The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire
By: A. Wess Mitchell
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on f…
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1. The Thirty Years War
By: Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood
4.18
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as … read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
- european history
"The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid."-Anthony Grafton, The Thirty Years War
2. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
By: Jack Vance
3.89
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more
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"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
3. My Life as an Explorer
By: Sven Hedin
4.50
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Over the course of three decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sven Hedin traveled the… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. The Fall of Yugoslavia
By: Misha Glenny
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material … read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- european history
5. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
By: Edward N. Luttwak
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this work, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Ro… read more
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6. The Red Prince
By: Timothy Snyder
3.83
Format: 28 pages,
Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg arch… read more
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- european history
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- nonfiction
7. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
By: Roger Crowley
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
8. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
9. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
10. Peter the Great: His Life and World
By: Robert K. Massie
4.14
Format: 909 pages, Paperback
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
11. Plagues and Peoples
By: William H. McNeill
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peopleswas an immediate critical and popular success, of… read more
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- history
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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13. Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
By: Adam Zamoyski
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, the French emperor's imperious grip … read more
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14. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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15. The Baron's Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution
By: Willard Sunderland
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist … read more
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16. An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples: Ethnogenesis and State Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia and the Middle East
By: Peter B. Golden
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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17. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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18. The Gods Themselves
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more
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19. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more
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- european history
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
20. 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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- nonfiction
"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
21. 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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22. Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
By: Michael Khodarkovsky
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
"Khodarkovsky provides a detailed chronological narrative of Russia's steppe relations, which conve… read more
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23. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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- history
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"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
24. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
3.95
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more
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- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
- european history
25. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
26. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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- history
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27. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
By: Sean McMeekin
4.28
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian We remember World War I… read more
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- politics
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- war
- military history
- nonfiction
28. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- history
29. New Rome: The Empire in the East
By: Paul Stephenson
3.53
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive new history of the Eastern Roman Empire based on the science of the human past. … read more
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- history
30. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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31. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire
By: A. Wess Mitchell
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on f… read more
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- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
- european history
- political science
