"Probabilities of the Quantum World" - Daniel Danin

This Mir publication book is one of the first books I read about Quantum Physics outside the curriculum. This book is exactly as I like it... a combination of history and quantum physics.
This book is about the Odyssey of the modern physics. The author starts off with an attempt to obtain as many resources as possible, at a time when most of the torchbearers of modern physics were leaving this each on their heavenly abode. He starts of with visiting archives, meeting the remaining war-lords (I mean those who were the fore runners in making the theory of the sub- atomic world.)
The author of the book has a very different narration style, he starts with the need for a documenting the experiences of the great people who had started this race, and why it was already late for them to start...
The book greets us with a lot of anecdotes from the lives of these great men, making the journey all the more interesting.... The various people who started off this journey, what their individual thoughts were, how the interacted with each other, the various situations that got them to think in the way they thought to make a theory and much more... all these keep the interest on the high throughout.
Its starts of slowly not revealing much in the beginning, but as it goes on the story of the quantum theory's birth keeps us engaged through out.
If you are a little patient to see through the first part of this book, its a wonderful book to read. Very informative... Go ahead and try out...