8 Top nonfiction books like Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings by Brian Glyn Williams

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Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings

By: Brian Glyn Williams

4.00

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of…

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1. In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

By: Seth G. Jones

3.86

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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2. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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3. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

By: Steve Coll

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Warsis the most… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • terrorism

4. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

By: Lawrence Wright

4.16

Format: 208 pages,

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5. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"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

6. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more

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7. Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya, New Edition

By: None

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountainstells the story of the confli… read more

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8. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. The Books of Jacob

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.02

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more

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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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10. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
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11. The Searcher

By: Tana French

3.80

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up th… read more

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12. Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

By: Joshua Yaffa

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Without a clear moral vision, Meylac thought, all that’s left are careerism and bureaucratic efficiency."

-Joshua Yaffa, Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

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13. Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings

By: Brian Glyn Williams

4.00

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • terrorism

8 best-selling history books like Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings by Brian Glyn Williams

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Seth G. Jones

3.86

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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll

5.00

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William L. Shirer

4.21

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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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David McCullough

4.09

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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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