19 best-selling history books like The Cossacks by Philip Longworth

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The Cossacks

By: Philip Longworth

3.83

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a people who have survived throughout history... The legendary Cossack, the sabre wiel…

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1. The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War

By: Stephen Turnbull

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Art of Renaissance Warfare details the changes in warfare that occurred between the fall of Con… read more

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  • history
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2. Taras Bulba

By: Nikolai Gogol , David George Hogarth

3.72

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852) "« Voyons, tourne-toi. Dieu, que tu es drôle ! Qu’est-ce que cette r… read more

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"I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away."

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"Our country is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to us. My country is—you! That is my native land, and I bear that country in my heart."

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to …"

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"Ukrayna'nın benim yurdum olduğunu kim söylüyor? Kim, ne adına orayı bana yurt olarak vermiş? Ruhumu okşayan, beni sevgiyle kucaklayan her yer ya da her şey benim yurdumdur. Benim yurdum, varlığım her…"

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

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3. The Ministry of Fear

By: Graham Greene , Alan Furst

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to … read more

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4. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)

By: T.H. White

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more

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5. Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots

By: Linda Porter

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of t… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman

6. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

By: Israel Finkelstein , Neil Asher Silberman

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use … read more

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  • history
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7. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

By: Amin Maalouf

4.20

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses, and … read more

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  • history
"Après la destruction d'Alamout (1256), la secte des Assassins s'est perpétuée sous une forme on ne peut plus pacifique : les ismaéliens, adeptes de l'Aga Khan, dont on oublie parfois qu'il est le suc…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

"In the space of eighteen months three of the most renowned cities of the Arab world - Tripoli, Beirut, and Saida - had been taken and sacked, their inhabitants massacred or deported, their emirs, qad…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

"Pour l'envahisseur, apprendre la langue du peuple conquis est une habileté; pour ce dernier, apprendre la langue du conquérant est une compromission, voire une trahison. De fait, les Franj ont été no…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

"La fierté de Maara, c'était d'être la patrie de l'une des plus grandes figures de la littérature arabe, Aboul-Ala al-Maari, mort en 1057. Ce poète aveugle, libre penseur, avait osé s'en prendre aux m…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

8. The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714

By: James Falkner

4.46

Format: None pages,

The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Sp… read more

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  • history
Cover of Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship by Richard Hough

9. Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship

By: Richard Hough

3.73

Format: None pages,

The modern battleship era began with the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906. In their day, battleshi… read more

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  • history

10. The Last Battle

By: Cornelius Ryan

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was … read more

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11. Blood and Bone (Novels of the Malazan Empire #5)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the western sky the bright emerald banner of the Visitor descends like a portent of annihilation… read more

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12. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • history
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Cover of Destroyer (The Thrice Named Man #13) by Hector Miller

13. Destroyer (The Thrice Named Man #13)

By: Hector Miller

4.57

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 268 AD and the once proud Roman Empire is a shadow of its former self. It will take a … read more

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14. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

By: Timothy Snyder

4.36

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more

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  • history
"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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15. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • history
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Cover of Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two) by Charles Whiting

16. Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

By: Charles Whiting

4.17

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

“a provocative and stimulating addition to the study of World War II.” HistoryNetPerfect for reader… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome by Nick   Holmes

17. The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome

By: Nick Holmes

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

It was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the… read more

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  • history
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18. Light of the Jedi

By: Charles Soule

3.93

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before the Clone Wars...Jedi lit the way for the ga… read more

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"Peace without justice is flawed, hollow at its core."

-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

"No matter what a person was on the outside. Inside, everyone was made of light."

-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

"When someone was hurting, you did what you could to heal them. When someone was lost, you found them."

-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

"If you said you would try to do something, people heard that as you would do something, and if you didn't achieve the goal then they thought you had failed. And blamed you for trying at all. It wasn'…"

-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

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19. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

By: Paul Kenyon

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more

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  • history
Cover of Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond by Laura Mersini-Houghton

20. Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond

By: Laura Mersini-Houghton

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics." —The Washington Po… read more

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21. No Place To Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)

By: Anthony Richardson

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The eye-opening account of the forgotten and tumultuous Eastern Front in World War Two.Perfect for … read more

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22. Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945

By: Florian Huber

4.08

Format: None pages, None

In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of de… read more

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  • history
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23. The Emperor Charlemagne

By: E.R. Chamberlin

4.02

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

An authoritative biography of the greatest ruler of the medieval period. The Emperor Charlemagne is… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War by Alan Warwick Palmer

24. The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War

By: Alan Warwick Palmer

3.86

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

In this classic account of the Crimean War, Alan Palmer puts the myths and realities of The Charge … read more

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  • history
Cover of The Count Of Virtue: Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (The Mad, Bad and Ugly of Italian History) by E.R. Chamberlin

25. The Count Of Virtue: Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (The Mad, Bad and Ugly of Italian History)

By: E.R. Chamberlin

3.79

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

A history of Milan, particularly in the fourteenth century and of the Visconti family who ruled it … read more

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26. The Cossacks

By: Philip Longworth

3.83

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a people who have survived throughout history... The legendary Cossack, the sabre wiel… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Iron One (erilaR, #4) by Hector Miller

27. The Iron One (erilaR, #4)

By: Hector Miller

4.45

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 474 AD.A wolf winter in the far north draws a terrible menace into the lands of the Her… read more

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Cover of The Kaiser: War Lord of the Second Reich by Alan Warwick Palmer

28. The Kaiser: War Lord of the Second Reich

By: Alan Warwick Palmer

3.79

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

He was, in the minds of many, the man responsible for the catastrophe that engulfed Europe in 1914.… read more

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  • history
Cover of Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India by Walter Reid

29. Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India

By: Walter Reid

3.76

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1947, when India achieved independence, Britain portrayed the transfer of power as the outcome o… read more

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  • history
"Churchill had found Linlithgow a congenial viceroy. Both men were for doing nothing for as long as possible."

-Walter Reid, Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India

"The story of the last thirty years of the Raj reveals little evidence of goodwill or wholehearted commitment to India’s well-being. On the contrary, it is an unsettling story of deceit and double-spe…"

-Walter Reid, Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India

"He (Archibald, Lord Wavell, former Viceroy of India) was intellectually formidable , though he did not parade the fact. In 1938 he gave the Lees Knowles Lectures at Cambridge on ‘Generals and General…"

-Walter Reid, Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India

"He spoke to me for half an hour, and I am still not sure what he meant to tell me. Every sentence he spoke could be interpreted in at least two different ways. I would be happier were I convinced tha…"

-Walter Reid, Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India

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30. Vanishing Primitive Man

By: Tim Severin

4.38

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

A journey in search of the living survivors of Stone Age societies. Vanishing primitive Man explor… read more

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  • history
Cover of The North-West Rebellion: The History and Legacy of the Native American Uprising against Canada in the Late 19th Century by Charles River Editors

31. The North-West Rebellion: The History and Legacy of the Native American Uprising against Canada in the Late 19th Century

By: Charles River Editors

4.09

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

The Métis people, later one of the three recognized aboriginal groups in Canada, were an indigenous… read more

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20 best-selling fiction books like Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule

Transform Your Habits

Lost Stars (Star Wars)

Claudia Gray

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

Timothy Zahn

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Dark Disciple

Christie Golden

4.81

Transform Your Habits

Ahsoka

E.K. Johnston

3.57

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