The Russian Revolution
By: Richard Pipes , Peter Dimock , Bernhard H. Wagner
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to …
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By: Annie Jacobsen
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Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
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2. The Russian Revolution
By: Richard Pipes , Peter Dimock , Bernhard H. Wagner
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
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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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4. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
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5. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
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A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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6. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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7. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive & the Secret History of the KGB
By: None , Vasili Mitrokhin , Christopher Andrew
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The Sword and the Shieldis based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent time… read more
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8. In the First Circle
By: None , Harry Willets
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
The First Circle of Dante's Hell -- where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to… read more
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9. The Children's Blizzard
By: David Laskin
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Childr… read more
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10. Lord Jim
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more
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11. The Constant Gardener
By: John Le Carré
3.82
Format: 482 pages, Paperback
Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of… read more
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"He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
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"You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days."-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
"I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatter…"-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener
12. The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
By: Kai Bird
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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13. Columbus: The Four Voyages
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4.40
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From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World,a mesmerizing new account of … read more
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14. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.69
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15. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
By: Orlando Figes
3.92
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16. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
By: Buddy Levy
4.29
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In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more
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17. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By: Thomas Asbridge
4.22
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The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more
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"The Lionheart had arrived."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
18. Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
By: Laurence Rees
4.53
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An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the … read more
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19. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
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“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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20. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
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21. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
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3.91
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