D-Day: The Soldiers' Story
By: Giles Milton
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis…
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1. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
2. The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (The Drenai Saga, #6)
By: David Gemmell
4.36
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
He was known as Druss. The Deathwalker. Though the blood of merciless butchers coursed through his … read more
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"If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"-David Gemmell, The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (The Drenai Saga, #6)
"«Con te sono ancora il ragazzo di campagna che si è presentato sotto la Grande Quercia con la donna più bella di tutte le terre drenai.» «Non sono mai stata bella» ribatté Rowena «ma mi fa piacere se…"-David Gemmell, The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (The Drenai Saga, #6)
"Fra tutti i dolori che ho conosciuto non ce n’è mai stato nessuno grande come la sofferenza di sapere che esso sarà senza di me, e tuttavia ti ho amata e non cambierei un solo giorno. E se per qualch…"-David Gemmell, The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (The Drenai Saga, #6)
3. Munich
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more
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- world war ii
- historical
- war
4. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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- history
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
5. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Pompeii
By: Robert Harris
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disast… read more
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- historical
7. The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943
By: Lloyd Clark
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk--on the… read more
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- world war ii
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8. When the Lion Feeds (Courtney, #1)
By: Wilbur Smith
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part of the 'Courtney' series 'Something always dies when the lion feeds and yet there is meat for … read more
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9. A Colder War (Thomas Kell, #2)
By: Charles Cumming
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A COLDER WAR, Cumming returns with MI6 agent Tom Kell (A Foreign Country), in a tour de force that … read more
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10. The Last Battle
By: Cornelius Ryan
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was … read more
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11. Enigma
By: Robert Harris
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A gripping World War II mystery novel with a cryptographic twist, Enigma's hero is Tom Jericho, a b… read more
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12. The Constant Gardener
By: John Le Carré
3.82
Format: 482 pages, Paperback
Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of… read more
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"He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
"Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
"You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
"I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatter…"-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
13. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
14. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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- historical
15. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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- nonfiction
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16. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more
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17. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
18. Why We Kneel, How We Rise
By: Michael Holding
4.47
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Through the prism of sport and conversations with its legends, including Usain Bolt, Adam Goodes, T… read more
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19. V2: A Novel of World War II
By: Robert Harris
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more
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20. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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- historical
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- world war ii
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21. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
By: James Holland
4.45
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more
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22. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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23. D-Day: The Soldiers' Story
By: Giles Milton
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis… read more
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24. Travellers in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more
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"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
25. Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
By: Jonathan Dimbleby
4.35
Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition
Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of… read more
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26. Harrier 809: The Epic Story of How a Small Band of Heroes Won Victory in the Air Against Impossible Odds
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4.41
Format: 630 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A COMPELLING, FAST-PACED NARRATIVE THAT THRUSTS US INTO THE COCKPIT. A MUST-READ!’ Dan HamptonApri… read more
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27. The Accidental Footballer
By: Pat Nevin
4.10
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Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teac… read more
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28. Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner
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4.54
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
October 24th 2023 will mark 20 years since Concorde disappeared from our skies. Yet still Mike Bann… read more
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29. 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain
By: Quentin Letts
3.09
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludi… read more
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30. The History of the SAS
By: Chris Ryan
4.32
Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition
'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of… read more
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31. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
By: Sasha Swire
3.47
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What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more
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