1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War
By: Frederick Taylor
3.91
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful …
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1. Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
By: Patrick Modiano , None
3.68
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Although originally published separately, Patrick Modiano’s three novellas form a single, compellin… read more
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"When daylight lasts until 10pm because of the time change, and the traffic noise has died down, I have the illusion that all I’d need to do is return to those faraway neighborhoods to find the people…"-Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
2. 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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3. The Plot Against America
By: Philip Roth
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more
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4. Sam Walton: Made In America
By: Sam Walton , John Huey
3.82
Format: 295 pages,
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, w… read more
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5. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
By: Giles Milton
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secre… read more
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6. Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
By: Rory MacLean
3.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teena… read more
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7. The 7th Month (Detective D.D. Warren, #5.5)
By: Lisa Gardner
3.60
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In her seventh month of pregnancy, D.D. should be taking it easy. Instead, she accepts a small cons… read more
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8. In at the Death (Settling Accounts, #4)
By: Harry Turtledove
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president wit… read more
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9. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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10. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more
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11. For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)
By: Gabrielle Meyer
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692… read more
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12. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
By: James Holland
4.47
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more
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- european history
13. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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14. Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
By: Andrew Roberts
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest an… read more
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15. Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
By: Dan Jones
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Cr… read more
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16. How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
By: Frank Dikötter
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling explora… read more
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17. Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939
By: Robert Forczyk
4.02
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, Robert Forczyk tells … read more
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- germany
- military history
- war
- world war ii
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- 20th century
18. Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
By: Richard Snow
3.97
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece Califor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
By: Paul Kenyon
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more
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- world war ii
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20. American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
By: David Corn
4.33
Format: 18 pages, Audiobook
#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harro… read more
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"We can have an American president who does not govern with negativism and fear of the future."-David Corn, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
21. M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa
By: Antonio Scurati
4.28
Format: 848 pages, Kindle Edition
Il 3 maggio 1938, nella nuova stazione Ostiense, Mussolini insieme a Vittorio Emanuele III e al min… read more
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22. 1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War
By: Frederick Taylor
3.91
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful … read more
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- european history
- 20th century
23. The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
By: Giles Tremlett
4.23
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry f… read more
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24. Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923–1941
By: Susan Ronald
3.97
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the ar… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
25. The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
By: Jean Edward Smith
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of… read more
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- european history
26. Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942
By: Richard B. Frank
4.43
Format: 751 pages, Hardcover
In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s popu… read more
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27. 1945: Victory in the West
By: Peter Caddick-Adams
4.55
Format: 651 pages, Kindle Edition
'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to … read more
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28. Move: The Forces Uprooting Us
By: Parag Khanna
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*A Financial Times Best Book of the Year* A “provocative” ( Booklist ) and compelling look at the … read more
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29. America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed a Nation
By: John Bicknell
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The presidential election of 1844 was one of the two or three most momentous elections in American … read more
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30. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more
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31. A Pitch in Time
By: Robert A. Lytle
4.35
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
The tale of a modern day boy who tumbles from his bike and wakes up to find he has traveled back in… read more
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