10 best-selling history books like Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts by Daniel Siemens

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Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

By: Daniel Siemens

3.79

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialis…

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1. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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2. Napoleon: A Life

By: Andrew Roberts

4.23

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

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3. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

5. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century… read more

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6. Metro 2035 (Metro #3)

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes… read more

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7. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Harriet A. Washington

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more

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8. The Gangs of New York

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Herbert Asbury

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a n… read more

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9. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more

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10. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)

By: Richard J. Evans

4.83

Format: 266 pages,

The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more

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11. My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress

By: Rachel DeLoache Williams

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delv… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. The Infinite and the Divine (Warhammer 40,000)

By: Robert Rath

4.46

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

A Necrons novel Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner are opposites. Each is obsessed with … read more

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"The sound of mechanized brutality that could only come from one species."

-Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine (Warhammer 40,000)

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15. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

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16. We Are Not Free

By: Traci Chee

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
"...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done"

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

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17. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Mary Beard

18. Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

By: Mary Beard

3.68

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beard's Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) book and Daniel Siemens's Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

By: Mark Kurlansky

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cult… read more

Similar categories in Mark Kurlansky's Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas book and Daniel Siemens's Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny part…"

-Mark Kurlansky, Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

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20. How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 40 Edible Wild Plants

By: Ellen Zachos

4.36

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

This on-the-go guide is perfect for new foragers eager to learn about the edible plants they're mos… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Zachos's How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 40 Edible Wild Plants book and Daniel Siemens's Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

  • nonfiction
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21. Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

By: Daniel Siemens

3.79

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialis… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Siemens's Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts book and Daniel Siemens's Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 20th century

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4.38

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4.67

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4.24

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4.09

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