Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
By: Richard Bassett
3.88
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen mon…
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1. I Bought a Mountain
By: Thomas Firbank
4.00
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
We are pleased to announce that we are now the exclusive North American distributor of this fine li… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
3. Every Man Dies Alone
By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes
4.26
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more
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- world war ii
- historical
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"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
4. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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- history
- politics
- military fiction
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
5. 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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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
6. The Lost World
By: Michael Crichton
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary d… read more
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7. The Plot Against America
By: Philip Roth
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more
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8. 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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- history
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- nonfiction
9. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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- history
- historical
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
10. The First And The Last
By: Adolf Galland
2.74
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaf… read more
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- history
- biography
- military fiction
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
11. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
By: Frank W. Abagnale , Stan Redding
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sen… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
12. 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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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
13. Life and Fate
By: Vasily Grossman , Robert Chandler
4.09
Format: 156 pages,
Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnik… read more
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14. First Light
By: Geoffrey Wellum
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In First Light, Geoffrey Wellum tells the inspiring, often terrifying true story of his coming of … 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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- history
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
"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. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
17. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more
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18. The Monk
By: None
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more
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19. Inside the Third Reich
By: Albert Speer
4.23
Format: None pages,
Written by Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, the man who kept Germany armed and th… read more
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20. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
By: William Craig
4.25
Format: None pages,
Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more
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21. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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22. 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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23. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- history
- biography
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- war
- nonfiction
24. The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi
By: Daniel Lee
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping inve… read more
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- biography
- historical
- military fiction
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
25. Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
By: Larry Loftis
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy The year is 1942, and Wo… read more
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- espionage
- history
- biography
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans."-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
"When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause."-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
26. Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
By: John C. McManus
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen… read more
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- military fiction
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
27. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
By: David Attenborough
4.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more
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- biography
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"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
28. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed
By: Jim Popkin
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 24 minutes The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in U… read more
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- espionage
- history
- biography
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
29. 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
By: Heather Dune Macadam
4.54
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A PEN America Literary Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee An Amazon Best of the Yea… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
30. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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- world war ii
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31. Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
By: Richard Bassett
3.88
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen mon… read more
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