25 must-read history books like Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution by William Doyle

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Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution

By: William Doyle

3.48

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A cogent, comprehensive, and sweeping account of Napoleon’s dismantling of the French Revolution, g…

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1. Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon

By: None , Suzanne M. Desan

4.26

Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio

The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after N… read more

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  • history
  • france
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2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

By: Richard Rhodes

4.39

Format: 886 pages, Paperback

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more

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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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3. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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4. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

By: Brian M. Fagan

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more

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  • history

5. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

By: Stephen Kotkin

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more

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6. The Soviet Century

By: Moshe Lewin

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant--perhaps today more so than e… read more

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7. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution

By: Isser Woloch , R.R. Palmer

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French histo… read more

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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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9. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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10. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • history
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11. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • history
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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12. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • history
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13. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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14. Surviving to Drive

By: Guenther Steiner

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more

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  • history
"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"

-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive

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15. 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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  • history
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16. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • history
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17. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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  • history
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18. Sharpe's Assassin (Sharpe, #21)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe.SHA… read more

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  • france
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19. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III

By: Andrew Roberts

4.25

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more

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  • history
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20. Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History

By: Tony Perrottet

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the fi… read more

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Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

21. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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Cover of The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis

22. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more

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  • history
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23. The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

By: Jamie Mackay

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands. Sicily has always acted as a gat… read more

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24. The Practicing Stoic

By: Ward Farnsworth

4.35

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings … read more

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"If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7"

-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

"The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us."

-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

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25. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

By: Simon Garfield

3.65

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars a… read more

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  • history
Cover of Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston

26. Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

By: Keith Houston

3.87

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped bui… read more

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  • history
Cover of Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945 by Charles Stephenson

27. Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945

By: Charles Stephenson

3.78

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Did Japan surrender in 1945 because of the death and devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped… read more

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28. Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution

By: William Doyle

3.48

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A cogent, comprehensive, and sweeping account of Napoleon’s dismantling of the French Revolution, g… read more

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  • history
  • france
Cover of American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC by Shahan Mufti

29. American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC

By: Shahan Mufti

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One of Publishers Weekly’ s Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' C… read more

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Cover of Napoleon and the Art of Leadership: How a Flawed Genius Changed the History of Europe and the World by William Nester

30. Napoleon and the Art of Leadership: How a Flawed Genius Changed the History of Europe and the World

By: William Nester

3.54

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

No one in history has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened rule… read more

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