The Rise and Fall of Stalin
By: Robert Payne
4.08
Format: 907 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the story of modern history’s most treacherous and terrifying dictator. Stalin was a man o…
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1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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4. 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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5. He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary
By: Roger Moorhouse , Christa Schroeder
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rare and fascinating insight into Hitler's inner circle - Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing Hitl… read more
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6. The Nazi Murder Machine: 13 Portraits in Evil
By: Ben Stevens
5.00
Format: None pages,
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7. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
8. Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
By: David Stafford
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
But above all, it was cemented by shared enemies: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. On these foundat… read more
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9. The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
By: None
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi… read more
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10. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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11. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more
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12. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
By: Anderson Cooper
3.82
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestsell… read more
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13. The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist
By: Peter Tunstall
4.45
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
“A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeat… read more
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14. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
By: A.J. Baime
4.55
Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition
The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more
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"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
15. 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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16. The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome
By: Nick Holmes
4.30
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
It was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the… read more
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17. Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
By: James McMurtry Longo
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsbur… read more
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18. Trafalgar
By: Nicholas Best
4.51
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Two hundred years ago Napoleon Bonaparte planned to lead his Grande Armée to Britain, the only coun… read more
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19. The Black Death: An Enthralling Overview of a Major Event in the Middle Ages (Europe)
By: Billy Wellman
3.96
Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition
Boils, religion, and Living with the Black Death in the Middle AgesThe Black Death, also known as … read more
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20. The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower
By: Nick Holmes
4.25
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
WHY DID ROME FALL? In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, … read more
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21. The Seven Men of Spandau: The Last of the Hitler Gang (Hitler's Henchmen)
By: Jack Fishman
4.27
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The riveting story of what happened to the seven top Nazi war criminals in the aftermath of World W… read more
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22. Life After the Third Reich: The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins
By: Paul Roland
4.04
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamp… read more
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23. The World's Greatest Sea Mysteries (Real-Life Mysteries)
By: Michael Hardwick
3.69
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling collection of sea mysteries from around the world! Twenty-eight maritime stories told i… read more
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24. Nikita Khrushchev: A Life from Beginning to End (History of Russia)
By: Hourly History
4.21
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the remarkable life of Nikita Khrushchev...Free BONUS Inside!Nikita Khrushchev came to pow… read more
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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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26. The Rise and Fall of Stalin
By: Robert Payne
4.08
Format: 907 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the story of modern history’s most treacherous and terrifying dictator. Stalin was a man o… read more
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27. A Long Way to Auschwitz: A True Jewish Holocaust Survival Story of Cruelty, Courage, and Luck
By: Simon H. Kohavi
4.70
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
His road leads to the place of nightmares. But will that stop be his last?Hungary, 1939. Like most … read more
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28. The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War really ended
By: Nicholas Best
4.33
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
‘This volume sets an example that will be hard to equal’ - Daily Mail On the eleventh hour of the e… read more
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29. A Filthy Way to Die: Collected Memories of the Vietnam War
By: Ed Linz
4.39
Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition
The author, a retired Navy Commander, presents a unique view of the Vietnam War while providing an … read more
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30. Jefferson Davis: A Life from Beginning to End (American Civil War)
By: Hourly History
4.28
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the remarkable life of Jefferson Davis... Free BONUS Inside! Jefferson Davis—was he a rebe… read more
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31. Warlords: An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
By: Joanna Potts
4.40
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
WARLORDS recreates in forensic and gripping detail the extraordinary mind games between Churchill, … read more
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