16 Top history books like The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape by Alexander Mikaberidze

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The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

4.19

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by …

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1. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

By: Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the ci… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military history
  • france
  • nonfiction
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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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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • 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. The Twelve Caesars

By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

By: Dominic Lieven

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in War and Peace Russia's expul… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
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5. Talavera: Wellington's First Victory in Spain

By: Andrew W. Field

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Talavera The Battle of Talavera was one of the key confrontations of the Peninsular War. In a blood… read more

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  • history
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6. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command (Volume I: Manassas to Malvern Hill)

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

4.30

Format: None pages,

Douglas Southall Freeman. Lee's Lieutenants. 3 Volume Set. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history

7. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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8. The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)

By: Anne Perry

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident tha… read more

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9. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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10. The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era: The End of a Battleship Era?

By: Martin Middlebrook , Patrick Mahoney

4.15

Format: None pages,

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11. The Iron Marshal: A Biography of Louis N. Davout

By: John G. Gallaher

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This first biography in English of Davout, the most successful of Napoleon's commanders, made Marsh… read more

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12. The Campaigns of Napoleon

By: David G. Chandler

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex -- an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions,… read more

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13. 1415: Henry V's Year Of Glory

By: Ian Mortimer

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionized in his own day for his victory at Agincourt… read more

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14. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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15. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

By: Stephen W. Sears

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This is a history of the largest and bloodiest campaign of the American Civil War - one in which a … read more

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16. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

17. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more

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18. The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

By: David A. Bell

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bel… read more

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19. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

By: Alexander Rose

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now a TV series on AMC Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose re… read more

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20. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh

21. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Cover of Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 by Max Hastings

22. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

By: Max Hastings

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Napoleon: The Man behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski

23. Napoleon: The Man behind the Myth

By: Adam Zamoyski

4.27

Format: 728 pages, Hardcover

A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • history
Cover of I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig

24. I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign

By: D. Scott Hartwig

4.79

Format: 984 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two) by Peter Gretton

25. Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Peter Gretton

4.21

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

An engrossing account by the Royal Navy commander who led the escort of convoy HX231 during the Bat… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. War Beneath the Sea: Submarine conflict during World War II (Peter Padfield Naval History)

By: Peter Padfield

4.20

Format: 653 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book to cover all the major submarine campaigns during World War II, "War Beneath the Sea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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27. The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba

By: Mark Braude

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Few historical figures are as well-known as Napoleon Bonaparte, and yet the Emperor's ten-month exi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • history
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28. Maximinus Thrax: From Common Soldier to Emperor of Rome

By: Paul N. Pearson

3.78

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length biography of the half-barbarian emperor.Maximinus was a Thracian tribesman “o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

4.19

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military history
  • france
  • nonfiction
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30. Austerlitz: Napoleon and The Eagles of Europe

By: Ian Castle

3.88

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and th… read more

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  • military history
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31. The Jena Campaign: 1806-The Twin Battles of Jena & Auerstadt Between Napoleon's French and the Prussian Army

By: F.N. Maude

2.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A classic analysis of one of Napoleon's great campaigns in Europe Maude's Jena Campaign examines th… read more

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