A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
By: Vasily Grossman , Antony Beevor , Luba Vinogradova
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud …
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1. The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
By: Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell
3.93
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their… read more
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- war
"The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them…"-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
"And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all …"-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
2. The Fall of Berlin 1945
By: Antony Beevor
4.29
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more
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- world war ii
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"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945
3. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Society's revenge matched its fright."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
4. The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1)
By: Jeff Shaara
4.16
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil … read more
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- world war ii
- war
- military history
"control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and"-Jeff Shaara, The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1)
5. One Soldier's War in Chechnya
By: Nick Allen , Arkady Babchenko , Аркадий Бабченко
4.07
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A vivid, autobiographical account of what life was like for a young soldier in Russia's Chechen war… read more
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- russia
- history
- biography
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- military history
- nonfiction
6. I Remember Beirut
By: Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
7. A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
By: Vasily Grossman , Antony Beevor , Luba Vinogradova
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud … read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
8. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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- history
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- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
9. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
By: Catherine Merridale
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
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10. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
By: Elizabeth M. Norman
4.27
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," h… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
11. A Very Long Engagement
By: Linda Coverdale , Sébastien Japrisot
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
In January 1917, five wounded French soldiers, their hands bound behind them, are brought to the fr… read more
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12. The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
By: Neal Bascomb
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hunting Eichmannand The Perfect Milean epic adven… read more
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13. To Hell and Back
By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy
4.25
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more
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- history
- biography
- war
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
14. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
By: Richard J. Evans
4.83
Format: 266 pages,
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more
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15. On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
By: Loren W. Christensen , Dave Grossman , Gavin de Becker
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle ? the impact … read more
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16. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
By: Peter Englund , Peter Graves
4.17
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, b… read more
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- history
- biography
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
"Війна — гарне видовище з точки зору генералів, журналістів та вчених."-Peter Englund, The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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- history
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18. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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- war
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- world war ii
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
19. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
20. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 470 pages, ebook
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more
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"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
21. 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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