7 must-read germany books like Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson

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Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

By: Ian Ona Johnson

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an …

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1. Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East

By: David Stahel

4.20

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on … read more

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  • russia
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  • germany
  • military history
  • world war ii
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2. Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (Modern War Studies)

By: Robert M. Citino

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretch… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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3. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

By: Thomas Cahill

3.81

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and cul… read more

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  • european history
"Each one of us will die, naked and alone, on some battlefield not of our own choosing."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

"Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

"By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

"Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident—and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

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4. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the know… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy

By: Viktor Suvorov

3.64

Format: 192 pages,

Viktor Suvorov takes us inside the Aquarium, Moscow headquarters of the GRU, the super-secret Russi… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
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6. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

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"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

7. Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising

By: Alexandra Richie

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

The full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimes I… read more

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8. Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

By: None

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point … read more

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9. 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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10. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

By: Ron Chernow

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morganis the most … read more

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11. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

By: James Holland

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more

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12. 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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13. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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14. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia  The Achaemen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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16. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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17. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

By: Andy Borowitz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more

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"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"

-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

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18. Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Mary Beard

4.03

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more

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"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

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19. Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

By: Mark Galeotti

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h… read more

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20. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)

By: Rush Doshi

4.04

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more

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21. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II

By: Sean McMeekin

4.28

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian We remember World War I… read more

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22. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires    At its … read more

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Cover of Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie

23. Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War

By: Tim Bouverie

4.36

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the Bri… read more

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  • military history
  • world war ii
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24. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

By: Roger Moorhouse

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World W… read more

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25. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

By: Dan Stone

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more

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26. The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

By: Colin Jones

4.19

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the h… read more

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27. You Will Own Nothing

By: Carol Roth

3.74

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new fina… read more

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28. House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

By: Justine Firnhaber-Baker

4.30

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealt… read more

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29. Demetrius: Sacker of Cities (Ancient Lives)

By: James Romm

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to su… read more

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30. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

By: Ian Ona Johnson

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an … read more

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  • germany
  • military history
  • world war ii
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  • european history
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31. 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

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23 best-selling history books like Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson

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Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East

David Stahel

4.20

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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (Modern War Studies)

Robert M. Citino

4.36

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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

Thomas Cahill

3.81

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How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Adrian Goldsworthy

4.00

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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

4.15

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

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