The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War
By: Vernon Bogdanor
4.33
Format: 880 pages, Hardcover
The turbulent years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain’s political landscape for ever. They saw a tran…
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1. The Thirty Years War
By: Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood
4.18
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as … read more
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"The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid."-Anthony Grafton, The Thirty Years War
2. The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
By: Jonathan Rose
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricabl… read more
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3. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
4. Ring Of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
By: None
5.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian presents a groundbreaking new history of World War I from the perspectiv… read more
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5. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more
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6. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
7. Dreadnought
By: Robert K. Massie
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more
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8. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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9. The Future of War: A History
By: Lawrence Freedman
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought… read more
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10. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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11. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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12. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
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"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
13. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
14. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
By: Anthony Seldon
4.22
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more
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15. Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Phoenix Press)
By: Andrew Roberts
4.44
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
At six years of age, Robert Cecil, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was sent to a brutal boarding sch… read more
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16. The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
By: Nick Lloyd
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military his… read more
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17. New Rome: The Empire in the East
By: Paul Stephenson
3.53
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive new history of the Eastern Roman Empire based on the science of the human past. … read more
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18. The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
By: David Edgerton
4.04
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old , a bold reassessment o… read more
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19. The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War
By: Vernon Bogdanor
4.33
Format: 880 pages, Hardcover
The turbulent years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain’s political landscape for ever. They saw a tran… read more
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20. Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey
By: T.G. Otte
4.21
Format: 858 pages, Hardcover
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The wo… read more
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21. 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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