Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Phoenix Press)
By: Andrew Roberts
4.44
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
At six years of age, Robert Cecil, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was sent to a brutal boarding sch…
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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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- european history
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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3. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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- british literature
4. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
s/t: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 When Winston Spencer Churchill was born … read more
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5. Disraeli
By: Robert Blake
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Benjamin Disraeli, perhaps the best known & certainly the most colorful of Queen Victoria's Prime M… read more
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6. Diplomacy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Sec… read more
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7. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
8. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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9. The Complete Works
By: William Shakespeare
4.28
Format: None pages, Leather Bound
The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more
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10. Gladstone: A Biography
By: Roy Jenkins
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available… read more
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11. Dreadnought
By: Robert K. Massie
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more
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12. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more
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13. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
14. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
By: Antony Beevor
4.21
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more
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"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
15. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.23
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more
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16. 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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17. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.42
Format: 887 pages, Hardcover
In six weeks in 1940, France's armies were decisively beaten by Germany. A junior French general, r… read more
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18. Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Phoenix Press)
By: Andrew Roberts
4.44
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
At six years of age, Robert Cecil, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was sent to a brutal boarding sch… read more
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19. People's Republic (Kelly Turnbull, #1)
By: Kurt Schlichter
4.30
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
America’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now,… read more
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20. The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War
By: Vernon Bogdanor
4.33
Format: 880 pages, Hardcover
The turbulent years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain’s political landscape for ever. They saw a tran… read more
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21. Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy (Markets and Governments in Economic History)
By: Douglas A. Irwin
4.58
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic in… read more
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