Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
By: Gordon Thomas
4.16
Format: 550 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resi…
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1. Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
By: Dan Jones
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets, a short, lively, action-packed h… read more
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- history
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2. Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by … read more
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3. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
By: Simon Schama
4.18
Format: None pages,
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- historical
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4. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
By: Catherine Kerrison
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about M… read more
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- history
5. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
By: Nancy Isenberg
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more
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6. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- history
- war
7. On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
By: Robert M. Poole
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of America's most sacred ground. "Along Eisenhower Drive, … read more
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8. The Anatomy of Fascism
By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more
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9. Bury the Chains
By: Adam Hochschild
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of on… read more
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10. Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
By: Dan Jones
4.00
Format: 268 pages,
Re-evaluation of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Dan Jones brings to life the squalor, drama and comp… read more
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11. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
By: None
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more
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12. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
By: Erik Larson
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more
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13. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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14. Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
By: Sarah Helm
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II--Rav… read more
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15. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
By: Kurt Andersen
3.91
Format: None pages,
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16. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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- nonfiction
17. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
By: Burkhard Bilger
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more
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- historical
- germany
- war
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- nonfiction
18. The Lost Vintage
By: Ann Mah
4.03
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her famil… read more
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- world war ii
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19. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
20. Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
By: Robert Matzen
3.85
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars… read more
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- historical
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- adult
"When my mother wanted to teach me a lesson about life,' said Luca Dotti, 'she never used stories about her career. She always told stories about the war. The war was very, very important to her. It m…"-Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
21. War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
By: Ronan Farrow
4.15
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"What happened to the missing prisoners? How did these men and boys end up in such a tomb, in such a place? And, a question no one inside the US government wanted to touch for more than a decade after…"-Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
22. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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- adult
- history
- nonfiction
23. Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir
By: Aron Goldfarb
4.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
The remarkable autobiography of a Holocaust escapee. “Go on, my son. Maybe you will survive…” … read more
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24. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
By: Kurt Andersen
4.22
Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells t… read more
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- history
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"Such a colossal irony: after socialists and Communists in the 1930s and then the New Left in the 1960s had tried and failed to achieve a radical class-based reordering of the American political econo…"-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
"...In all this, financialization has done what people back in the 1950s and '60s and '70s worried and warned that the Communists would do if they took over: centralize control of the economy, turn Am…"-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
"...Libertarians fantasize that they're action heroes and entirely self-made. They tend to exempt themselves from the truism that there but for the grace of God goes each one of them, because an impli…"-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
"...The economic right was shrewd enough to understand that the issues they didn't care much about--abortion, gay rights, creationism--did matter to liberals, and that those culture wars drew off poli…"-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
25. Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
By: Julian E. Zelizer
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era … read more
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26. Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
By: James B. Stewart
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Instant New York Times Bestseller "Important and stunning. This is must-read material if you want… read more
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27. Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
By: Jeremy W. Peters
4.12
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From a Washington reporter for The New York… read more
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28. A Brief History of Fascist Lies
By: Federico Finchelstein
3.52
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."––Jason Stanley, a… read more
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29. Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
By: Gordon Thomas
4.16
Format: 550 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resi… read more
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- adult
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30. Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
By: Neal Bascomb
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by a… read more
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