These are books mentioned in my Smithsonian Journeys lectures on-board Regent Voyager, April 8-May 2, 2017.
SingaporeBooks
Singapore in Peace and War
Forgotten Armies, Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
The Honourable Company, John Keay
The Second World War, John Keegan
Decline and Fall of the British Empire, Piers Brendon
The Singapore and Melaka Straits, Peter Borchberg
Singapore: A Biography, Ravinder Frost and Yu_mei Balasingamchow
The Hinge of Fate, Winston Churchill
The Mutiny in Singapore, Sho Kuwajima
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanigan
RussoJapaneseBooks
Empires in Collision:
Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, Bruce Lincoln
Lords of the Horizon, Jason Goodwin
Napoleon III, A Life, Fenton Bresler
Victoria, the Queen, Julia Baird
The Making of Modern Japan, Maurius Jansen
The Tide at Sunrise, A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, Denis Warner and Peggy Warner
Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, Julian S. Corbett
A Much Recorded War, Frederic Sharf
EmbassyBooks
Embassy to the Eastern Courts
The Empire of Tea, Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
When America First Met China, Eric Jay Dolin
A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein
American Lion, Jon Meacham
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
Embassy to the Eastern Courts, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
KiplingBooks
Rudyard Kipling: Bard of Empire
Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997, Piers Brendon
Indian Summer, Alex von Tunzelmann
Empire, Neil Ferguson
The Great Mutiny: India 1857, Christopher Hibbert
India, John Keay
A Circle of Sisters, Judith Flanders
Rudyard Kipling: Something of Myself, edited Thomas Pinney
MappingandExplorationBooks
European Exploration and Mapping South East Asia
The Fourth Part of the World, Toby Lester
Empire of Cotton, Sven Beckert
The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
Batavia’s Graveyard, Mike Dash
DiseaseBooks
Disease in History
The Great Mortality, John Kelly
The Great Influenza, John M. Barry
The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
Flu, Gina Kolata
The American Plague, Molly Caldwell Crosby
The Cholera Years, Charles E. Rosenberg
Disease in History, Frederick F. Cartwright
Epidemics in History, Sheldon Watts
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Roy Porter
Death in Hamburg, Richard J. Evans
The Other Slavery, Andres Resendez
ZhengHeBooks
The Ocean Cruises of Admiral Zheng He and China’s Navy Today
Early Mapping of the Pacific, Thomas Suartz
When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes
1421 The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies
1434, Gavin Menzies
WWIIPart1Books
Why We Fought: Propaganda and World War II (Part 1)
Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton
Hitlerland, Andrew Nagorski
Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman
The Sleepwalkers, Christopher Clark
1913, Charles Emmerson
To Hell and Back, Ian Kershaw
The Russian Origins of the First World War, Sean McMeekin
The War that Ended Peace, Margaret MacMillian
Catasrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Max Hastings
The Ottoman Endgame, Sean McMeekin
Speer: Hitler’s Architect, Martin Kitchen
Dietrich and Riefenstahl, Karin Wieland
The Man in the High Castle, Phillip K. Dick
Hell’s Foundation, Geoffrey Moorhouse
WWIIPartIIBooks
Why We Fought: Propaganda and World War II (Part II)
Hell to Pay, D.M. Giangreco
Pacific Crucible, Ian W. Toll
The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll
Stillwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45, Barbara W. Tuchman
American Caesar, William Manchester
Bankrupting the Enemy, Edward S. Miller
The Battle of Midway, Craig L. Symonds
In Command of History, David Reynolds
Japan 1941, Eri Hotta
ChokePointsBooks
Maritime Chokepoints and Strategic Waters
The Middle Sea, John Julius Norwich
The Great Sea, David Abulafia
The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough
Pacific, Simon Winchester
The Mortal Sea, W. Jeffrey Bolster
Parting the Desert, Zachary Karabell
The Sea and Civilization, Lincoln Paine
Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
Gallipoli, Peter FitzSimons
EarhartBooks
Amelia Earhart
The Fun of It, Amelia Earhart
Last Flight, Amelia Earhart
World Flight, Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart, John Parlin
Amelia Earhart, the Mystery Solved, Marie K. Long and Elgen M. Long
Amelia Earhart, The Thrill of It, Susan Wels
Amelia Earhart’s Shoes, Thomas F. King and Randall Jacobson
Earhart Lives, Joe Klaas
The Search for Amelia Earhart, Fred Goerner
BlighBooks
Captain Bligh and HMS Bounty
The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language, Greg Dening
The Bounty Mutiny, William Bligh and Edward Christian
The Gathering Wind, Gregory A. Freeman
Lost Paradise, Kathy Marks
MajorThemesBooks
Major Themes in History
Collapse, Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Study of History, Arnold J. Toynbee
Clash of Civilizations, Remaking of World Order, Samuel Pl Huntington
The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama