The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Football Shaped the Modern Game
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1953, the Mighty Magyars beat England 6-3 at Wembley, a result that echoes through the history o…
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1. 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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"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
2. Soccer in Sun and Shadow
By: Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Discussing everything from the leveling of the Twin Towers to the death of the sole survivor of tha… read more
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"و كان لدى الرب وقت ليهتم بشئون كرة القدم، فكم من مسئوليها سيبقون أحياءً"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"¿En qué se parece el fútbol a Dios? En la devoción que le tienen muchos creyentes y en la desconfianza que le tienen muchos intelectuales"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"[Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman…"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
"Han pasado los años, y a la larga he terminado por asumir mi identidad: yo no soy más que un mendigo de buen fútbol. Voy por el mundo sombrero en mano, y en los estadios suplico: una linda jugadita, …"-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
3. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
By: Duncan Hamilton
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall-outs, the dr… read more
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4. A Killing Frost (Inspector Frost, #6)
By: R.D. Wingfield
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre disco… read more
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5. El Diego: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Footballer
By: Diego Armando Maradona
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain? One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of hi… read more
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6. The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy
By: Joe McGinniss
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor l… read more
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7. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- history
8. Netherland
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.71
Format: 160 pages,
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the… read more
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9. Soccernomics
By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper
4.67
Format: 88 pages,
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more
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10. The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
By: Chris Anderson , David Sally
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Moneyballmeets Freakonomicsin this myth-busting guide to understanding--and winning--the most popul… read more
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11. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
"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
12. Christine
By: Stephen King , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
"This is the story of a lover's triangle...It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry."… read more
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13. La ciudad y los perros
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback
En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibia el Premio Biblioteca Breve. Asi comenzaba la andadura liter… read more
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14. Jag är Zlatan: Zlatans egen berättelse
By: David Lagercrantz , Zlatan Ibrahimović
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile--no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of so… read more
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15. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
By: Michael Cox
3.88
Format: 496 pages,
An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more
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16. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
17. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
18. My Life in Red and White
By: Arsène Wenger
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his … read more
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19. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- history
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
20. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
By: Lesley M.M. Blume
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter un… read more
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"History is history,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"Hiroshima was a decimated “death laboratory"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"War is ethically totally different from peace,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"I covered it up, and John Hersey uncovered it,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
21. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football
By: Michael Cox
4.37
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more
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22. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
By: Simon Kuper
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more
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23. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
By: Eric Idle
3.90
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python - from the Flying Circus to The Meanin… read more
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"Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
"I have British teeth. They are like British politics: they go in all directions at once."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
"If one of the best ways to appreciate life is to have an unhappy childhood, I was very fortunate."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
"Once you’re in the circus you’re all in the circus, and of course it turns out that they are real people too."-Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
24. 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans
By: James Montague
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
You can see us, but you don't know us. Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, … read more
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25. Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution
By: Ryan O'Hanlon
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding aroun… read more
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26. Tears at La Bombonera: Stories from a Six-Year Sojourn in South America
By: Christopher Hylland
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Tears at La Bombonera is author Christopher Hylland's six-year journey living, working, and traveli… read more
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27. Welcome to Hell?: In Search of the Real Turkish Football
By: John McManus
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe… read more
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28. The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Football Shaped the Modern Game
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1953, the Mighty Magyars beat England 6-3 at Wembley, a result that echoes through the history o… read more
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29. The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide To Football Glory: The Story of Béla Guttman
By: David Bolchover
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar footbal… read more
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30. Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia
By: Chris Etchingham
3.97
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
In 1987, a Zvonimir Boban-inspired Yugoslavia won the World Under-20 Championships in Chile, and a … read more
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31. Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
By: Rhys Richards
4.15
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu… read more
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