Asian Armageddon, 1944–45 (War in the Far East Book, #3)
By: Peter Harmsen
4.37
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping account of the final period of the war in the Asia Pacific during WWII. The last inst…
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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. The Great Siege: Malta 1565
By: Ernle Bradford
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
In 1565 the Ottoman Empire was at its peak. Under their sultan, Solyman the Magnificent, the Turks … read more
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3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
4. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
By: Henry Hazlitt
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more
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5. The War in the West: Volume 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
By: James Holland
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Much of what we think we know about World War II is steeped in myth rather than fact. For seven dec… read more
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6. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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7. Sharpe's Enemy (Sharpe, #15)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and … read more
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8. 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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- history
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9. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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- asia
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10. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
By: Craig Nelson
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of theevent that chan… read more
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11. Caesar: Life of a Colossus
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.22
Format: 583 pages, Hardcover
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more
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"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
12. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
13. Billy Boyle (Billy Boyle World War II, #1)
By: James R. Benn
3.14
Format: 54 pages,
Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American, cop from Boston has just made detective - with a little help f… read more
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14. The Emperor
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distingui… read more
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15. Locked On (Jack Ryan Universe, #14)
By: Tom Clancy , Mark Greaney
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Tom Clancy's All-Star lineup is back. Jack Ryan, his son, Jack Jr., John Clark Ding Chavez and the … read more
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16. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
By: Paul Johnson , None
3.50
Format: None pages,
"Truly a distinguished work of history...Modern Timesunites historical & critical consciousness. It… read more
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17. Sharpe's Sword (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadlies… read more
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18. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. These Truths: A History of the United States
By: Jill Lepore
4.40
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more
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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
21. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
By: Steve Coll
4.21
Format: 779 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book A… read more
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- history
- military history
22. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
By: Ellis Peters
4.07
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H… read more
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"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to r…"-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one ma…"-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)
23. How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
By: Lee McIntyre
3.86
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronaviru… read more
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- history
"Nadie se autoidentifica como negacionista de la ciencia. A menudo se ven a sí mismos como más científicos que los científicos. Lo que uno de nosotros piense de ellos, muchos de ellos lo pensarán de n…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Quizá sea tan difícil que un negacionista de la ciencia cambie de opinión a base de evidencia porque, en cierto sentido, la evidencia no es realmente lo que fundamenta sus creencias. Puede que el con…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Aunque el contenido de los sistemas de creencias varíe, todo negacionismo de la ciencia parece fundamentarse en un reducido conjunto de errores del razonamiento humano. [...] 1)Evidencia basada en un…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"En su libro tremendamente útil How to Have Impossible Conversations, el filósofo Peter Boghossian y el matemático James Lindsay nos proporcionan un sorprendente consejo para tratar de convencer a alg…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
24. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
By: Mary Elise Sarotte
4.25
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939
By: Frank McDonough
4.48
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From historian Frank McDonough, the first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler… read more
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26. Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
By: Helen Thompson
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II
By: Jeffrey R. Cox
4.37
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a de… read more
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- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
28. Asian Armageddon, 1944–45 (War in the Far East Book, #3)
By: Peter Harmsen
4.37
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping account of the final period of the war in the Asia Pacific during WWII. The last inst… read more
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- history
- asia
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
29. The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
By: Frank McDonough
4.56
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A new narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime: a twelve-year descent into ba… read more
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- nonfiction
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30. 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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"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.
31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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