17 best-selling history books like Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot

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Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

By: John Foot

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a coun…

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1. The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history

2. 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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3. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more

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4. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more

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5. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

By: Adam Tooze

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more

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6. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • italy
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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9. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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10. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • italy
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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11. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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13. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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14. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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16. Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

By: Agnès Poirier

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collabora… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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19. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP

By: Ronan McGreevy

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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21. Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

By: John Foot

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a coun… read more

Similar categories in John Foot's Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism book and John Foot's Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

  • italy
  • world war i
  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • italian literature

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