The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail, 1492-1900
By: Simon Schama CBE
4.27
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere. The…
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1. A History of the Jews
By: Paul Johnson
4.16
Format: 644 pages, Paperback
This historical magnum opus covers 4,000 years of the extraordinary history of the Jews as a people… read more
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- israel
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- nonfiction
- judaica
2. Poland: A History
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. … read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
By: Ian Fleming
3.97
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Description: A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet an… read more
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- audiobook
"The World Is Not Enough"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me."-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
4. Israel : A History
By: Martin Gilbert , Martin Gilbert
4.08
Format: 786 pages, Paperback
Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at… read more
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- israel
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- judaism
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- nonfiction
5. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East
By: James Barr
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers - including T.E. Lawrence, Win… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- israel
6. Schindler's List
By: Thomas Keneally
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews… read more
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- historical
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- history
7. The Korean War
By: Max Hastings
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. The Periodic Table
By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more
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9. The Battle for the Falklands
By: Max Hastings , Simon Jenkins
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on t… read more
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10. The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
By: Anthony Everitt
3.71
Format: 76 pages, ebook
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history s most influential … read more
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11. A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)
By: Simon Schama
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of… read more
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12. The Case for Israel
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Pr… read more
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13. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- audiobook
14. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
15. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
16. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- jewish
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- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- judaica
- audiobook
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
17. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
19. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
By: Walter Russell Mead
4.22
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that o… read more
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- israel
- jewish
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- judaism
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- nonfiction
21. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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- historical
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- audiobook
23. Napoleon: The Man behind the Myth
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.27
Format: 728 pages, Hardcover
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English t… read more
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- history
- audiobook
24. The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
By: Nick Lloyd
4.30
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysi… read more
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- history
25. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
By: Eswar S. Prasad
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of crypt… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Rachel Chrastil
3.84
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more
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28. Le labyrinthe des égarés: L'Occident et ses adversaires
By: Amin Maalouf
4.28
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Une guerre dévastatrice vient d’éclater au cœur de l’Europe, qui ravive les pires traumatismes du p… read more
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- history
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29. Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
By: Jonathan Sacks
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues a… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail, 1492-1900
By: Simon Schama CBE
4.27
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere. The… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- judaica
- audiobook
31. Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War
By: Jonathan Dimbleby
4.48
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944 The year 1944 was the turning point of World … read more
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