7 Best history books like Great Military Blunders by Geoffrey Regan

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Great Military Blunders

By: Geoffrey Regan

3.56

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The other side of the coin from military genius and bravery is military incompetence - a largely pr…

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1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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2. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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4. Birdsong

By: Sebastian Faulks

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more

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  • war
Cover of Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4) by Isaac Asimov

5. Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.18

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists o… read more

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"He didn’t believe that, surely."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

"A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

"It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

"Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.' 'There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

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6. Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)

By: Tom Rob Smith

4.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent. Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, wher… read more

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7. On the Beach

By: Nevil Shute

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in south… read more

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8. Azincourt

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought by two badly matched armies that met… read more

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  • war

9. The Holy Bible: English Standard Version

By: Anonymous

3.91

Format: 241 pages,

Now the complete ESV Bible comes alive in audio format! The new ESVHear the Word Audio Bibleprovide… read more

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10. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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11. Sycamore Row

By: John Grisham

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from … read more

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12. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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13. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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14. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language book and Geoffrey Regan's Great Military Blunders

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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15. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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16. V2: A Novel of World War II

By: Robert Harris

3.91

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
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17. Terminal Boredom: Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more

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"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

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18. Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.44

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited pla… read more

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"The melatonin hit like a meteorite"

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"That was the moment he had fallen for her. It wasn't love at first sight. Hell, it wasn't even lust at first sight. But it was close enough."

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"Sometimes the universe decided to rip apart your life and stomp on the pieces, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it except say, "Now what?"

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"Perhaps it existed only to stand in contrast with the whole nature, as if to say, "We were here." Alex wasn't sure if the thought was morbid or inspiring."

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

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19. Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend

By: John Nichol

4.52

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Praise for Spitfire: A Very British Love Story ‘The best book you will ever read about Britain’s gr… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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20. Tornado Down

By: John Nichol

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

RAF Flight lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their fir… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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21. Great Military Blunders

By: Geoffrey Regan

3.56

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The other side of the coin from military genius and bravery is military incompetence - a largely pr… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

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4.23

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4.14

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4.29

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Laura Bates

4.34

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4.29

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3.80

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