7 Best nonfiction books like Life in Nelson's Navy by Dudley Pope

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Life in Nelson's Navy

By: Dudley Pope

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life in Nelson's Navy

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Life in Nelson's Navy by Dudley Pope , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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3. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

By: Tim Parks

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of Italian Neighborsreturns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian li… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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5. How to Write a Thesis

By: Umberto Eco , Caterina Mongiat Farina , Geoff Farina , None

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Ital… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Ways of Curating

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Sin… read more

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  • nonfiction

8. High Fidelity

By: Nick Hornby

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more

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9. Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else

By: David Balzer

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary cultur… read more

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10. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more

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11. Ship of the Line

By: C.S. Forester

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in com… read more

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12. Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850

By: Linda Colley

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

Ranging over a quarter of a millennium and four continents, Captivesuncovers the experiences and wr… read more

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13. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

By: Jean-Benoît Nadeau , Julie Barlow

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

The French... -Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have few… read more

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14. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

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15. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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16. H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death a… read more

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  • british literature
"Jack, you've debauched my sloth."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It woul…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the au…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

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17. Life in Nelson's Navy

By: Dudley Pope

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • naval history
  • british literature
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18. The Curator's Handbook

By: Adrian George

4.26

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

A step-by-step guide to every aspect of putting on an art exhibition, with tips from a range of inf… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

7 Top philosophy books like How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco, Caterina Mongiat Farina, Geoff Farina

Transform Your Habits

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Julia Cameron

3.96

Transform Your Habits

St. Augustine in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series)

Paul Strathern

3.13

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Francesco Piccolo

4.20

Transform Your Habits

How to Write a Thesis

Umberto Eco , Caterina Mongiat Farina , Geoff Farina , None

4.62

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