China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the…
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1. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
By: Leslie T. Chang
3.77
Format: None pages,
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2. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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3. 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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4. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
5. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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6. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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7. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
10. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
By: Christopher F. Rufo
4.30
Format: 352 pages, ebook
For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after t… read more
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"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
11. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
By: Rush Doshi
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more
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12. Korea: A New History of South and North
By: Victor Cha
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day … read more
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13. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more
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14. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
By: Keyu Jin
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more
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15. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
By: Chun Han Wong
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more
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16. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
By: Sung-Yoon Lee
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The onset of Covid-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in N… read more
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17. The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By: Yang Jisheng
4.01
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, i… read more
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"It was the fundamental appraisal that the world had transitioned from the 'age of war and revolution' to the 'age of peace and development' that allowed China to make a fresh start on its domestic an…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"In China under the power market economic system, the ability to succeed in anything depends on relationships with key power-holders. The process of selling official positions and titles has formed a …"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"On February 28, 1972, the Sino-U.S. Shanghai Communiqué was issued. It said, 'The United States believes that the effort to reduce tensions is served by improving communication between countries that…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"Minister of Public Security Xie Fuzhi approved an infantile demand by the Red Guards that traffic police replace their batons with Quotations of Chairman Mao, claiming that only Mao Zedong Thought co…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
18. The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A concise, definitive history of the duel between the US and China over the fate of Taiwan As ten… read more
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19. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
By: Susan L. Shirk
4.11
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed… read more
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20. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
By: Dmitri Alperovitch
4.34
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a f… read more
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