18 Top history books like Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti

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Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia

By: Mark Galeotti

4.04

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid’Simon Sebag Montefi…

If you liked the history plot in Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

1. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords by Nicola Tallant

2. Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords

By: Nicola Tallant

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

COCAINE COWBOYS tells the story of Ireland’s love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Putin: His Life and Times by Philip Short

3. Putin: His Life and Times

By: Philip Short

4.32

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

4. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

5. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith

6. Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

By: Martin Sixsmith

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Sov… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. A War Made in Russia

By: Sergei Medvedev

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merel… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Once again, the Empire of Russia has defeated the nation. It is important to recognize it now, when Russia is suffering a moral, military and, broadly speaking, civilizational defeat in Ukraine. The …"

-Sergei Medvedev, A War Made in Russia

"This is a world war, unleashed by Russia to overturn the modern liberal world order. It has many open and hidden global supporters, and there are neutral countries that are watching carefully to see …"

-Sergei Medvedev, A War Made in Russia

Cover of Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti

8. Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia

By: Mark Galeotti

4.04

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid’Simon Sebag Montefi… read more

Similar categories in Mark Galeotti's Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia book and Mark Galeotti's Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia

  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

9. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv by Illia Ponomarenko

10. I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

By: Illia Ponomarenko

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A raw, irreverent account of a young Ukrainian reporter on-the-ground as his country heroically def… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So many millions of men and women, from high-ranking officials to regular folks like us, making the moral choice of not giving in to the dark—but doing what was right, no matter what."

-Illia Ponomarenko, I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

11. 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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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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.

Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

12. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

13. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

14. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

15. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

Similar categories in Richard J. Evans's Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich book and Mark Galeotti's Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister by Anthony Seldon

16. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister

By: Anthony Seldon

4.36

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

17. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone by Serhii Plokhy

18. Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A harrowing account of Russia’s occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants, an… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair

19. On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century

By: Tony Blair

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country’s governance and leadership determines wheth… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger

20. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

By: Kate Conger

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of War by Bob Woodward

21. 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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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

"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

"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

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