Sub Rosa: The O. S. S. and American Espionage
By: Stewart Alsop
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America’s precursor to the CIA, and its se…
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1. Brave Companions: Portraits in History
By: David McCullough
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780671792763 From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Li… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
"…the little known events of a given time, and people who are not in the headlines can be what matters most in the long run – and the long run is the measure of history."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"Mainly, writing means a good deal of hard thinking … yet sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"The problem, as Thornton Wilder said, lies in the effort to employ the past tense in such a way that it does not rob those events of their character of having occurred in freedom."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"In writing history, to catch the feeling and well as the truth of other times, it is of utmost importance … to convey the sense that things need not have happened as they did…the past, after all, is …"-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
2. The Intercept (Jeremy Fisk, #1)
By: Dick Wolf
3.87
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
Days before the July Fourth holiday and the dedication of One World Trade Center at Ground Zero, an… read more
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3. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more
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"Perhaps thought really is prayer."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
5. The Collapse of the Third Republic
By: William L. Shirer
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On June 17, 1940 William L. Shirer stood in the streets of Paris and watched the unending flow of g… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
6. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt
By: William L. Shirer
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. The Second World War
By: Antony Beevor
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier hist… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. Three Days in January
By: Bret Baier
4.33
Format: 48 pages, ebook
The blockbuster #1 national bestseller Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
9. A Place Called Freedom
By: Ken Follett
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, tw… read more
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10. Stay the Rising Sun: The True Story of USS Lexington, Her Valiant Crew, and Changing the Course of World War II
By: Phil Keith
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
2016 Military Writers Society of America Bronze Medal Winner! Her crew called her the "Lady Lex" - … read more
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12. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos
4.36
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
13. Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
By: Ken Burns , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World Wa… read more
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14. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.04
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic pas… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now i…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much m…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...that the holocaust is so big, the scale of it is so gigantic, so enormous that it becomes easy to think of it as something mechanical. Anonymous. But everything that happened, happened because som…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"And so the picture that I showed her that Sunday, a picture I'd seen countless times since I was a boy, brought home to me for the first time the strangeness of my relationship to the people I was in…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
15. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more
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- espionage
- history
- nonfiction
16. Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
By: Ellis Peters
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
In the twelfth century, merchants gather at a summertime fair—but when one of them is found dead in… read more
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"Child, [death] is with us always,"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
"There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings a…"-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
17. A Sherlock Holmes Alphabet of Cases: Volume 4 (P-T)
By: Roger Riccard
4.38
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Roger Riccard, one of the most respected Sherlock Holmes pastiche authors, presents the fourth of f… read more
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18. America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)
By: Charles Whiting
4.25
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthralling account of the World War Two exploits of the U.S. Seventh Army, from Sicily to Franc… read more
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- nonfiction
19. My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
By: Selma van de Perre
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance figh… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II
By: Harry H. Crosby
4.58
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
21. The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
By: Christopher C. Gorham
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. How to Survive in Medieval England
By: Toni Mount
4.09
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Wi… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Bletchley Park and D-Day: The Untold Story of How the Battle for Normandy Was Won
By: David Kenyon
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has beco… read more
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- espionage
- history
- nonfiction
24. 1939: The World We Left Behind
By: Robert Kee
4.07
Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition
History is based on choices, not truth. The way we see things now is not always how they looked at … read more
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- history
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25. The Fleet That Had To Die
By: Richard Hough
4.09
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
By autumn 1904, the Russo-Japanese war had been raging for six months. Routed in Manchuria, the Rus… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Sub Rosa: The O. S. S. and American Espionage
By: Stewart Alsop
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America’s precursor to the CIA, and its se… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
27. Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
By: Frederick F. Cartwright
3.87
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
A newly updated edition of a classic in the history of medicine with information on Covid-19. Arisi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. A Sherlock Holmes Alphabet of Cases: Volume 5 (U-Z)
By: Roger Riccard
4.46
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Roger Riccard, one of the most respected Sherlock Holmes pastiche authors, has again taken pen in h… read more
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29. War Beneath the Sea: Submarine conflict during World War II (Peter Padfield Naval History)
By: Peter Padfield
4.20
Format: 653 pages, Kindle Edition
The first book to cover all the major submarine campaigns during World War II, "War Beneath the Sea… read more
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- nonfiction
30. THE MIGHTY ENDEAVOR American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II (World War II Army Histories)
By: Charles B. MacDonald
4.40
Format: 685 pages, Kindle Edition
THE ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF US INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR II.Exploring the friction between American and… read more
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31. Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War
By: Ray Ellis
4.50
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
This WWII memoir offers a vivid chronicle of combat in Egypt with the 107th Royal Horse Artillery a… read more
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