23 best-selling nonfiction books like Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby

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Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.48

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944 The year 1944 was the turning point of World …

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1. Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

By: Mick Herron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missin… read more

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"He had never really lost his youth; he just kept it in a small room off the landing."

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

"So she was waiting for the lecture; prolonged silence always led to the lecture. It was the last thing Sarah needed, and a list of the first things would have filled a book: a hug, a bath, an ear, so…"

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

"On discovering a fire, the instructions ran, shout Fire and try to put it out. It was useful, heart-of the matter advice, and could be extended almost indefinitely in any direction. On discovering yo…"

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

Cover of A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1) by Don Winslow

2. A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on … read more

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3. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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4. The Korean War

By: Max Hastings

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history

5. Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

By: Dan Jones

4.00

Format: 268 pages,

Re-evaluation of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Dan Jones brings to life the squalor, drama and comp… read more

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6. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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7. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
Cover of Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Peter Sarris

8. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

By: Peter Sarris

4.29

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian     Justinian is a radical reassessme… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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10. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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11. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • 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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14. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

By: Richard Fidler

4.11

Format: 448 pages, ebook

A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
  • military history
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17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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18. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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19. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

By: Rowland White

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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20. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

By: Paul Ham

4.45

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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22. How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind

By: James O'Brien

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

There’s no point having a mind if you never change it In his bestselling How To Be Right , James pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of 1945: Victory in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams

23. 1945: Victory in the West

By: Peter Caddick-Adams

4.55

Format: 651 pages, Kindle Edition

'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to … read more

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  • history
Cover of Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby

24. Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.48

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944 The year 1944 was the turning point of World … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It by Simon Kuper

25. Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

By: Simon Kuper

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the r… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

26. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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27. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

Cover of Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar by Max Hastings

28. Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar

By: Max Hastings

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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29. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

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30. Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

By: Patrick Bishop

4.20

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrat… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more

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  • history
  • military history

22 must-read history books like Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby

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Christopher Clark

3.79

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Max Hastings

3.75

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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Peter Sarris

4.29

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Pip Williams

4.07

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Anna Funder

4.13

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