Below I’ll give you my selections for the best True History books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
- True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel (2001)
- The True History of Allah and His 5%: The Greatest Story Never Told by the Gods & Earths Who Were There! (2019)
- The True History of Chocolate (2013)
- English History: Strange but True (2017)
- The True History of The Conquest of New Spain (Hackett Classics) (2012)
- True Crime Case Histories – Volume 2: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories (True Crime Collection) (2019)
- Scottish History (Strange but True) (2019)
- The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History (2007)
- The Ten Tribes of Israel: Or the True History of the North American Indians (2018)
- H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil (2019)
- The Congress of the United States (A True Book: American History) (2008)
- A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (Hackett Classics) (2011)
- Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True (2018)
True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel (2001)
“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”In , the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police.
The True History of Allah and His 5%: The Greatest Story Never Told by the Gods & Earths Who Were There! (2019)
This book is based on the true history of Allah “the Father” and his great Nation of Gods and Earths known as the Five Percenters. This is the greatest story that was never told by the Gods and the Earths during their younger years with Allah “the Father” from 1964 up until the time of his assassination on June 13, 1969. It was a time of struggle for the black man, woman, and child.
The True History of Chocolate (2013)
“A beautifully written . . . and illustrated history of the Food of the Gods, from the Olmecs to present-day developments.”―Chocolatier This delightful tale of one of the world’s favorite foods draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate.
English History: Strange but True (2017)
One of Henry VII’s most prized possessions was the preserved leg of St. George. In February, 1789, George III pursued a bestselling lady novelist in a high-speed chase through Kew Gardens. When Henry IV’s tomb was opened, his beard was found to be "thick and matted, and of a deep russet colour." This book contains hundreds of "strange but true" facts and anecdotes about English history.
The True History of The Conquest of New Spain (Hackett Classics) (2012)
This rugged new translation–the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS–allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and frequent cruelty of Hernando Cortes and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezuma’s Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New World.The concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins,…
True Crime Case Histories – Volume 2: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories (True Crime Collection) (2019)
12 True Crime Stories of Murder & MayhemSecond Book of the True Crime Case Histories Series (2019)As with volume one, a quick word of warning. The stories you are about to read are brutally gruesome. They represent humanity at its worst.
Scottish History (Strange but True) (2019)
An ancient Scots law says that the head of any dead whale found on the Scottish coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail the property of the queen. The Scots excel at elephant polo, a game usually played in the East. The modern game was co-founded in the 1980s in Scotland, and the Scots are top of the leader board!
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History (2007)
The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
The Ten Tribes of Israel: Or the True History of the North American Indians (2018)
The compiler Timothy Jenkins in his 1883 book “The Ten Tribes of Israel” gathers together a vast array of different facts, stories, legends, anecdotes, archaeological discoveries, language comparisons, etc., from a vast array of different sources to support the claim first propounded by the educated Cherokee that the American Indians are descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil (2019)
Here is the horrific true tale of America’s first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, now updated with a new afterword discussing Holmes’ exhumation on American Ripper.H. H. Holmes is the first comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America’s great supervillains.
The Congress of the United States (A True Book: American History) (2008)
A True Book: American History series allows readers to experience the earliest moments in American history and to discover how these moments helped shape the country that it is today.
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (Hackett Classics) (2011)
Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex.
Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True (2018)
Stories from Texas
Best True History Books Worth Your Attention
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The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History
Author(s): Lee Smith
ID: 2432863, Publisher: Center Street, Year: 29 Oct 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
Author(s): Gordon H. Shufelt
ID: 2954855, Publisher: The Kent State University Press, Year: 2021, Size: 1 Mb, Format: pdf
A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism
Author(s): Daniel A. Sjursen
ID: 2999735, Publisher: Steerforth Press, Year: 2021, Size: 18 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are absolutely hot items according to Los Angeles Times, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.