Secret History of World War II, The: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations
By: Neil Kagan
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From top secret spy missions to recently declassified WWII documents, this richly illustrated accou…
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1. Call To Arms (The Corps, #2)
By: W.E.B. Griffin
4.34
Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The attack on Pearl Harbor swept America into the raging heart of the war. The stormy South Pacific… read more
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2. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
By: Alex Kershaw
4.17
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under t… read more
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3. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
By: Nikolaus Wachsmann
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of th… read more
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4. The Cold War: A New History
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the g… read more
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"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
5. The Nuremberg Trials
By: Ann Tusa , John Tusa
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This well researched book exposes the many different facets of the Nuremberg Trial. Using a variety… read more
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6. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By: Colin Woodard
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more
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7. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of B… read more
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8. 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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9. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters
3.95
Format: 288 pages,
They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more
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10. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more
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11. The Second World War
By: Antony Beevor
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier hist… read more
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12. The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.41
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidl… read more
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"At one time Stephen had been marooned on a bare rock in the South Atlantic, and his only drink was the warm rainwater that remained in the guano-filled hollows. It had been more disagreeable than Mrs…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jac…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, 'but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw - do this, do that, gluppit the prawling stra…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"Stephen Maturin sipped his scalding coffee, the right Mocha berry, brought back from Arabia Felix in the pilgrim dhows, and considered. He was naturally a reserved and even a secretive man: his illeg…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
13. The Cold War: A World History
By: Odd Arne Westad
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact … read more
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14. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
By: Richard J. Evans
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more
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15. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
16. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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17. 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,
The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more
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18. Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion
By: Peter F. Stevens
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunionby Peter F. Stevens reveals the incr… read more
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19. The Last Jew of Treblinka
By: Chil Rajchman
4.35
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
Before me sits a young woman. I cut off her hair, thick and beautiful, and she grasps my hand and b… read more
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"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!"-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed. I no longer know where I am in the world."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
20. The Oregon Trail
By: Francis Parkman
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing fr… read more
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21. From Beirut to Jerusalem
By: Thomas L. Friedman
4.07
Format: 154 pages,
This extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about… read more
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22. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By: Michael Pollan
3.72
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more
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23. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
By: Alexander Mikaberidze
4.34
Format: 936 pages, Hardcover
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more
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24. Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.09
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seri… read more
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25. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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26. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
By: Clarissa Ward
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict rep… read more
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27. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
By: Kai-Fu Lee
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a le… read more
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"Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
28. War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941–1945
By: James Sidney Lucas
3.70
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces sto… read more
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29. Secret History of World War II, The: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations
By: Neil Kagan
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From top secret spy missions to recently declassified WWII documents, this richly illustrated accou… read more
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30. Genetic Engineering: Progress and Controversy
By: Scientific American
4.20
Format: None pages, None
Genetic engineering, which refers to the direct manipulation of DNA, became a reality in the 1970s.… read more
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