The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
By: Colin Jones
4.19
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the h…
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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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"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
2. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
3. 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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"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
4. The Pickwick Papers
By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more
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5. The Dog of the South
By: Charles Portis
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more
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6. Life and Fate
By: Vasily Grossman , Robert Chandler
4.09
Format: 156 pages,
Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnik… read more
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7. A Place of Greater Safety
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danto… read more
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8. A Sea of Troubles (Commissario Brunetti, #10)
By: Donna Leon
4.40
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian l… read more
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9. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.21
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America'… read more
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10. Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
By: Ruth Scurr
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain f… read more
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11. The Voyeur's Motel
By: Gay Talese
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife… read more
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12. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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13. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
By: Simon Schama
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Instead of a dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital & inventive, infatuated … read more
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14. 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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15. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
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"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
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. 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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18. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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19. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
By: David I. Kertzer
4.28
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church… read more
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20. 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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"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
21. 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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22. 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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23. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
By: Richard Norton Smith
4.46
Format: 992 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more
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24. 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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25. The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
By: Colin Jones
4.19
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the h… read more
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26. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Rachel Chrastil
3.84
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more
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27. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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28. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.42
Format: 887 pages, Hardcover
In six weeks in 1940, France's armies were decisively beaten by Germany. A junior French general, r… read more
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29. Athens: City of Wisdom
By: Bruce Zee Clark
3.95
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western ci… read more
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30. The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922
By: Ryan Gingeras
3.93
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 19… read more
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