The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
By: Giles Milton
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. A Realm Divided: England in 1215
By: Dan Jones
3.93
Format: 300 pages,
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more
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2. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms
By: Richard Fidler
4.11
Format: 448 pages, ebook
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more
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3. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
4. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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5. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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6. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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7. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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8. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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9. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.33
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the … read more
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10. 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
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11. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
By: Caroline Crampton
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definit… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. The Tasting Menu: A Short Story
By: Stuart MacBride
3.58
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short tale from Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dead of Winter and … read more
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15. Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and The Elusive Enigma Machine
By: Charles Lachman
4.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The white-knuckled war saga of the US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944, … read more
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16. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
17. Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
By: Max Hastings
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably… read more
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18. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
By: Rachel Clarke
4.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling au… read more
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19. Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School
By: Sammy Wright
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together the… read more
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20. 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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21. Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
By: Alice Driver
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor pract… read more
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