A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
By: Simon Parkin
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As heard on the New Yorker Radio The triumphant and "engaging history" ( The New Yorker ) of the y…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Every god needs a domain..."-Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
"Every god needs a domain..."-Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
"After spotting a plume of smoke on the horizon, 'like a dragonfly flitting over a stream', Prien dived..."-Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
"After spotting a plume of smoke on the horizon, 'like a dragonfly flitting over a stream', Prien dived..."-Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
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1. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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2. The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
By: William Manchester
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy,… read more
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- history
- war
3. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
By: Damien Lewis
3.79
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When France fell to the Nazis in the winter of 1939, Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that… read more
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- history
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4. Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
By: Alex Kershaw
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The Liberatorbrings to life the incredible true story of an American doc… read more
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- world war ii
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5. The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
By: Sinclair McKay
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous and crucial achievements was made: the cracki… read more
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6. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.07
Format: None pages,
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the traject… read more
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7. Crete: The Battle And The Resistance
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A riveting account of the fall of Greece, the Battle of Crete, and the Cretan Resistance, from the … read more
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8. Killing Rommel
By: Steven Pressfield
4.64
Format: 272 pages,
Steven Pressfield's quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare-- Gates of Fire, Ti… read more
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9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- audiobook
10. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
By: James Holland
4.47
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more
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11. A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #4)
By: S.J. Bennett
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The royally brilliant fourth book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery series! 1957… read more
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12. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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13. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
14. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
By: Deborah Jackson Taffa
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more
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"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
15. The Adventurer's Son
By: Roman Dial
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost forever": The… read more
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"During that golden age, we shared music and books, swapped interests and insights. And as he grew to know more than I did in economics, genetics, and politics, he shared his knowledge enriching my li…"-Roman Dial, The Adventurer's Son
16. The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two
By: Sarah Baring
4.00
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height… read more
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17. Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
By: Alec Nevala-Lee
4.21
Format: 544 pages, ebook
“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.… read more
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18. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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19. Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine
By: Andrew Wilson
4.41
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
Normandy, June 1944. Tank commander Andrew Wilson, a twenty-year-old lieutenant, is in charge of a … read more
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20. The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
By: Natalie Livingstone
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In The Women of Rothschild , Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of… read more
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21. A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
By: Simon Parkin
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As heard on the New Yorker Radio The triumphant and "engaging history" ( The New Yorker ) of the y… read more
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"War inevitably brings provocations to bravery, tests that allow no room for considered thought, forcing individuals to act on character and instinct."-Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
"Seventy-seven pf the ninety children who sailed on the City of Benares did not return home. How they must have wondered, in their final moments, why they were being made to die. How might any of us a…"-Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
22. The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I
By: Steven Ujifusa
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in … read more
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23. 1945: Victory in the West
By: Peter Caddick-Adams
4.55
Format: 651 pages, Kindle Edition
'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to … read more
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24. Little Cyclone
By: Airey Neave
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The exhilarating true story of the greatest escape route of the Second World War On a hot afternoon… read more
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25. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
By: Donna Leon
4.05
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more
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26. Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
By: Scott Shane
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who b… read more
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27. The Golden Swift (The Silver Arrow, #2)
By: Lev Grossman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lot has changed for Kate in a year. She and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of the steam-powe… read more
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28. Deep Black (Arcana Imperii #2)
By: Miles Cameron
4.40
Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition
Marca Nbaro had always dreamed of serving aboard the Greatships, with their vast cargo holds and a … read more
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29. Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
By: Bill Schutt
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neandert… read more
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30. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more
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31. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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