If you like history, Barbara Tuchman has a writing style that helps make it interesting.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th century. Focuses mainly on France and England during the Hundred years War and the Black Death, but touches on other nations as well
The Proud Tower. About the state of Europe and parts of the world in the years leading up to WWI. a very nice look into how things were seething below the surface of what appeared to be a golden age.
The Guns of August. About the first few months of WWI, from before the declarations of war right up to the Battle of the Marne.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th century. Focuses mainly on France and England during the Hundred years War and the Black Death, but touches on other nations as well
The Proud Tower. About the state of Europe and parts of the world in the years leading up to WWI. a very nice look into how things were seething below the surface of what appeared to be a golden age.
The Guns of August. About the first few months of WWI, from before the declarations of war right up to the Battle of the Marne.