Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World
By: Peter Padfield
4.08
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
An exciting chronicle of important maritime wars and the nations that fought them defends the notio…
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1. Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II
By: Geoffrey Parker
3.95
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain’s be… read more
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2. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
By: Fred Anderson
4.19
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the Am… read more
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3. Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.37
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who le… read more
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4. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
5. 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
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6. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
7. Peter the Great: His Life and World
By: Robert K. Massie
4.14
Format: 909 pages, Paperback
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more
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8. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have … read more
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9. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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10. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
By: Bruce Levine
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that confl… read more
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11. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
By: Orlando Figes
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orl… read more
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12. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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13. George V: Never a Dull Moment
By: Jane Ridley
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively… read more
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- nonfiction
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14. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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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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"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
16. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
17. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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18. World War 3.1: A Novel of the Axis of Time
By: John Birmingham
4.45
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
WORLD WAR 3.1 The year is 1954. A decade has passed since Berlin and Tokyo were consumed by nucl… read more
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19. Swarm: The hit series continues (The Aggressor Series Book 3)
By: F.X. Holden
4.60
Format: 540 pages, Kindle Edition
The battle lines have been drawn. China has unleashed a new weapon of mass destruction on the wo… read more
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20. Midnight: A gripping Aggressor Inc. action thriller (The Aggressor Series Book 4)
By: F.X. Holden
4.68
Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition
Volume 4 of 5 in the Aggressor Series Coming March 2024 The night is always darkest before the d… read more
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21. The Submariners: Life in British Submarines, 1901-1999 (20th Century Naval Innovations)
By: John Winton
4.33
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The entire span of British submarine history has been carefully recorded the tragedies in both pe… read more
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22. The Israeli Campaign of 1967: The Authoritative Account of the Six-Day War (Conflict in the Middle East)
By: Peter Young
4.13
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful and comprehensive study of the Six-Day War for Palestine of 1967.In light of the continu… read more
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23. Coral Sea 1942: Turning the Tide
By: Richard Freeman
4.14
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
In May 1942, the Americans discovered the Japanese planned to take Port Moresby in New Guinea. Aft… read more
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24. 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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25. Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World
By: Peter Padfield
4.08
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
An exciting chronicle of important maritime wars and the nations that fought them defends the notio… read more
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- naval history
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- european history
26. The Emperor Charlemagne
By: E.R. Chamberlin
4.02
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
An authoritative biography of the greatest ruler of the medieval period. The Emperor Charlemagne is… read more
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27. Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
By: Lawrence Freedman
4.16
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an asserti… read more
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28. The Friendless Sky: The story of air combat in World War 1
By: Alexander McKee
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. It was to be their first major war since Waterloo. Britai… read more
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29. The Crucible of War Book 1: Wavell's Command
By: Barrie Pitt
4.29
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
The Crucible of War: Book 1 ‘The definitive work on the Desert War.’ Manchester Evening News Wave… read more
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30. The Crucible of War Book 3: Montgomery and Alamein
By: Barrie Pitt
4.32
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
The Crucible of War Book 3 ‘Masterly and lucid in its descriptions not only of the fighting and st… read more
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31. The Crucible of War: Auchinleck's Command: The Definitive History of the Desert War
By: Barrie Pitt
4.32
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
In the second volume, Churchill replaces Sir Claude Auchinleck as commander-in-chief with Field Mar… read more
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