20 best-selling nonfiction books like The Edge: Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End? by Mark Urban

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The Edge: Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End?

By: Mark Urban

3.62

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are decli…

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1. Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Paperback

In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more

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"Time belongs to the Tower."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"A broken spoon may become a fork."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

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2. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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4. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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5. 2017 War With Russia: An urgent warning from senior military command

By: Richard Shirreff

4.08

Format: 288 pages,

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  • politics
  • military fiction
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6. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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7. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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8. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
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9. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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10. Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

As the British army fights its way through India toward a diabolical trap, young private Richard Sh… read more

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11. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more

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12. The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

By: Rupert Smith

3.85

Format: 288 pages,

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13. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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14. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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15. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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16. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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17. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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18. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain’s Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again

By: Duncan Weldon

4.15

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

'Here's the history that really matters' Financial Times The UK is, at the same time, both one o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

By: David Kilcullen

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A counterintuitive examination into how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the la… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

By: Stephen Fry

4.32

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends, and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept …"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he broug…"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

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26. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History

By: Saul David

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS. Britain’s SBS … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
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28. The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn

By: Steve Richards

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Heal… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. The Edge: Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End?

By: Mark Urban

3.62

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are decli… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy

30. Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II

By: Paul Kennedy

4.12

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall’s beautiful full-color pa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
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31. Posh Boys

By: Robert Verkaik

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

18 Best history books like The Edge: Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End? by Mark Urban

Transform Your Habits

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Ben Macintyre

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Tim Marshall

4.20

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20 best-selling history books like Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain’s Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again by Duncan Weldon

Transform Your Habits

The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries

Alastair Campbell

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Adam Tooze

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