The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
By: Herbert Romerstein
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War.…
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1. 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
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
2. Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
By: Lee Child
4.19
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they… read more
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"I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence."-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
"It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of g…"-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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- espionage
- american history
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4. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
By: Henry Hazlitt
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more
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5. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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6. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
By: James Burnham
4.31
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, … read more
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"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are th…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Formally, a new election for an office many be held every year or two. But, in practice, the moere fact that an invidual has held the office in the past is thought by him and by the members to give h…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
7. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Rubiconand other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly… read more
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8. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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9. Why the Allies Won
By: Richard Overy
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany … read more
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10. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more
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11. The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
By: James Risen , Milton Bearden
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning jour… read more
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12. Beyond Enkription (The Burlington Files #1)
By: None
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in the heart of the disco fevered 1970s, the Cold War and the esca… read more
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13. 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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14. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea
By: Jang Jin-sung , Shirley Lee
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent… read more
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15. Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
By: Phil Lapsley
3.49
Format: None pages,
Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technoph… read more
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16. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
17. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more
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18. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
By: Steve Wozniak , Gina Smith
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
"iWoztraces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scie… read more
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19. Darkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more
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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
20. Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics
By: Jim Marrs , Edward T. Haslam
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping expose of … read more
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21. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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22. Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard re… read more
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23. A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
4.22
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
24. The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
By: Antonio J. Méndez
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported… read more
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25. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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26. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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27. The Prophets of Doom
By: Neema Parvini
4.16
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy… read more
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28. The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
By: Herbert Romerstein
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War.… read more
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- world war ii
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29. A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
By: Monte Reel
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed … read more
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30. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage: The Declassified Stories of Cold War Reconnaissance Flights and the Men Who Flew Them
By: Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
4.05
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to resp… read more
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31. The Spy Who Swapped Shoes (Stephen Fletcher Espionage Thrillers # 1)
By: Geoffrey Davison
3.67
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling Cold War thriller! Perfect for fans of Len Deighton, John Le Carre, Tom Clancy and Ian F… read more
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