16 must-read nonfiction books like The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett

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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

By: Timothy Tackett

4.16

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillo…

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1. Europe: A History

By: Norman Davies

4.20

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Nor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly."

-Norman Davies, Europe: A History

"An ambassador’, quipped Sir Henry Wootton, ‘is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."

-Norman Davies, Europe: A History

"For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of Russia."

-Norman Davies, Europe: A History

"The formula Muscovy + Ukraine = Russia does not feature in the Russians’ own version of their history; but it is fundamental."

-Norman Davies, Europe: A History

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2. Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation

By: Phillip Cary

4.12

Format: 258 pages, Audio Cassette

He was only one man—a humble monk and Bible professor—yet he sparked a religious rebellion that cha… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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3. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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4. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty

By: Desmond Seward

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family from Henry II to Richard III . F… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

By: William Doyle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Bar… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • french revolution
  • france
  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • 18th century
Cover of A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

8. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.99

Format: 272 pages,

Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • history
  • european history
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9. Victorian Britain

By: Patrick N. Allitt

4.53

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Darwin. Gladstone. Disraeli. Dickens. Meet the pioneering, paradoxical Britons of the reign of Quee… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

10. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

By: Peter H. Wilson

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history

11. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

By: Tamim Ansary

3.87

Format: 144 pages,

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more

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12. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more

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13. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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14. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

By: Christopher Clark

3.35

Format: None pages,

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15. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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16. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • audiobook
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

Cover of Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker

17. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By: Geoffrey Parker

4.13

Format: 737 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world’s f… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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18. 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
  • politics
  • france
  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

By: Timothy Tackett

4.16

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillo… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • french revolution
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • european history
  • 18th century
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cambridge History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker

20. The Cambridge History of Warfare

By: Geoffrey Parker

3.90

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight disting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of La trampa del optimismo. Cómo los años noventa explican el mundo actual by Ramón González Férriz

21. La trampa del optimismo. Cómo los años noventa explican el mundo actual

By: Ramón González Férriz

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Los años noventa del siglo XX empezaron, en cierto sentido, el 9 de noviembre de 1989, con la caída… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

8 must-read audiobook books like The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett

Transform Your Habits

Europe: A History

Norman Davies

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation

Phillip Cary

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Victorian Britain

Patrick N. Allitt

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

David H. Petraeus

4.06

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14 Top history books like The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

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The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

4.13

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July 1914: Countdown to War

Sean McMeekin

3.68

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