the best book I read on the history of the end of 19th and beginning of 20th centuries:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00INIXPYE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Prof Kotkin is a professor at Princeton.
Definitely Princeton (I'd recommend Yale as well since Timothy Snyder is there, but Kotkin is my hero)