5 best-selling world war i books like Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard

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Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War

By: Jörn Leonhard

4.37

Format: 1060 pages, Hardcover

In this monumental history of World War I, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's f…

If you liked the world war i plot in Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski

1. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

By: Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the ci… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes

2. The Crimean War: A History

By: Orlando Figes

4.06

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests."

-Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History

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3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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4. Young Stalin

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Young Stalintells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, of doubtful p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Gulag

By: Anne Applebaum

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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6. The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

By: Shelby Foote

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the histo… read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1) by Ian Kershaw

7. Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)

By: Ian Kershaw

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

8. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

By: Herbert P. Bix

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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9. 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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  • world war i
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history

10. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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  • 20th century
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11. The Korean War

By: Max Hastings

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Hitler, #2) by Ian Kershaw

12. Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Hitler, #2)

By: Ian Kershaw

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The New Yorkerdeclared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to defini… read more

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  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

13. The Comanche Empire

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more

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14. Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

By: Carlos M.N. Eire

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes t… read more

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15. Wilson

By: A. Scott Berg

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitiv… read more

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16. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

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17. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more

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18. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more

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19. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

By: Orlando Figes

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orl… read more

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20. The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914

By: Margaret MacMillan

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with … read more

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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze

22. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

4.34

Format: 936 pages, Hardcover

Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll

23. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

By: Ian W. Toll

4.76

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"

-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

Cover of Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–41 (War in the Far East, #1) by Peter Harmsen

24. Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–41 (War in the Far East, #1)

By: Peter Harmsen

4.35

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

War in the Asia Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman

25. 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder

By: Arthur Herman

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set th… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich

26. Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45

By: Volker Ullrich

4.60

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated their autho… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis by Volker Ullrich

27. Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

By: Volker Ullrich

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough kno… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 20th century
  • audiobook
Cover of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank

28. Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942

By: Richard B. Frank

4.43

Format: 751 pages, Hardcover

In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s popu… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands by Alexander    Watson

29. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands

By: Alexander Watson

4.13

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

In the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a s… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 20th century
Cover of A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid

30. A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By: Anna Reid

3.96

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial … read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard

31. Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War

By: Jörn Leonhard

4.37

Format: 1060 pages, Hardcover

In this monumental history of World War I, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's f… read more

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7 Best audiobook books like Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard

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How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

Alexander Mikaberidze

4.34

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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

Ian W. Toll

4.76

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Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–41 (War in the Far East, #1)

Peter Harmsen

4.35

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

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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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