11 Best nonfiction books like No Colours or Crest by Peter Kemp

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No Colours or Crest

By: Peter Kemp

4.44

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Europe, 1940. Years of rising tension have finally given way to a global catastrophe. Millions mobi…

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Cover of Apollo: The Race To The Moon by Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox

1. Apollo: The Race To The Moon

By: Charles Murray , Catherine Bly Cox

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Out of print for fifteen years, this is the classic account of how the United States got to the moo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. On the Marble Cliffs

By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger

3.80

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more

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  • 20th century
"The downfall of order brings good to none."

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

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3. The Adventurer

By: Mika Waltari , Naomi Walford

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fictional tale of a young Finnish man, Mikael Karvajalka, set in 16th century medieval Europe. read more

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4. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
  • history
  • memoir
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5. Concrete Island

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over th… read more

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6. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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7. The Comedians

By: Paul Theroux , Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Ton… read more

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Cover of Maigret on the Defensive by Georges Simenon

8. Maigret on the Defensive

By: Georges Simenon

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Maigret's career is at stake when he is accused of immoral behavior, by a young girl of an excellen… read more

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9. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue by Samuel E.  Chamberlain, W.H. Goetzmann

10. My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue

By: Samuel E. Chamberlain , W.H. Goetzmann

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Samuel Chamberlain's My Confessionis a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
  • history
  • memoir
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11. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke

4.42

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Love lives only by sacrifice"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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12. Maigret and the Bum

By: Jean Stewart , Georges Simenon

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

A homeless man is found beaten and unconscious along the banks of the Seine. Inspector Maigret must… read more

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13. A Message to Garcia

By: Elbert Hubbard

4.13

Format: 334 pages,

This famous motivational magazine article became an international phenomenon in the early 20th Cent… read more

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14. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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15. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

16. 無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 (Mushoku Tensei, #1)

By: Rifujin na Magonote , Shirotaka

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

34Sui Wu Zhi Tong Zhen nonitohaWu Yi Wen deJia woZhui iChu sare, Zi Fen noRen Sheng gaWan Quan niJi… read more

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17. For My Legionaries

By: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

4.19

Format: 496 pages,

This is an autobiographical book in which Corneliu Zelea Codreanu expressed his political and spiri… read more

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18. 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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19. The Conquest of New Spain

By: Bernal Díaz del Castillo , John Michael Cohen

3.67

Format: 542 pages,

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20. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson

21. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

By: Rick Atkinson

4.43

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

22. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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23. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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24. Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

By: Fernando Cervantes

3.90

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, authoritative history that aims to deepen our understanding of the campaigns and conque… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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25. Gothic Violence

By: Mike Ma

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

GOTHIC VIOLENCE is a fictional dark comedy by author, Mike Ma. Though is a continuation of the firs… read more

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"I spend every day of my life arguing with myself. Inside of my head, arguing with my own thoughts. Full conversations with resolutions, agreements, new outcomes."

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"The longer you stay up past sunset, the darker your thoughts may become. Waves of regret, of loneliness, of fear. All-nighters, unless navigated in a specific way, can lead one to suicide by sunset."

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"Technology is not new. If you were to go back, before or around the life of Christ, you would see wars fought with energy weapons and colossal machines. You would see angels in a military fashion wit…"

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"Amadeus Mozart, Adolf Hitler, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were all born in Austria. Not very far from one another. How does a country produce these three men in just under two centuries time? Who will …"

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

Cover of Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel by Pyotr Wrangel

26. Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel

By: Pyotr Wrangel

4.48

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Russia, 1917. As World War I drags on, political turmoil slowly paralyzes the Empire. The Czar abdi… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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27. No Colours or Crest

By: Peter Kemp

4.44

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Europe, 1940. Years of rising tension have finally given way to a global catastrophe. Millions mobi… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • poland
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
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28. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

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29. The Long Moonlight

By: RazörFist

3.72

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

MENUVIA A sparkling gem made rough stone, the seat of political power in the Kingdom of Vale. Re… read more

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30. Lord Miles in Afghanistan: The Travel Diary of a Modern-Day British Adventurer During the 2021 Taliban Takeover

By: Routledge, Lord Miles

3.92

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

On August 15th, 2021, the nation of Afghanistan passed from West back to East. On that day the vict… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Complete Memoirs of Serge Obolensky: One Man in His Time by Serge Obolensky

31. The Complete Memoirs of Serge Obolensky: One Man in His Time

By: Serge Obolensky

4.41

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Few men lived lives larger than Serge Obolensky. Born to one of Imperial Russia's great aristocrati… read more

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Apollo: The Race To The Moon

Charles Murray , Catherine Bly Cox

4.52

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Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

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The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

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My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue

Samuel E. Chamberlain , W.H. Goetzmann

3.48

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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