7 Top history books like In Place of Fear by Aneurin Bevan

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In Place of Fear

By: Aneurin Bevan

4.40

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

Aneurin Bevan, socialist, democrat, individualist, was the most fascinating of politicians; In Plac…

"Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets"

-Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear

"Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets"

-Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear

"The collective principle asserts that ... no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."

-Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear

"The collective principle asserts that ... no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."

-Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear

If you liked the history plot in In Place of Fear by Aneurin Bevan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

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2. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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4. The Sign of Four

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Peter Ackroyd , Ed Glinert

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sher… read more

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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East

By: James Barr

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers - including T.E. Lawrence, Win… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Aneurin Bevan. Vol 1: 1897-1945

By: Michael Foot

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

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  • history
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8. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

By: Robert Tressell

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • politics

10. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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11. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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12. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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13. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

14. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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15. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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16. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

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17. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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18. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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19. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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20. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more

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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

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21. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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22. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

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23. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • nonfiction
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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24. Siblings

By: Brigitte Reimann

3.55

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us … read more

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25. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

Similar categories in Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice book and Aneurin Bevan's In Place of Fear

  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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26. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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27. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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28. The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

By: Michael Wood

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its si… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire by Pankaj Mishra

29. Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire

By: Pankaj Mishra

3.87

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the Wes… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Homo oeconomicus, der alle anderen menschlichen Werte und Interessen durch Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnungen zu ersetzen versucht, wütet auf dem gesamten Erdball: in den persönlichen Beziehungen ebenso wie am…"

-Pankaj Mishra, Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire

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30. In Place of Fear

By: Aneurin Bevan

4.40

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

Aneurin Bevan, socialist, democrat, individualist, was the most fascinating of politicians; In Plac… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • medicine
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets"

-Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear

"The collective principle asserts that ... no society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."

-Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear

"We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land"

-Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear

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31. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

3.79

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A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East

James Barr

3.33

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Robert Tressell

4.20

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4.37

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Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

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4.41

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