The Manhattan Project: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Al Cimino
4.07
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out …
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1. The Lost World of Bletchley Park: The Official Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre
By: Sinclair McKay
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The huge success of Sinclair's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - a quarter of a million copies so… read more
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- world war ii
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2. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
By: Ian Fleming
3.91
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more
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"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
3. The Ends of Power
By: H.R. Haldeman
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Haldeman recalls his years as White House Chief of Staff, answers important remaining questions abo… read more
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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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"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. Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3)
By: James Clavell
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House...the directdescendant of the … read more
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6. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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7. Shadows of the Stone Benders (Anlon Cully Chronicles, #1)
By: K. Patrick Donoghue
3.83
Format: None pages,
For fans of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon novels, a riveting, action-packed thriller. World-renowned s… read more
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8. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
9. Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
By: Kevin Maurer , None
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before.Lions of Kandaha… read more
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10. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
By: Jennet Conant
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited… read more
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12. Absolute Power
By: David Baldacci
4.24
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world's ri… read more
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13. The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
By: Skyler Ramirez
4.08
Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition
A Military Science Fiction Adventure! Brad Mendoza is an idiot. He knows it, and so does everyon… read more
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14. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
By: Evan Thomas
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more
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15. A Winter Grave
By: Peter May
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more
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16. Surviving to Drive
By: Guenther Steiner
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more
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"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive
17. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- history
18. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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19. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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20. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
21. Wings of Vengeance: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 2)
By: Scott Cook
4.29
Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition
There is a price to be paid for treachery… and the balance is due in flame!The United States is ree… read more
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22. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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23. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)
By: Terence Robertson
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more
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24. Coral Sea 1942: Turning the Tide
By: Richard Freeman
4.14
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
In May 1942, the Americans discovered the Japanese planned to take Port Moresby in New Guinea. Aft… read more
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25. The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial
By: Mike Anderson
4.19
Format: 378 pages, Audiobook
'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Ex… read more
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26. Suez Crisis: A History from Beginning to End
By: Hourly History
4.39
Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the remarkable history of the Suez Crisis...Free BONUS Inside!In 1956, Britain, France, an… read more
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27. Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
By: Michael D. Leinbach
4.23
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Mike Leinbach was the launch director of the space shuttle program when Columbia disintegrated on r… read more
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28. The Bismarck Episode
By: Russell Grenfell
4.07
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
May 1941. British morale was low. The sinking of the Bismarck was a matter of life and death. But b… read more
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29. The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis
By: John Dermot Turing
3.90
Format: None pages, kindle_edition
' Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache. ' - Michael S… read more
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30. The Manhattan Project: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Al Cimino
4.07
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out … read more
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31. X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
By: Dermot Turing
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
December, 1932: In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents… read more
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