Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
By: Timothy Phillips
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye…
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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- history
- world history
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. SS-GB
By: Len Deighton
3.37
Format: 320 pages,
1941, and England invaded - and defeated - by the Germans... The King is a hostage in the tower, th… read more
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3. The Cold War: A World History
By: Odd Arne Westad
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact … read more
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4. So Much Blue
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 320 pages,
A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and th… read more
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5. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
By: Anna Reid
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Inspired and informed by the author's own experiences in Ukraine, this is a history of a politicall… read more
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6. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye--the illuminating story of a… read more
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7. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
8. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- russia
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- european history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
10. 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
- audiobook
11. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
12. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
By: Peter Pomerantsev
4.04
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” acc… read more
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- russia
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"З багатьох поглядів Ігорю пощастило. Він мав видимість вибору. Майор чітко дав зрозуміти, що він проведе сім років у в’язниці і п’ять на засланні у радянських загумінках, якщо залишиться. Якби він бу…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"The display, which was called 'Can Democracy Survive the Internet?' was dedicated to a 'global election management' company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Some of the farm's work reached a level of granularity that stunned Lyudmilla. Two trolls would go on the comments sections of small' provincial newspapers and start chatting about the street they li…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power: the Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counter-revolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones. But those conspiracies were …"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
13. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. 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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- russia
- history
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
"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
15. Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy
By: James Rickards
3.56
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history comes Jim Rickards’ second predi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
16. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
18. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
19. Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
By: Christopher Mims
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
21. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.17
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- european history
22. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. In Search of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City
By: John Kampfner
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many t… read more
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- history
- travel
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
By: Philip Oltermann
3.52
Format: 212 pages, ebook
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with … read more
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- nonfiction
- germany
- history
- audiobook
25. The Partisan
By: Patrick Worrall
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young pr… read more
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- russia
26. The Weimar Years Rise and Fall 1918-1933
By: Frank McDonough
4.49
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The prequel to Frank McDonough's bestselling Hitler Years series, covering the dramatic period of G… read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
27. The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
By: Naoíse Mac Sweeney
3.92
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
"A bold, sweeping bird's eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global per… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
By: Timothy Phillips
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye… read more
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- russia
- history
- memoir
- world history
- travel
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
29. Sucker
By: Daniel Hornsby
3.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Succession meets Bad Blood in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent • The b… read more
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30. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more
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- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
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