5 best-selling history books like The French Army and the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh

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The French Army and the First World War

By: Elizabeth Greenhalgh

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A comprehensive new account of the French Army's critical contribution to the Great War. Elizabeth …

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1. Absurdistan

By: Gary Shteyngart

3.32

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Open Absurdistan and meet outsize Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, lover o… read more

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"We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense."

-Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

"All over America, the membrane between adulthood and childhood had been eroding, the fantastic and and the personal melding into one, adult worries receding into a pink childhood haze."

-Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

"I crammed a handful of Ativan into his mouth and flooded that orifice with forty ounces of Coca-Cola from the cup holder. 'This is going to take effect immediately,' I lied. 'Breathe, Mr. Sakha, brea…"

-Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

"These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern Calif…"

-Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

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2. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

By: David Fromkin

4.21

Format: 635 pages, Paperback

The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more

Similar categories in David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East book and Elizabeth Greenhalgh's The French Army and the First World War

  • world war i
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

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3. Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18

By: Anthony Clayton

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contributi… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Clayton's Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18 book and Elizabeth Greenhalgh's The French Army and the First World War

  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • france

4. All Quiet on the Western Front

By: Erich Maria Remarque , A.W. Wheen

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World W… read more

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5. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

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6. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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7. The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

By: Nick Lloyd

4.30

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysi… read more

Similar categories in Nick Lloyd's The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 book and Elizabeth Greenhalgh's The French Army and the First World War

  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • european history
Cover of The French Army and the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh

8. The French Army and the First World War

By: Elizabeth Greenhalgh

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A comprehensive new account of the French Army's critical contribution to the Great War. Elizabeth … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Greenhalgh's The French Army and the First World War book and Elizabeth Greenhalgh's The French Army and the First World War

  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • european history

5 Best nonfiction books like The French Army and the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh

Transform Your Habits

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18

Anthony Clayton

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Antony Beevor

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

Nick Lloyd

4.30

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21 best-selling history books like The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd

Transform Your Habits

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Scott Anderson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 (General Military)

None , Dennis E. Showalter

3.82

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