21 Best history books like The Kaiser: War Lord of the Second Reich by Alan Warwick Palmer

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The Kaiser: War Lord of the Second Reich

By: Alan Warwick Palmer

3.79

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

He was, in the minds of many, the man responsible for the catastrophe that engulfed Europe in 1914.…

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1. The Radicalism of the American Revolution

By: Gordon S. Wood

4.08

Format: 447 pages, Paperback

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analys… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a so…"

-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

"The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcel…"

-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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2. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

By: James Shapiro

4.08

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous pl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History

By: Orlando Figes

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula

By: M.J. Trow

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

For many, Vlad the Impaler is the bloodsucking torturer recreated in Hollywood's Interview with the… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

By: Ian Mortimer

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he taxed his people more than … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Caesar: Life of a Colossus

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

8. To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

By: Tad Williams

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

As the evil minions of the undead Sithi Storm King prepare for the kingdom-shattering culmination o… read more

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9. From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible

By: Eric H. Cline

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the H… read more

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10. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

By: Bruce Levine

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that confl… read more

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11. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By: Ian Mortimer

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

12. The Roman Revolution

By: Ronald Syme

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The Roman Revolutionis a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the R… read more

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13. The Road to Culloden Moor: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 Rebellion

By: Diana Preston

4.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

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14. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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15. Don't Look Behind You and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #15)

By: Ann Rule

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

I'll be watching you. Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As the… read more

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16. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • world war i
  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
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18. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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20. The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome

By: Nick Holmes

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

It was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

By: Mary Renault

3.98

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not prete… read more

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"Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

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22. Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

By: James McMurtry Longo

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsbur… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. The Usurper King: The Fall of Richard II and the Rise of Henry of Bolingbroke, 1366-99

By: Marie Louise Bruce

4.19

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

An in-depth study of an astounding moment in English medieval history. Ideal for people who wish to… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. 1945: The World We Fought For (The Second World War Book 2)

By: Robert Kee

4.25

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

1945, the year in which the Second World War ended, was also the year in which our modern world beg… read more

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25. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By: Richard White

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Michigan's Strychnine Saint: The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight by Tobin T. Buhk

26. Michigan's Strychnine Saint: The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight

By: Tobin T. Buhk

3.72

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

“A historically accurate picture of the characters involved in the complicated frontier-era poisoni… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. The Emperor Charlemagne

By: E.R. Chamberlin

4.02

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

An authoritative biography of the greatest ruler of the medieval period. The Emperor Charlemagne is… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. BUNKER 1945 - The Last Ten Days of ADOLF HITLER

By: Christian Shakespeare

4.11

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1923 during the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler threatened to blow his brains out. Twenty-… read more

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  • history
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29. The Moonlight Mill Murders of Steubenville, Ohio (True Crime)

By: Susan M. Guy

3.45

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

“Guy is not only a historian but a longtime police officer in Ohio, bringing firsthand knowledge of… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Making of Eastern Europe: From Prehistory to Postcommunism

By: Philip Longworth

3.84

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

Why has the collapse of Communism resulted in so much disappointment for the hopeful millions of Ea… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Kaiser: War Lord of the Second Reich

By: Alan Warwick Palmer

3.79

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

He was, in the minds of many, the man responsible for the catastrophe that engulfed Europe in 1914.… read more

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  • world war i
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  • biography
  • military fiction
  • germany
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