19 Best nonfiction books like Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook

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Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

By: Dominic Sandbrook

4.50

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980 the…

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1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

By: Tom Holland

4.16

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West book and Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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3. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 book and Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

By: Tom Holland

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Rubiconand other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly… read more

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5. Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories

By: Ian Fleming

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Many of Ian Fleming's short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bo… read more

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6. 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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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • 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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7. 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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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

By: Tom Holland

4.15

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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11. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

By: James Holland

4.45

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more

Similar categories in James Holland's Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France book and Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK by Simon Kuper

17. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

18. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

Similar categories in Tom Baldwin's Keir Starmer: The Biography book and Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman

19. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

By: Tim Shipman

4.03

Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition

The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche by John Higgs

20. Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

By: John Higgs

4.15

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the B… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"His voice was proof that no matter how lost you may be you are never alone because there are people like John Lennon who could reach you."

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"In the midst of communal screaming there is only the present moment. The past and the future dissolve the way, nothing more than illusions. When the past disappears it takes with it the possibility o…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"When Bond was born he personified an aspect of male identity that was prevalent after the war that of the protector. Man saw their role as being the one to protect their families from external threat…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"An important factor here is that Bond does not see himself as a victim. This feels like it should be an increasingly important aspect of the character given the extent which society consistently urge…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

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21. Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

By: Dominic Sandbrook

4.50

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980 the… read more

Similar categories in Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 book and Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

  • cultural
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook

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4.16

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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James O'Brien

4.29

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4.15

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Max Hastings

4.06

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Adam Zamoyski

4.35

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Paul Fussell

4.13

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Sean McMeekin

3.68

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