9 Top history books like La guerra dei cent'anni by Philippe Contamine

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La guerra dei cent'anni

By: Philippe Contamine

3.32

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Etudie les causes, les différentes phases et les conséquences de la guerre de Cent ans, qui opposa …

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1. La promesse de l'aube

By: Romain Gary

4.24

Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more

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"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

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2. I biplani di d'Annunzio

By: Luca Masali

3.51

Format: 275 pages, Mass Market Paperback

La Grande Guerra poteva essere combattuta per la seconda volta. In un altro tempo.La Grande Guerra … read more

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3. Mitología nórdica

By: None

3.97

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

La mitologia nordica o "vikinga" es menos famosa y popular que la clasica, pero no por ello posee m… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since… read more

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5. The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)

By: Tad Williams

3.91

Format: 192 pages,

With The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams introduced readers to the incredible fantasy world of Osten… read more

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6. La scomparsa di Majorana

By: Leonardo Sciascia , Lea Ritter Santini

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Dal 26 marzo 1938 si perdono le tracce, fra la partenza e l'arrivo in un viaggio per mare da Palerm… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Cosmicomics

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of … read more

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8. The Eternal Husband

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Eternal Husband (Russian: Vechnyi muzh, Vechny muzh) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoy… read more

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9. Chien blanc

By: Romain Gary , None

4.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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10. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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11. The Double

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.68

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more

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"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

12. River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)

By: Wilbur Smith

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt's… read more

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13. From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne

3.76

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more

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"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

14. Storia della colonna infame

By: Alessandro Manzoni , Ferruccio Ulivi

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

In un tempo, come l'attuale, di dolorosi e talvolta dilaniati assilli giudiziari e processuali, for… read more

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15. I racconti di Pietroburgo

By: Nikolai Gogol , Pietro Zveteremich

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nei racconti del ciclo pietroburghese la capitale (che all'ucraino Gogol appare come una citta non … read more

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16. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

17. The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more

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18. Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

By: Sam Savage , None

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Firmin is a rat born in a book (a shredded copy of Finneggans Wake), who finds the books he consume… read more

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19. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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20. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

By: Niall Ferguson

3.93

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

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21. L'École des Femmes

By: Molière

3.62

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

L’École des femmes est une comédie en cinq actes et en vers. La comédie de Molière L'École des … read more

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22. La mare au diable

By: George Sand

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Un jeune veuf, Germain, vit avec ses beaux parents et ses trois enfants. Son beau-pere le pousse a … read more

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23. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

By: Jared Diamond

3.90

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

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24. Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville

By: Denis Diderot

3.30

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Les protagonistes du dialogue de Diderot, A et B, discutent du Voyage autour du monde du navigateur… read more

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25. Il Risorgimento italiano

By: Alberto Mario Banti

3.70

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. La guerra dei cent'anni

By: Philippe Contamine

3.32

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Etudie les causes, les différentes phases et les conséquences de la guerre de Cent ans, qui opposa … read more

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  • medieval
  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone. Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo

By: Francesco Filippi

4.06

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Dopo oltre settant’anni dalla caduta del fascismo, mai come ora l’idra risolleva la testa, soprattu… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ripetete una bugia cento, mille, un milione di volte, e diventerà una verità», pare dicesse il ministro della propaganda Joseph Goebbels quando illustrava, come uno chef orgoglioso della propria rice…"

-Francesco Filippi, Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone. Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo

"Se si guardano le informazioni sui reati, bisogna ammettere che durante il regime fascista, tra il 1924 e il 1943, le statistiche ufficiali riportano un crollo dei reati mafiosi in Sicilia, che addir…"

-Francesco Filippi, Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone. Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo

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28. The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us

By: Christophe Bonneuil

4.28

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene" The Earth has entered a new epoch:… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Europa contra Europa 1914-1945

By: Julián Casanova

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

La Primera Guerra Mundial, que decidió el destino de Europa por la fuerza, tras décadas de primacía… read more

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  • history
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30. La meraviglia del tutto: Conversazione con Massimo Polidoro (Italian Edition)

By: Piero Angela

4.55

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

"Questo è probabilmente l'ultimo libro che scrivo. Non pensavo di farlo, ma poi ho riflettuto che f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Non ho mai chiesto favori e, quindi, nessuno ne ha mai chiesti a me. Il mio telefono non squilla, come si dice. Con la mia barchetta ho sempre cercato di andare avanti, malgrado i venti sfavorevoli e…"

-Piero Angela, La meraviglia del tutto: Conversazione con Massimo Polidoro (Italian Edition)

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31. Las leyendas tradicionales gallegas

By: Leandro Carré Alvarellos

4.35

Format: 327 pages, None

Leandro Carré Alvarellos fue una de las figuras más relevantes de la cultura gallega de principios … read more

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Mitología nórdica

None

3.97

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La scomparsa di Majorana

Leonardo Sciascia , Lea Ritter Santini

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Jared Diamond

3.90

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The Making of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr

3.98

Transform Your Habits

A History of Japan

R.H.P. Mason , J.G. Caiger

3.49

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

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Peter Ackroyd

2.64

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