Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East
By: Walter Reid
4.06
Format: 606 pages, Kindle Edition
At the end of the First World War the modern Middle East was created by Britain and France, who car…
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1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.95
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
3. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
4. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
4.28
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-ki… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
6. The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
By: William L. Shirer
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany-… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
7. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
By: Robert Spencer
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Un necesario antidoto ante el "buenismo" y la "Alianza de Civilizaciones". Todo (bueno, practicamen… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
8. Day of Infamy
By: Walter Lord
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Day of Infamy began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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10. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
11. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century… read more
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12. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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13. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
By: John King Fairbank , Barbara W. Tuchman
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-45 … read more
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14. The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
By: Anthony Everitt
3.71
Format: 76 pages, ebook
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history s most influential … read more
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15. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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16. Pax Romana
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
For much of its thousand year history, Rome was an invincible power protected by the most formidabl… read more
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17. Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
By: Tracy Borman
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his ques… read more
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18. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
19. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
20. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
By: Barry S. Strauss
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who foun… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. Matterhorn (Mac Dekker, #1)
By: Christopher Reich
4.26
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
A sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold in this al… read more
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- audiobook
22. 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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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
By: Stephen Fry
4.35
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty,… read more
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- nonfiction
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"His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus."-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
"Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en…"-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
24. In Cold Blood (High Peaks Mystery Thriller, #1)
By: Jack Hunt
4.48
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
His identical twin was murdered, now they want him dead.From International Bestselling Author Jack … read more
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25. Agent Running in the Field
By: John Le Carré
3.85
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field
"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field
"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field
"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field
26. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
By: James Holland
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy l… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
By: Samuel W. Mitcham
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just who was Erwin Rommel? War hero or war criminal? Hitler flunky or man of integrity? Military g… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
29. The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
By: Govert Schilling
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter―and sho… read more
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- history
30. Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East
By: Walter Reid
4.06
Format: 606 pages, Kindle Edition
At the end of the First World War the modern Middle East was created by Britain and France, who car… read more
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- historical
- politics
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- audiobook
31. A History of British India
By: Hayden J. Bellenoit
3.98
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 11 mins No era is more pertinent to understanding how present-day India, Pakistan, and … read more
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