12 Best nonfiction books like Six Minutes In May by Nicholas Shakespeare

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Six Minutes In May

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

4.03

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

London, early May 1940: Britain is at war and Neville Chamberlain’s government is about to fall. It…

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1. Of Love and Shadows

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • historical
"Lo puedo leer en tus ojos, vienes de una noche de amor."

-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

"Compartieron una alegre relación y no la llamaron amor."

-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

"...era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias."

-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

"Tenía un pie en la ilusión obligada y otro en la realidad secreta"

-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

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2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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3. The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)

By: Colin Dexter

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Inspector Morse, recovering from an ulcer in Oxford's Radcliffe Hospital, comes across an old book … read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8) book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

"He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people."

-Colin Dexter, The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)

4. The Other Side of Silence (Bernie Gunther, #11)

By: Philip Kerr

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther i… read more

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5. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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6. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

By: Dan Jones

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more

Similar categories in Dan Jones's Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1) book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • historical
  • war
"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"

-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

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7. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

Similar categories in Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
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8. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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9. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • historical
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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10. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

Similar categories in Rory Clements's Munich Wolf book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • historical
  • war
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11. In a House of Lies (Inspector Rebus, #22)

By: Ian Rankin

4.09

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

IN A HOUSE OF LIES... Everyone has something to hide A missing private investigator is found, l… read more

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12. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

Similar categories in Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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13. The Old Drift

By: Namwali Serpell

3.74

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more

Similar categories in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • historical
"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."

-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift

"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."

-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift

"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."

-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift

"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"

-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift

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14. Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War

By: Tim Bouverie

4.36

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the Bri… read more

Similar categories in Tim Bouverie's Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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15. 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

Similar categories in Simon Shuster's The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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16. House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

By: Justine Firnhaber-Baker

4.30

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealt… read more

Similar categories in Justine Firnhaber-Baker's House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. 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

Similar categories in Giles Milton's The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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18. Six Minutes In May

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

4.03

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

London, early May 1940: Britain is at war and Neville Chamberlain’s government is about to fall. It… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • biography
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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19. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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20. Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

By: Gareth Harney

4.36

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary story of Rome, the ancient world's greatest superpower, as told through mankind's… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Harney's Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup by Mark William Jones

21. 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup

By: Mark William Jones

4.09

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully written . . . a warning for our times' Alex W… read more

Similar categories in Mark William Jones's 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Six Minutes In May

  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history

12 must-read history books like Six Minutes In May by Nicholas Shakespeare

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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

Michael Palin

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Ben Macintyre

4.26

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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

4.39

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