Louis XIV
By: Olivier Bernier
4.05
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
Louis XIV - the Sun King or Louis the Great, as he was also known - ruled France with an iron fist …
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1. The Great Democracies (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #4)
By: Winston S. Churchill
4.67
Format: 112 pages,
The fourth of Churchill's grandly ambitious four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoplesbe… read more
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- history
2. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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- history
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
3. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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4. Sisi: Empress on Her Own (Sisi, #2)
By: Allison Pataki
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
In this sweeping and powerful novel, New York Timesbestselling author Allison Pataki tells the litt… read more
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- historical
5. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
By: Tom Reiss
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical… read more
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- history
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6. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more
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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Peter the Great: His Life and World
By: Robert K. Massie
4.14
Format: 909 pages, Paperback
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more
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- history
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- european history
9. Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more
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10. Lafayette
By: Harlow Giles Unger
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Acclaim for Lafayette "I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account … read more
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11. The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
By: Ian Mortimer
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he taxed his people more than … read more
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12. The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
By: Tom Sancton
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Was the world s wealthiest woman Liliane Bettencourt heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar… read more
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13. The Age of Revolution (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #3)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
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14. The New World (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #2)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Unknown Binding
Sir Winston Churchill's classic History of the English-Speaking Peoples; with an introduction by An… read more
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15. The Birth of Britain (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #1)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.28
Format: 404 pages,
"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own… read more
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16. The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
By: Leanda de Lisle
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times Bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic stor… read more
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17. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for … read more
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18. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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19. 1415: Henry V's Year Of Glory
By: Ian Mortimer
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionized in his own day for his victory at Agincourt… read more
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20. A Place of Greater Safety
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danto… read more
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21. Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois, #1)
By: Alexandre Dumas
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Released to coincide with the new Miramac film starring Isabelle Adjani, this is the classic novel … read more
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22. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
23. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- biography
- historical
- nonfiction
- european history
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
24. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
25. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
4.21
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more
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- france
- european history
26. Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
By: Leonie Frieda
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative… read more
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27. One Minute Out (Gray Man, #9)
By: Mark Greaney
4.46
Format: 529 pages, Kindle Edition
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR THE CITY OF ANGELS While on a mission to Croatia, Court Gentry uncovers a h… read more
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28. The Usurper King: The Fall of Richard II and the Rise of Henry of Bolingbroke, 1366-99
By: Marie Louise Bruce
4.19
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
An in-depth study of an astounding moment in English medieval history. Ideal for people who wish to… read more
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29. King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
By: Philip Mansel
4.09
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Louis XIV wanted to conquer time and space - to push the borders of France which he inherited out i… read more
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30. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.42
Format: 887 pages, Hardcover
In six weeks in 1940, France's armies were decisively beaten by Germany. A junior French general, r… read more
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31. Louis XIV
By: Olivier Bernier
4.05
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
Louis XIV - the Sun King or Louis the Great, as he was also known - ruled France with an iron fist … read more
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