Tank Men by Robert Kershaw is about armored warfare from World War I and II as seen by the tankers themselves. There's little varnish and the interviewees come across with a lot of emotion, good and bad, and as real people instead of cardboard caricatures.
The Most Powerful Idea In The World by William Rosen. The story of the invention of the steam engine (the machine itself, not necessarily the choo-choo sort), and the understanding of Steam Itself. While steampunk seems to have been beaten to death as of late, it's interesting focusing on that word's first syllable.
You Never Give Me Your Money - The Battle For The Soul Of The Beatles by Peter Doggett. The Fab Four after Brian Epstein's death and the upheavals involved, from the Apple Corps debacle, Yoko Ono, the Allen Klein/Eastman management battle, and they fought to be four individuals instead of one group.

Part 1: Early Years (I've read 8 of 14)
*The Twits, by Roald Dahl
Burglar Bill, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
*The Tiger Who Came To Tea, by Judith Kerr
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, by Beatrix Potter
Yertle the Turtle, by Dr Seuss
*Fungus the Bogeyman, by Raymond Briggs
The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None Of His Business, by Werner Holzwarth and Wolf Erlbruch
Room on the Broom, by Julia Donaldson
*The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
*The Cat in the Hat, by Dr Seuss
*Charlotte's Web, by EB White
*The Story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff
*Winnie-the-Pooh, by AA Milne, illustrated by EH Shepard

Part 2: Middle Years (I've read 31 of 48)
*Stig of the Dump, by Clive King
*Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfeild
*Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
*Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
*The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
Struwwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffman
*The Magic Faraway Tree, by Enid Blyton
*Danny, the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl
*George's Marvellous Medicine, by Roald Dahl
Underwater Adventure, by Willard Price
Tintin in Tibet, by Hergé
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Erik the Viking, by Terry Jones, illustrated by Michael Foreman
When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs
*Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by TS Eliot
*The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes
The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear
*The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
*The Worst Witch Collection, by Jill Murphy
*Peter Pan, by JM Barrie
*Mr Majeika, by Humphrey Carpenter
*The Water Babies, by Charles Kinglsey
*A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'm The King of the Castle, by Susan Hill
The Wave, by Morton Rhue
*Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
Bambert's Book of Missing Stories, by Reinhardt Jung
The Firework-maker's Daughter, by Philip Pullman
*Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce
*The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
The Silver Sword, by Ian Serrallier
Cue for Treason, by Geoffrey Trease
*The Sword in the Stone, by TH White
*A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K LeGuin
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by JK Rowling
*The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set, by CS Lewis
*His Dark Materials Box Set, by Philip Pullman
*The BFG, by Roald Dahl
*Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome
Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now, by Lauren Child
*The Railway Children, by E Nesbit
*The Selfish Giant, by Oscar Wilde
*Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
Just William, by Richmal Crompton
Jennings Goes to School, by Anthony Buckeridge
Comet in Moominland, by Tove Jansson
*The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket

Part 3: Early Teens (I've read 14 - and 4 halves - of 38)
*Call of the Wild, by Jack London
*Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
The Outsiders, by SE Hinton
I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
*(1/2) Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens - I read a kids' version
The Owl Service, by Alan Garner
*(1/2) The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle - read a kids' version
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
*(1/2) The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank - I started it.
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, by Mildred D Taylor
A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines
*The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien
*War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo
Beowulf, by Michael Morpurgo
*(1/2) King Solomon's Mines, by H Rider Haggard - I read a kids' version
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
*The Road of Bones, by Anne Fine
Frenchman's Creek, by Daphne Du Maurier
*Treasure Island, by RL Stevenson
*Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
*Anne of Green Gables, by L M Montgomery
Junk, by Melvin Burgess
Cider With Rosie, by Laurie Lee
The Go-Between by LP Hartley
The Rattle Bag, ed by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
The Song of Hiawatha, by H W Longfellow
*Watership Down, by Richard Adams
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
True Grit, by Charles Portis
*Holes, by Louis Sachar
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
*Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
*Carrie's War, by Nina Bawden
*The Story of Tracy Beaker, by Jacqueline Wilson
The Lantern Bearers, by Rosemary Sutcliffe

@Myro, if you have an I-phone, the first five books are on iBook for free.

Sadly, no. I'm an Android guy, so unless Amazon is making the same offer (which I doubt) for use on Kindle, I'm afraid that's not any help to me.

Also, I've already got the book, I just need to crack it open. I still like having actual paper books over e-books. So it doesn't make sense to get digital copies online when I can just read the book.

Still pretty amped, though.