16 must-read history books like The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

By: Patrick Wyman

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive…

If you liked the history plot in The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Thirty Years War

By: Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood

4.18

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid."

-Anthony Grafton, The Thirty Years War

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2. The Collapse of the Third Republic

By: William L. Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

On June 17, 1940 William L. Shirer stood in the streets of Paris and watched the unending flow of g… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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3. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

By: Rick Perlstein

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

4. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

By: Peter H. Wilson

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history

5. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

By: Rick Perlstein

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous … read more

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6. Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire

By: James Romm

3.33

Format: None pages,

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7. Pax Romana

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Hardcover

For much of its thousand year history, Rome was an invincible power protected by the most formidabl… read more

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8. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

By: Adam Tooze

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more

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9. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

By: Mike Duncan

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more

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10. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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12. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

By: Mike Duncan

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

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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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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16. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.00

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."

-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

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17. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By: Jeremy D. Popkin

4.21

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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18. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele

3.65

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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19. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

By: Marc David Baer

3.95

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

20. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

By: Patrick Wyman

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Wyman's The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World book and Patrick Wyman's The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

  • biography
  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy by Philip Freeman

21. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy

By: Philip Freeman

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Han… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook

12 Best audiobook books like The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

Transform Your Habits

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Mike Duncan

4.52

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

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11 Top audiobook books like Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

Transform Your Habits

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin

4.29

Transform Your Habits

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

4.37

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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

Rick Perlstein

4.34

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Watergate: A New History

Garrett M. Graff

4.49

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