11 must-read nonfiction books like Mine Were of Trouble by Peter Kemp

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Mine Were of Trouble

By: Peter Kemp

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Spain, 1936. Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Milita…

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1. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By: Antony Beevor

3.91

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 book and Peter Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble

  • spanish civil war
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • spain
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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2. The Forgotten Soldier

By: Guy Sajer

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Forgotten Soldier  recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the ey… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

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3. On the Marble Cliffs

By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger

3.80

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more

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"The downfall of order brings good to none."

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

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4. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
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5. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

By: Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Hardcover

Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absol… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola , None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects

By: Weston A. Price

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destru… read more

Similar categories in Weston A. Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects book and Peter Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble

  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

By: James Burnham

4.31

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social…"

-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

"Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are th…"

-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

"Formally, a new election for an office many be held every year or two. But, in practice, the moere fact that an invidual has held the office in the past is thought by him and by the members to give h…"

-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

9. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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10. The Captive Mind

By: Czesław Miłosz

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz… read more

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11. A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War

By: Thomas Fleming

3.88

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, Northern abolitionis… read more

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12. Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad

By: Gordon Thomas

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, the Mossad has been responsible for th… read more

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13. For My Legionaries

By: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

4.19

Format: 496 pages,

This is an autobiographical book in which Corneliu Zelea Codreanu expressed his political and spiri… read more

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14. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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15. The Conquest of New Spain

By: Bernal Díaz del Castillo , John Michael Cohen

3.67

Format: 542 pages,

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16. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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17. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

Similar categories in Bronze Age Pervert's Bronze Age Mindset book and Peter Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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18. Gothic Violence

By: Mike Ma

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

GOTHIC VIOLENCE is a fictional dark comedy by author, Mike Ma. Though is a continuation of the firs… read more

Similar categories in Mike Ma's Gothic Violence book and Peter Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble

  • politics
"I spend every day of my life arguing with myself. Inside of my head, arguing with my own thoughts. Full conversations with resolutions, agreements, new outcomes."

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"The longer you stay up past sunset, the darker your thoughts may become. Waves of regret, of loneliness, of fear. All-nighters, unless navigated in a specific way, can lead one to suicide by sunset."

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"Technology is not new. If you were to go back, before or around the life of Christ, you would see wars fought with energy weapons and colossal machines. You would see angels in a military fashion wit…"

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"Amadeus Mozart, Adolf Hitler, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were all born in Austria. Not very far from one another. How does a country produce these three men in just under two centuries time? Who will …"

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

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19. Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel

By: Pyotr Wrangel

4.48

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Russia, 1917. As World War I drags on, political turmoil slowly paralyzes the Empire. The Czar abdi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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20. Mine Were of Trouble

By: Peter Kemp

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Spain, 1936. Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Milita… read more

Similar categories in Peter Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble book and Peter Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble

  • spanish civil war
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • spain
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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21. Can Life Prevail?

By: Pentti Linkola

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Softcover

With the train of civilisation hurtling at ever-increasing speed towards self-destruction, the most… read more

Similar categories in Pentti Linkola's Can Life Prevail? book and Peter Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble

  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Jos kansan ääntä kuunnellaan, ei toivoa ole. Demokratia on kuoleman uskonto."

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Every example throughout the history of humanity shows that only deprivation and struggle create a human life worthy of the name"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Machines, however, were already looming upon us and were soon destined to strike at the heart of the wilderness — and elsewhere as well — depriving man of all he deserved: mighty labour, effort and s…"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Every individual who walks, runs, rides bikes, swims, rows, paddles, skis, shovels or hoes is setting up a line of defence against the mad onslaught of machines; if he is a parent, grandparent, teach…"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

10 best-selling history books like Mine Were of Trouble by Peter Kemp

Transform Your Habits

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Antony Beevor

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Forgotten Soldier

Guy Sajer

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

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13 best-selling history books like Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert

Transform Your Habits

Democracy: The God That Failed

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Oswald Spengler

3.83

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