The following list does not pretend to be comprehensive. These are works that I have found personally useful and that I would recommend to Ukrainian Catholic parishioners. Some are popular, some academic, most in-between. I hope to supplement this list from time to time. A separate list for works in Ukrainian is planned.
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I. GENERAL CHRISTIAN HISTORY

Chadwick, Owen, general editor. The Pelican History of the Church. 6 volumes by various prominent authors. (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK: 1967--)

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700). Vol. 2 of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1974) This is an academic work. If you want to know the arguments pro and con on the filioque, this book is for you.

II. HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Holmes, J. Derek and Bernard W. Bickers. A Short History of the Catholic Church (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK: Burns and Oates, 1983)

III. GENERAL UKRAINIAN CHURCH HISTORY

Plokhy, Serhii and Frank E. Sysyn. Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine (Edmonton and Toronto: CIUS Press, 2003) Written by two prominent specialists in Ukrainian religious and cultural history - one originally from Ukraine, the other from New Jersey - most of these essays are devoted to the Orthodox Church in the twentieth century.

Senyk, Sophia. A History of the Church in Ukaine. Vol. I To the End of the Thirteenth Century (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1993). Orientalia Christiana Analecta 243. A gracefully written, balanced account. Three more volumes were planned.

IV SPECIFIC TOPICS IN UKRAINIAN CHURCH HISTORY

Bociurkiw, Bohdan. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939-1950)(Edmonton and Toronto: CIUS Press, 1996) Though a political scientist, Professor Bociurkiw was probably the best historian of the modern Ukrainian churches of his generation. This work covers, among other things, the infamous 1946 pseudo-council of L'viv.

Gudziak, Borys A. Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (Cambridge, Mass.: HURI, 1998) A Harvard Ph.D, Fr. Gudziak is now rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in L'viv.

Korolevsky, Cyril. Metropolitan Andrew (1865-1944). Translated and revised by Serge Keleher. (L'viv: Stauropegion, 1993) Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi was both the religious and the civic leader of the stateless Western Ukrainians between 1900 and 1944. The French priest Cyril Korolevsky (Jean Charon) also wrote a most perceptive essay on Uniatism, included here in Appendix II.

Tataryn, Myroslaw. Christian Churches in the New Ukraine (Saskatoon: Heritage Press, 1996?) This is the 1996 Mohyla Lecture given at the University of Saskatchewan. Less than 50 pages long.

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