The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
By: Philip D. Zelikow
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new history that explores the tantalizing and almost-realized possibility that the Fir…
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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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"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
2. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
3. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more
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"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Society's revenge matched its fright."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
4. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more
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5. The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914
By: Winston S. Churchill
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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- world war i
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6. 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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Similar categories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative book and Philip D. Zelikow's The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
- american history
- history
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8. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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9. The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
By: Joseph Hickman
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with sev… read more
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10. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
By: Frank Dikötter
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of… read more
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11. 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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12. An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs, #5)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Hardcover
In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a s… read more
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13. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more
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14. Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs, #6)
By: Jacqueline Winspear , Orlagh Cassidy
2.33
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the thrilling new novel by the New York Timesbestselling author of An Incomplete Revenge, Maisie… read more
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15. 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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- war
- military history
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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
16. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
17. 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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18. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
By: Kati Marton
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more
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"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
19. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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- european history
20. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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21. The Age of AI and Our Human Future
By: Henry Kissinger
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more
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22. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.22
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament… read more
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23. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
By: Andrew Roberts
4.25
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more
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24. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
25. Churchill: Walking with Destiny
By: Andrew Roberts
4.36
Format: 1105 pages, Hardcover
A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from pr… read more
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26. In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
By: Nancy Goldstone
4.16
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in histo… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
27. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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- european history
28. A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination
By: Mary Haverstick
3.92
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film’s subject opened a new win… read more
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29. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- american history
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30. The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917
By: Philip D. Zelikow
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new history that explores the tantalizing and almost-realized possibility that the Fir… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
