sorry for the extra post but for an in depth history of Wallachia, and eastern Europe from the late 1400's as well as the man known as vald the implaer, I would suggest Vlad the Impaler, Its old, so your library probably has it.
Theres also a great book called the timtables of hsitory,
and for a fictionalized version of the space race get, Space by james Michener.
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