10 must-read audiobook books like Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon

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Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

By: Paul Kenyon

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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2. The Balkans: A Short History

By: Mark Mazower

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and e… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Along The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story

By: None

4.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an a… read more

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4. A Winter Book

By: Tove Jansson

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Written with such a lightness of touch that it seems miraculous, these stories are a further revela… read more

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5. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

By: Tom Burgis

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth … read more

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6. In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

By: Robert D. Kaplan

2.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global… read more

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7. 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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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. 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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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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9. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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11. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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12. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • romania
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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15. 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
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"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

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16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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17. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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18. The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

By: Edward Shawcross

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into pow… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen

19. Budapest: Between East and West

By: Victor Sebestyen

4.29

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarot… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
Cover of Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan

20. Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

By: Robert D. Kaplan

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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21. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

By: Paul Kenyon

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more

Similar categories in Paul Kenyon's Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania book and Paul Kenyon's Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • research
  • world war ii
  • romania
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 20th century
  • audiobook

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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin

3.97

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The Balkans: A Short History

Mark Mazower

3.00

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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

4.39

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