And the Kaiser Abdicates... a first-hand account of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 by S. Miles Bouton (1920).

New York by Theodore Roosevelt (1891). Not as longwinded as some his works (such as Gouvernor Morris or Thomas Hart Benton) but it's still got that late 19th Century decaratory style that requires a bit of a buzz before reading.

If I get to it I'd really like to tackle Shelby Foote's The Civil War, a Narrative. (3 vols. 1958-1974.) Foote was the Southern gentleman featured in Ken Burns' documentary The Civil War.