The Normans in the South, 1016-1130
By: John Julius Norwich
4.35
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Tells the story of Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between Caes…
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1. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
By: Peter Murray , Jacob Burckhardt , Peter Burke , Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore , S.G.C. Middlemore
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less t… read more
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- italy
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2. The Fall of Berlin 1945
By: Antony Beevor
4.29
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more
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- european history
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"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945
3. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
4. Two Lives of Charlemagne
By: Einhard , Notker the Stammerer , Lewis Thorpe
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman EmpireChar… read more
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- history
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5. La carte et le territoire
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.95
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more
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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
6. 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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"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
7. The Alexiad
By: Anna Comnena , E.R.A. Sewter
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is one of the fundamental sources of information on chivalry as well as many other interesting… read more
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8. John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
By: William Caferro
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
John Hawkwood was fourteenth-century Italy's most notorious and successful soldier. A man known for… read more
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9. The Conquest of Gaul
By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more
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10. Human, All Too Human
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more
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11. Truman
By: David McCullough
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
By: Oswald Spengler
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
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14. The First Crusade: A New History
By: Thomas Asbridge
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure f… read more
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- european history
- medieval
15. Thoughts on Machiavelli
By: Leo Strauss
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful … read more
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16. Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD
By: John Haywood
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative volume that places the Vikings in their wider geographical and historical context.… read more
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17. The Discourses
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more
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18. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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19. Serotonin
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more
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"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
20. 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
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"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)
21. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more
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"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
22. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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23. Protector (Athenian #2)
By: Conn Iggulden
4.40
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
TWO LEGENDARY BATTLES. ONE FEARLESS WARRIOR . . . ________ Themistocles stands as the battle-s… read more
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24. Bronze Age Mindset
By: Bronze Age Pervert
3.84
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more
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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
25. Henry I: The Father of His People
By: Edmund King
3.70
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he … read more
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26. The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution
By: Oswald Spengler
4.15
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
An essay by the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler, on the need for "Prussianism" i… read more
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"[A]n der Wirklichkeit der Geschichte, scheitert jede Ideologie."-Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution
"Such is the trend of Nihilism. It occurs to no one to educate the masses to the level of true culture - that would be too much trouble, and possibly certain postulates for it are absent. On the contr…"-Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution
"Rationalism is at bottom nothing but criticism, and the critic is the reverse of a creator: he dissects and he reassembles; conception and birth are alien to him. Accordingly his work is artificial a…"-Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution
"Added to all this is the universal dread of reality . We "pale-faces" have it, all of us, although we are seldom, and most of us never, conscious of it. It is the spiritual weakness of the "Late" man…"-Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution
27. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
By: Judith Herrin
3.92
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imp… read more
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- european history
- medieval
28. The Normans in the South, 1016-1130
By: John Julius Norwich
4.35
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Tells the story of Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between Caes… read more
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29. The Outlaws
By: Ernst von Salomon
4.31
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
It is November 1918. Germany has just surrendered after four years of the most savage warfare in hi… read more
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"War had taken hold of them and would never let them go. They would never really belong to their homes again. The war was over ... but the armies were still in being."-Ernst von Salomon, The Outlaws
"Among those troops that I had joined were plenty of regular units with reliable officers, crowds of restless adventurers on the lookout for a fight and with it the chances of loot and relaxation of o…"-Ernst von Salomon, The Outlaws
30. Viaggio in Sicilia
By: Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Jubayr
3.49
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
1185. Sulla via del ritorno dal pellegrinaggio alla Mecca, Ibn Jubayr, letterato musulmano di Spagn… read more
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31. Gaza ante la historia (Spanish Edition)
By: Enzo Traverso
4.26
Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition
¿Es la destrucción de Gaza una consecuencia del ataque del 7 de octubre o el epílogo de un largo pr… read more
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