Gorbachev: His Life and Times
By: William Taubman
4.28
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie…
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1. Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
By: None , Christopher Andrew
4.53
Format: None pages,
To mark the centenary of its foundation, MI5 opened its archives for the 1st time to an independent… read more
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2. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
By: Masha Gessen
4.19
Format: 515 pages, Hardcover
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of … read more
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"...But reason was helpless against demagogy."-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely."-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may h…"-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about God, power, and human life. After fifty years of purges, ar…"-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
3. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
4. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
By: Daniel Gordis
4.31
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more
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5. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
6. Young Stalin
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Young Stalintells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, of doubtful p… read more
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7. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
8. Eisenhower in War and Peace
By: Jean Edward Smith
4.06
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-DispatchIn… read more
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"Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
9. Vietnam: A New History
By: Christopher E. Goscha
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A 2017 Cundill History Prize Finalist "Groundbreaking...Goscha has provided quite simply the finest… read more
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10. The Man Who Would Be King
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
"My gord, Carnehan," says Daniel, "This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as… read more
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11. Dispatches
By: Michael Herr
4.22
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more
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"for years now there had been no country here but the war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
12. The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
By: None
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
A highly original narrative history by The Economist'sMoscow bureau chief that does for modern Russ… read more
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13. 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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14. Goodbye to All That
By: Robert Graves
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society foll… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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"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
18. Watergate: A New History
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.49
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
From Garrett Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more
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19. Gorbachev: His Life and Times
By: William Taubman
4.28
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie… read more
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20. George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
By: David L. Roll
4.45
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall—America’s most distinguished soldier–statesman … read more
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21. Putin: His Life and Times
By: Philip Short
4.32
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more
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