Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941
By: Stephen Kotkin
4.45
Format: 1184 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectiv…
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1. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- history
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
2. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
By: Adam Tooze
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more
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3. Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939
By: Don Hagen , Volker Ullrich
4.43
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A major new biography-an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personifica… read more
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"Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would ha…"-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939
"Hitler's unusually improvisational and personal style of leadership, which created constant responsibility conflicts and an anarchic tangle of offices and portfolios, was anything but an expression o…"-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939
4. Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)
By: Ian Kershaw
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Re… read more
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- history
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
5. The Last Lion 3: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (The Last Lion, #3)
By: William Manchester , Paul Reid
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
Spanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lionpicks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime… read more
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6. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- war
7. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
By: Ruth Benedict
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and eco… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
By: Nora Seligman Favorov , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin… read more
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9. Hitler
By: Ian Kershaw
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitleris a new… read more
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10. Mao: The Unknown Story
By: Jung Chang , Jon Halliday
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on… read more
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11. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more
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12. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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13. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- history
- biography
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- european history
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
14. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- history
- biography
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15. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
By: Rick Perlstein
4.34
Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover
A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more
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16. France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
By: John Julius Norwich
3.97
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of Frenc… read more
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"With the Roman Empire effectively gone (...) Gaul disintegrated into a mass of small barbarian states under so-called kings, dukes, and counts. As we know however, nature abhors a vacuum, sooner or l…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"In 1870, the throne was offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Had the Prince rejected the offer at once, there might have been no Franco-Prussian war, and Napoleon III might have end…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"Martyrs were innumerable, among them, Saint Denis, 3rd century bishop of Paris, who, when beheaded, calmly picked up his severed head and walked several miles to the site of the abbey that bears his …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"[The Gauls] were carnivores through and through and they loved fighting. Their horsemanship probably outclassed even that of the Romans and, though they lacked the more sophisticated Roman weaponry, …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
17. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more
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"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
18. Lenin the Dictator
By: Victor Sebestyen
4.25
Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition
'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An e… read more
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"In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours."-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
"If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die..."-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
"The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democra…"-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
19. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- history
20. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941
By: Stephen Kotkin
4.45
Format: 1184 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
- russian history
21. Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45
By: Volker Ullrich
4.60
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated their autho… read more
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