Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
By: Sinclair McKay
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from…
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1. 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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2. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
By: Russell Shorto
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by t… read more
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- history
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3. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
By: Anonymous , Philip Boehm , Hans Magnus Enzensberger
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian … read more
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4. Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
By: Rory MacLean
3.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teena… read more
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5. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
6. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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7. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
8. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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9. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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10. 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
11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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12. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
By: David de Jong
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
13. Munich Wolf
By: Rory Clements
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more
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14. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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15. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
By: John Gibney
3.73
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the daw… read more
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16. 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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17. Travellers in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more
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"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
18. Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
By: Jonathan Dimbleby
4.35
Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition
Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of… read more
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19. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more
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- history
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"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
20. Budapest: Between East and West
By: Victor Sebestyen
4.29
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarot… read more
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21. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
By: David Van Reybrouck
4.54
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more
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- unfinished
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22. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.17
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more
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23. Keir Starmer: The Biography
By: Tom Baldwin
4.06
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more
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- history
24. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
By: Dan Stone
4.28
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more
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25. Sota vai rauha - kirjoituksia Venäjästä ja lännestä
By: Mikhail Shishkin
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Mikä Venäjällä on vialla ja miksi? Palkitun kirjailijan esseekokoelma Venäjästä ja venäläisyydes… read more
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26. The Undercurrents
By: Kirsty Bell
4.02
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticis… read more
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27. Höhenrausch: Das kurze Leben zwischen den Kriegen
By: Harald Jähner
4.38
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Deutschland, 1918. Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, Revolution, Sieg der Demokratie. Zugleich beginnt ei… read more
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28. Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
By: Sinclair McKay
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from… read more
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- world history
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- world war ii
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- european history
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29. The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
By: Martin Williams
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 w… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Berlin: The Story of a City
By: Barney White-Spunner
4.15
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people—from the medieval kings surroundin… read more
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31. Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann
By: Gill Paul
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel ab… read more
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