The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception
By: Taylor Downing
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On 29 May 1944 General George S. Patton gave a speech in the south-east of England to the men of hi…
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1. Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.20
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
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2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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3. Ajax, the Dutch, the War : Football in Europe During the Second World War
By: Simon Kuper
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In Football Against the Enemy Simon Kuper crossed the globe in search of the links between football… read more
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4. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
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5. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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6. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.22
Format: None pages,
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7. American War
By: Omar El Akkad
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
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8. Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.16
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil; an … read more
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"Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
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9. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
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"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
10. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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11. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. A Winter Grave
By: Peter May
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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14. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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15. Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945
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4.22
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)
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3.93
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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17. 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School
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3.96
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18. Scheisse! We're Going Up!
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4.42
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
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19. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
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3.98
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4.07
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21. To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)
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4.33
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
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22. A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
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3.96
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23. The Beacon Bike: Around England and Wales in 327 Lighthouses
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3.43
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24. MiG Alley: The US Air Force in Korea, 1950–53
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25. Death in the Highlands: The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me
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4.34
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
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26. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
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4.17
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27. The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception
By: Taylor Downing
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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28. Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
By: Saul David
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
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29. Double Proof
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4.25
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
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3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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