9 Top history books like Richelieu and the French Monarchy by C.V. Wedgwood

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Richelieu and the French Monarchy

By: C.V. Wedgwood

3.95

Format: 155 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the measure of Richelieu's greatness that it should be so difficult to imagine the growth of …

If you liked the history plot in Richelieu and the French Monarchy by C.V. Wedgwood , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Keep

By: Jennifer Egan

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and… read more

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"That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to."

-Jennifer Egan, The Keep

"It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wrecka…"

-Jennifer Egan, The Keep

"All that love, all that pain, all the stuff people feel – not just me and you, brother, but everyone, everyone who's ever walked this beautiful green planet – how can all that disappear when somebody…"

-Jennifer Egan, The Keep

"I smoked my first pipe with Seth. I knew the stuff was bad, but I was so tired of being the cop, begging and ragging at him, throwing Pampers in his face when he walked in the door. I wanted to be on…"

-Jennifer Egan, The Keep

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2. 1776

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more

Similar categories in David McCullough's 1776 book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-David McCullough, 1776

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

-David McCullough, 1776

"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."

-David McCullough, 1776

"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

-David McCullough, 1776

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3. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By: Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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4. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more

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5. Paul Revere's Ride

By: David Hackett Fischer

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Paul Revere's midnight ride is a legendary event in American history - yet it has been largely igno… read more

Similar categories in David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

6. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more

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7. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 64 pages,

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more

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8. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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9. The Emperor's Soul

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Also available in . A heretic thief is the empire's only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabi… read more

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10. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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11. 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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12. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

Similar categories in Vladislav M. Zubok's Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

Similar categories in Marc Morris's The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066 book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

By: Bart Van Loo

4.31

Format: 607 pages, Hardcover

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more

Similar categories in Bart Van Loo's De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • politics
  • france
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Dutch Revolt

By: Geoffrey Parker

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Parker, Geoffrey read more

Similar categories in Geoffrey Parker's The Dutch Revolt book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Richelieu and the French Monarchy

By: C.V. Wedgwood

3.95

Format: 155 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the measure of Richelieu's greatness that it should be so difficult to imagine the growth of … read more

Similar categories in C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy book and C.V. Wedgwood's Richelieu and the French Monarchy

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • france
  • nonfiction

6 Top politics books like Richelieu and the French Monarchy by C.V. Wedgwood

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Transform Your Habits

De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

Bart Van Loo

4.31

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13 Best history books like The Dutch Revolt by Geoffrey Parker

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A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Volume 1: From Beginnings to 1807

None , Anthony R. Disney

4.12

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The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806

Jonathan I. Israel

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

4.12

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