Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
By: Keith Lowe
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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1. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
By: Joe Studwell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more
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2. Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
By: Alain de Botton
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist be… read more
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3. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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4. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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5. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
By: Brian Klaas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more
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6. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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7. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
By: Jeff Guinn
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more
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8. The World: A Family History of Humanity
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.00
Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more
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9. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
10. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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11. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
12. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
By: Martin Wolf
3.97
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more
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13. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
14. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
By: Sean McMeekin
4.28
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian We remember World War I… read more
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15. Personality and Power
By: Ian Kershaw
3.88
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive bio… read more
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16. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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17. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
By: Natasha Tidd
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies … read more
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18. The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
By: Gideon Rachman
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"Durable political systems ultimately rely on institutions, not individuals."-Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
19. Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
By: Markiyan Kamysh
3.29
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Trainspotting meets A Field Guide to Getting Lost in this rare portrait of the dystopian reality th… read more
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20. Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
By: Michael Korda
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in M… read more
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21. Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
By: Keith Lowe
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winnin… read more
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