Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943
By: Carlo D'Este
4.25
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Bitter Victory illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatme…
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1. American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
By: Vince Flynn
4.25
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Mitch Rapp is a gifted college athlete who just wants retribution for the Pan Am Lockerbie attack. … read more
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"The shock, the pain, the agonizing self-pity over the fact that he would never see her again, never hold her, never smell her, the list went on, and on, and on like some pounding surf that threatened…"-Vince Flynn, American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
2. A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge
By: Charles B. MacDonald
4.16
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.… read more
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3. In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
By: David Reynolds
4.14
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from … read more
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4. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
5. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
By: Saul Friedländer
4.24
Format: 870 pages, Hardcover
With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more
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"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
6. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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7. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
9. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
10. On War
By: Michael Eliot Howard , Carl von Clausewitz , Peter Paret
3.75
Format: None pages,
Carl von Clausewitz's On Warhas been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great boo… read more
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11. Gettysburg
By: Stephen W. Sears
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more
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12. The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
By: John Lukacs
3.74
Format: 168 pages,
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13. Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign Of France And Germany, 1944-1945
By: Russell F. Weigley
3.75
Format: None pages,
CONTENTS Preface PartOne: The Armies Part Two: Normandy Part Three: France Part Four: The Disputed … read more
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14. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.90
Format: None pages,
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in … read more
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15. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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16. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
17. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
18. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
19. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
By: Rick Atkinson
4.43
Format: 776 pages, Hardcover
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more
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20. Fear: Trump in the White House
By: Bob Woodward
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodw… read more
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"He’s a fucking moron,"-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
21. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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22. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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23. Takeover (Galaxy's Edge #11; Season Two: Book One)
By: Jason Anspach
4.41
Format: 500 pages, Kindle Edition
Every disaster brings an opportunity. Goth Sullus and his empire have fallen. With the Legion and t… read more
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24. Dark Victory (Galaxy's Edge, #13; Season 2, #2)
By: Jason Anspach
4.62
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkest Secrets Stay Hidden Galaxy’s Edge Season Two continues as a divided galaxy is navigate… read more
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25. Savage Wars (Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars, #1)
By: Jason Anspach
4.44
Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER 2020 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction Novel! The greatest conflict the galaxy… read more
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26. Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943
By: Carlo D'Este
4.25
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Bitter Victory illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatme… read more
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27. The Hundred (Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars, #3)
By: Jason Anspach
4.62
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
THE LEGION HAS LANDED. One-hundred men met the brutal standards of General Tyrus Rechs and becam… read more
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"I mean snorted MacAfee as he went on. It's not a lie, I am not calling Tyrus rex a liar I would never do that. I would never call that man anything derogatory, if only because he can kill you like 60…"-Jason Anspach, The Hundred (Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars, #3)
28. Legacies (Galaxy's Edge, #12; Season 2, #1)
By: Jason Anspach
4.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
With his duty to the Legion satisfied, Wraith sets out to find a lost member of his crew—the young … read more
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29. Last Contact (Galaxy's Edge, #16; Season 2, #5)
By: Jason Anspach
4.57
Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition
Galaxy's Edge Season 2 continues as Wraith discovers crucial intel about the threat that past The G… read more
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30. Convergence (Galaxy's Edge, #14; Season 2, #3)
By: Jason Anspach
4.44
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Allies and enemies grow their forces.... As the galaxy marches headlong toward the greatest thre… read more
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31. Remains (Galaxy's Edge, #15; Season 2, #4)
By: Jason Anspach
4.42
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
The Legion has landed… The Republic world of Kima has fallen with shocking speed to the renewed … read more
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