19 Best history books like Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis by Robert Gellately

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Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis

By: Robert Gellately

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist polit…

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1. It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more

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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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2. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Cover of Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky

3. Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage

By: Stephen Budiansky

4.29

Format: 256 pages,

Queen Elizabeth I and England's First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was princip… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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5. Jesus: A Very Short Introduction

By: Richard Bauckham

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, eval… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

6. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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7. The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: Thomas Childers

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of the Third Reich--how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and… read more

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8. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

By: None

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more

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9. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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10. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

By: Mike Duncan

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more

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11. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

By: James W. Loewen

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and … read more

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12. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

By: Carol Anderson

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more

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13. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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14. Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

By: Scott H. Young

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

By: David I. Kertzer

4.28

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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17. To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42

By: Prit Buttar

4.31

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A ground-breaking and enthralling history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought t… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions by Michael  Moss

18. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

By: Michael Moss

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Michael Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical commu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
Cover of The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series) by Michael Scott-Baumann

19. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

By: Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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20. Building a Non-Anxious Life

By: John Delony

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Why are my anxiety alarms going off all the time?" "Why do I feel like I'm in an endless cycle … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich

21. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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22. 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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  • politics
  • war
  • psychology
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Cover of The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands

23. The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By: Philippe Sands

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on wh… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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24. Activate Your Vagus Nerve: Unleash Your Body’s Natural Ability to Overcome Gut Sensitivities, Inflammation, Autoimmunity, Brain Fog, Anxiety and Depression

By: Navaz Habib

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Repair your vagus nerve and experience amazing health and wellness benefits Your vagus nerve is … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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25. Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

By: Tania Crasnianski

3.85

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Borm… read more

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  • history
  • nazi party
  • germany
  • war
  • psychology
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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26. The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
"Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for…"

-Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

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27. Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

By: Volker Ullrich

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough kno… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough

28. The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939

By: Frank McDonough

4.48

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From historian Frank McDonough, the first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler… read more

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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
  • european history
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29. Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis

By: Robert Gellately

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist polit… read more

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  • european history
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30. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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  • psychology
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma

31. The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

By: Ulbe Bosma

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism … read more

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11 Top politics books like Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis by Robert Gellately

Transform Your Habits

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Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Saul Friedländer

4.24

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

David I. Kertzer

4.28

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4.31

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Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

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4.34

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