1. The Battle of Alamein
   Turning Point, World War II
   Resource Type: Book
   An account of the desert war that began with the Italian invasion of Egypt in September 1940 and ended with the surrender of Axis forces in Tunis in May 1943. "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel and the English Lieutenant General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery are the pivotal actors in the story.
   
2. The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   
3. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1969
   A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
4. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   
5. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1978
   
6. A People's History of the World
   From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
7. The Scramble for Africa
   White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
   
8. The Slave Trade
   The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
   
9. Year 501
   The Conquest Continues
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1993
   An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on Africa/History in the Sources Directory

1. ibiblio.org
2. Linden-Museum Stuttgart