5 must-read biography books like De Gaulle by Aidan Crawley

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De Gaulle

By: Aidan Crawley

3.78

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A comprehensive narrative in which fact and anecdote...are combined to produce a very detailed but…

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1. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

By: Joe Studwell

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

By: Spike Milligan

4.03

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, lege… read more

Similar categories in Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1) book and Aidan Crawley's De Gaulle

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"They're all the rage, Cab Calloway wears one."

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

"After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it"

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

"Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, “Does any…"

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

"...Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Robert…"

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

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3. The Confession

By: John Grisham

3.91

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFirst time in paperbackAn innocent man is about to be executed.Only a g… read more

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"He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast."

-John Grisham, The Confession

"You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon."

-John Grisham, The Confession

"He had blown the trumpet for so long that no one heard it anymore."

-John Grisham, The Confession

"Good God, Keith." "Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance..."

-John Grisham, The Confession

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4. Rasputin: The Untold Story

By: Joseph T. Fuhrmann

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Based on new sources--the definitive biography of Rasputin, with revelations about his life, death,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

5. Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

By: Ken Follett

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This is a huge novel that follows five familie… read more

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6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

7. Funeral in Berlin

By: Len Deighton

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Mass Market Paperback

FUNERAL IN BERLIN is a spellbinding tale of espionage and its counter in which double and triple cr… read more

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8. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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9. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Mussolini

By: Nicholas Farrell

3.83

Format: 634 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The question of whether Italians had to pay too much in terms of loss of liberty has been answered… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. De Gaulle

By: Aidan Crawley

3.78

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A comprehensive narrative in which fact and anecdote...are combined to produce a very detailed but… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

7 Best history books like De Gaulle by Aidan Crawley

Transform Your Habits

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

Joe Studwell

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

Spike Milligan

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Rasputin: The Untold Story

Joseph T. Fuhrmann

4.14

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

4.38

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Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

4.16

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

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Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

3.77

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