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>>14888669
My first language is indeed German!
In case you speak that as well, I can recommend the German version of the book I mentioned (Chemie by Mortimer and Müller, I have the 12th edition) and Anorganische Chemie by Riedel and Janiak (I have the 9th edition). For inorganic chem history I also enjoy reading through the first section of each of the Gmelins Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie (8th edition, should be present in most university libraries. Huge series with several books on each of the elements and usually starts part A with a history section.) And actually old books shouldn't be underestimated either; I have a copy of Lehrbuch der Organischen Chemie by Fieser and Fieser (3rd edition 1957) which I enjoyed a lot as well. Of course, for modern mechanistic insights you should look to something like Organic Chemistry by Clayden but I wouldn't start with that one.