The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
By: Alexander Watson
4.13
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
In the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a s…
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1. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.35
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the ci… read more
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2. The Crimean War: A History
By: Orlando Figes
4.06
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account… read more
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"Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests."-Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History
3. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
By: Alistair Horne
4.29
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The … read more
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4. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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5. Gösta Berling's Saga
By: Selma Lagerlöf , Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau , Lillie Tudeer
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlof assured her place in Swedish le… read more
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6. 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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7. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann , Michael Bienert
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a… read more
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8. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
9. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
By: Rana Mitter
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan For decade… read more
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10. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
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11. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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12. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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13. Dead Men Walking
By: Steve Lyons
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When the necrons rise, a mining planet descends into a cauldron of war and the remorseless foes dec… read more
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14. The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era: The End of a Battleship Era?
By: Martin Middlebrook , Patrick Mahoney
4.15
Format: None pages,
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16. A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
By: Geoffrey Wawro
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Austro-Hungarian army that marched eastward in the opening campaign of World War I was as disor… read more
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17. The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
By: Mark Thompson
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the First World War in Italy, a war that gave birth to fascism. Mussolini foug… read more
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18. Our Enemies Will Vanish
By: Yaroslav Trofimov
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more
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19. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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20. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
By: Alexander Mikaberidze
4.34
Format: 936 pages, Hardcover
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more
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21. The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)
By: John French
4.03
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
Siege of Terra Book 1 After years of devastating war, Horus and his forces have arrived at Terra… read more
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"Run... Run, father, and know that I'm coming. Run!" - Warmaster Horus"-John French, The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)
"It is not often that we get to learn from the mistakes of the past." Rogal Dorn"-John French, The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)
"At the root of your lies, is there any truth, father?’ The darkness becomes a forest, dark trunks reaching to an untouchable sky, roots crawling out and down into the abyss beneath. The man on the ch…"-John French, The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)
22. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
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4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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23. 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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24. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
By: James Holland
4.45
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more
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25. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
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4.26
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s … read more
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27. The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
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4.30
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28. Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2)
By: Tad Williams
4.38
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Following on from The Witchwood Crown, Empire of Grass: Book Two of The Last King of Osten Ard cont… read more
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"The strong never need to silence the weak, or they prove that they are the truly weak ones."-Tad Williams, Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2)
" Summer's End Cruel orb, my foe, the sun, Glaring upon things I never want to see again The proud, lightning-limbed oaks Of Hekhasor The shimmering blue waters of Silverhome's lake And the endless, e…"-Tad Williams, Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2)
29. Grote verwachtingen: In Europa 1999-2019
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4.21
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
Een verbluffende geschiedenis van ons heden, waarin de eerste twee decennia van dit meest fragiele … read more
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30. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
By: Alexander Watson
4.13
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
In the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a s… read more
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31. Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War
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4.37
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In this monumental history of World War I, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's f… read more
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