A list or various books that I recommend.

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam

The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon

Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G. J. Meyer

Rembrandt’s Eyes by Simon Schama

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King

India: A History by John Keay

China: A History by John Keay

Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich

May not be exactly what you’re looking for but Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War by Richard A. Serrano may still be of interest.

King Leopold’s Ghost is more African history than Belgian history but it still may be of interest.

Hmmmm, maybe Roman Art by Donald Strong and Roman Art and Architecture by Mortimer Wheeler?