28 best-selling nonfiction books like A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid

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A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By: Anna Reid

3.96

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid , here is a list of 28 books like this:

1. The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution

By: Dominic Lieven

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial TimesBest Book of the Year "Lieven has a double gift… read more

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2. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. 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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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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4. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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5. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker

4.39

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Baker's The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City book and Anna Reid's A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
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7. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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8. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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9. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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10. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

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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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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11. Burma Sahib

By: Paul Theroux

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of  The Mosquito Coast  and  The Bad Angel Brothers  comes a riveting new… read more

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12. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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13. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
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14. 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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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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15. 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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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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16. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

By: Rachel Chrastil

3.84

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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17. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

By: Rowland White

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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19. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

By: Jim Sciutto

4.10

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Are we losing a war few of us realize we’re fighting? Jim Sciutto, CNN’s Chief National Security … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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20. A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By: Anna Reid

3.96

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial … read more

Similar categories in Anna Reid's A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution book and Anna Reid's A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

  • world war i
  • russia
  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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21. The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War

By: Giles Milton

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motl… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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22. Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)

By: Colin Elliott

3.76

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev

23. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh

24. The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned

By: John Strausbaugh

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
  • military history
Cover of The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between by Sulmaan Wasif Khan

25. The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between

By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A concise, definitive history of the duel between the US and China over the fate of Taiwan  As ten… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ by Catherine Nixey

26. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ

By: Catherine Nixey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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28. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

By: Raj Shah

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

29. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II by Christian Wolmar

30. The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II

By: Christian Wolmar

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From an acclaimed historian and renowned railroad expert, the incredible, untold story of the engin… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

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Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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