18 best-selling history books like Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim Marshall

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Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

By: Tim Marshall

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr…

If you liked the history plot in Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim Marshall , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt

By: Julian Borger

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The gripping, untold story of The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and how… read more

Similar categories in Julian Borger's The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt book and Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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2. The Fall of Yugoslavia

By: Misha Glenny

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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3. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East

By: James Barr

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers - including T.E. Lawrence, Win… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Logavina Street: Life And Death In A Sarajevo Neighborhood by Barbara Demick, John Edmond Costello

5. Logavina Street: Life And Death In A Sarajevo Neighborhood

By: Barbara Demick , John Edmond Costello

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, i… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

6. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

By: Robert D. Kaplan

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croa… read more

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7. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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8. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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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11. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.58

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • audiobook
"Schoolkinderen worden snel groot (sneller dan wij volgens de krantenberichten), en ze moeten onze wereld gaan begrijpen. Lezen is een manier om de volgende generatie te helpen om te leren en te denke…"

-Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

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12. Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country

By: John Kampfner

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and entertaining exploration of the country that Britons love to hate by one of our m… read more

Similar categories in John Kampfner's Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country book and Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game by The Rebel Accountant

13. Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game

By: The Rebel Accountant

4.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax … read more

Similar categories in The Rebel Accountant's Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game book and Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works by Dharshini David

14. The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works

By: Dharshini David

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered why we can afford to buy far more clothes than our grandparents ever could .… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • audiobook
"Money may not buy happiness but it does buy choice."

-Dharshini David, The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works

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15. Journeys to Impossible Places

By: Simon Reeve

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life. In Journeys to Impossible Pl… read more

Similar categories in Simon Reeve's Journeys to Impossible Places book and Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Travellers in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

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17. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

By: Philippe Sands

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • audiobook
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"

-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

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18. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

By: Tim Marshall

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War book and Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • geography
  • audiobook
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19. Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East

By: James Barr

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of how the U.S. supplanted Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Mi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia

20. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

By: David Abulafia

4.23

Format: 1088 pages, Hardcover

A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the aw… read more

Similar categories in David Abulafia's The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans book and Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

  • geography
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow by Klaus Dodds

21. Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow

By: Klaus Dodds

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Can Donald Trump really build that wall? What does Brexit mean for Ireland’s border? And what would… read more

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  • politics
  • geography
  • history
  • nonfiction

13 Top audiobook books like Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim Marshall

Transform Your Habits

The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt

Julian Borger

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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17 best-selling audiobook books like Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game by The Rebel Accountant

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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