8 best-selling russia books like The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service

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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By: Robert Service

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ru…

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Cover of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings

1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

By: Max Hastings

4.06

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

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2. Doctor Zhivago

By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more

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  • historical
  • russia
"Only the superfluous is sordid"

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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3. 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
  • nonfiction
"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

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4. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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  • russia
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

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5. The Twelve Caesars

By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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6. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

By: Robert K. Massie

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • russian history

7. Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

By: Ben Macintyre

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most re… read more

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8. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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9. Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire

By: Dominic Lieven

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

What is there new to say about Russia's last monarch? Almost everything. Previous biographies have … read more

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10. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War

By: Peter Hart

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist World War I altered the landscape of the m… read more

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11. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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12. The Romanovs: 1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.17

Format: None pages,

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more

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13. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • russian history
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15. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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17. 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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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Lenin the Dictator

By: Victor Sebestyen

4.25

Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition

'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An e… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
"In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours."

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

"If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die..."

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

"The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democra…"

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

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19. The Shortest History of England

By: James Hawes

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

As James Hawes moves through time, from Caesar to Brexit, through conquests, empires and wars, he w… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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20. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service

21. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By: Robert Service

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ru… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • russian revolution
  • historical
  • politics
  • romanovs
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • russian history

13 best-selling history books like The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Robert K. Massie

3.33

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13 must-read classics books like The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves, Michael Grant, Suetonius

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

Adrian Goldsworthy

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Fall of the Roman Republic

Plutarch , Rex Warner , Robin Seager

4.10

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