Recently I finished D: Heavy Water by Neal Stephenson and I absolutely loved it. George Weightman does a marvelous job on the audio version. This is not a review of the book, but in the epilogue there is quite the list of books that helped make this book happen. I have gathered them here.

• The Leicestershires Beyond Baghdad by Edward John Thompson
• The Education of a True Believer by Lev Kopelev
• My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman
• The Whisperers by Orlanda Figes’s
• Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick
• The Wobblies by Patrick Renshaw
• Handbook of the Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare by Alexander Orlov
• Handbook for Spies by Alexander Foote
• Special Tasks by Pavel Sudoplatov
• Winter in Moscow by Malcom Muggeridge
• Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
• Stalin’s Apologist by S.J. Taylor
• Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization by Stephen Kotkin
• Behind the Urals: An American Working in Russia’s City of Steel by John Scott
• The Siege at Peking by Peter Flemming
• Brazilian Adventure by Peter Flemming
• Operation Sea Lion by Peter Flemming
• The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
• The Battle for Spain by Anthony Beevor
• The Popular Front and the Barcelona 1936 Popular Olympics by James Stout
• Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser
• Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• The Physics of the Manhattan Project by B. Cameron Reed
• Discovery of the Elements by Mary Elvira Weeks
• The Bomb: Oppenheimer and the Weapon That Changed the World by Didier Alcante, Laurent-Frédéric Bollée, Denis Rodier