13 must-read nonfiction books like A Brief History of Spain by Jeremy Black

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A Brief History of Spain

By: Jeremy Black

3.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully concise and very readable history of Spain, perfect for travellers This is the ext…

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1. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

By: Simon Winder

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra

By: Toby Wilkinson

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.41

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

The balance of King Arthur's unified kingdom is threatened by Merlin's quest for the last of Britai… read more

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"If you understand everything, then there is no room for magic."

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

"Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, a…"

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

"But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left f…"

-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

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5. Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.43

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make t… read more

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"Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea."

-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)

"Quando a gente está com problemas é útil descobrir alguém que esteve na mesma dificuldade."

-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)

"Se gli uomini possono comprare la legge, diceva sempre Artù, allora la legge diventa inutile."

-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)

"Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it."

-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)

6. The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519

By: Christopher Hibbert

3.74

Format: 70 pages,

The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissanc… read more

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7. Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more

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8. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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9. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more

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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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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12. Found

By: Erin Kinsley

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

When 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. … read more

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13. The World: A Family History of Humanity

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.00

Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

By: Thor Hanson

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

- Треть нашего рациона состоит из «пчелозависимых» продуктов.- Гималайские виды шмелей способны лет… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, amo…"

-Thor Hanson, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

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15. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

By: Bettany Hughes

4.02

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

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17. Budapest: Between East and West

By: Victor Sebestyen

4.29

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarot… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Rebel

By: Rahaf Mohammed

4.21

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family an… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

By: Toby Wilkinson

3.97

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptolo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. A Short History of London

By: Simon Jenkins

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

London: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and rule… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. A Brief History of Spain

By: Jeremy Black

3.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully concise and very readable history of Spain, perfect for travellers This is the ext… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Black's A Brief History of Spain book and Jeremy Black's A Brief History of Spain

  • history
  • spanish history
  • nonfiction
  • spain

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3.50

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Simon Winder

4.12

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Toby Wilkinson

4.20

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Dan Jones

4.41

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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Natalie Haynes

4.05

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Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

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Bettany Hughes

4.02

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David Gibbins

3.44

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