11 Best history books like De veertigjarige oorlog, 1672-1712 by Olaf van Nimwegen

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De veertigjarige oorlog, 1672-1712

By: Olaf van Nimwegen

4.00

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

Geschiedenis van de strijd van de Nederlandse Republiek tegen de territoriale ambities van de Frans…

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1. Dante (Warhammer 40,000)

By: Guy Haley

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The untold origin story of Chapter Master Dante of the Blood Angels, one of the Imperium's greatest… read more

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2. The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

4.13

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They … read more

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"Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)

"ا من أحد يطرح اسئلة عن الشيء الذي يفضل تجاهله."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)

"Everything can be forgiven, save telling the truth"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)

"One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)

Cover of El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3. El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

4.53

Format: 928 pages, Hardcover

"El laberinto de los espíritus", es el desenlace de la saga de "El cementerio de los libros olvidad… read more

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"يقاس حجم السرّ بقيمة الشخص الذي نخفيه عنه"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)

"Le certezze confortano, ma si impara solo dubitando."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)

"Las certezas reconfortan, pero sólo se aprende dudando."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)

"Una puerta no tiene principio ni fin, tan solo puertas de entrada."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)

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4. The Spinoza Problem

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.25

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic rema… read more

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"Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می …"

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

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5. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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6. The Radetzky March

By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more

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7. Peter the Great: His Life and World

By: Robert K. Massie

4.14

Format: 909 pages, Paperback

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more

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  • history
Cover of Lopen met Van Lennep: De zomer van 1823: Dagboek van zijn voetreis door Nederland by Geert Mak, Marita Mathijsen, None

8. Lopen met Van Lennep: De zomer van 1823: Dagboek van zijn voetreis door Nederland

By: Geert Mak , Marita Mathijsen , None

4.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Zomer 1823. Twee Leidse studenten maken een soort inspectietocht door Nederland: de stijfdeftige Di… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

9. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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10. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

11. Rampjaar 1672: hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte

By: Luc Panhuysen

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Het jaar 1672 staat in de Nederlandse geschiedenis gegrift als het Rampjaar. In dat jaar werd de Re… read more

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12. Napoleon, De schaduw van de revolutie

By: Bart Van Loo

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Bart Van Loo verovert met Napoleon de Lage Landen. Napoleon fascineert. Hij is een van de meest inv… read more

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13. The First Crusade: The Call from the East

By: Peter Frankopan

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated … read more

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14. The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Windcomes a riveting new masterpi… read more

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15. Cerchi infiniti. Viaggi in Giappone

By: Cees Nooteboom , Laura Pignatti

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Certi viaggi hanno l'obiettivo segreto di <>, <>: <>, scrive Cees Nooteboom, infaticabile esplorato… read more

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16. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Cover of Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7) by Andrzej Sapkowski

17. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

4.27

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, h… read more

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"Padlina będzie dla was, czarodziejów, nikt wam jej nie zabierze. Chyba że inne sępy."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

"It’s like they said! Geralt! It’s like they said! Am I your destiny? Say it! Am I your destiny?' ‘You’re more than that, Ciri. Much more."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

"Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?’ ‘Yes. It’s hard to call an accident destiny.’ ‘But you witchers do not stop searching?’ ‘No, we don’t. But it’s senseless. Nothing has any point."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

"It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it's the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

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18. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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19. Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration… read more

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"I use the word “God"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"This “Hawking temperature"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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20. 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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  • history
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21. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

By: Bart Van Loo

4.31

Format: 607 pages, Hardcover

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more

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  • history
Cover of Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun by Chris  Broad

22. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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23. Nirwana

By: Tommy Wieringa

4.07

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

De geschiedenis van een grootvader bepaalt het heden van een samen vertellen ze het verhaal van ee… read more

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24. The Devastation of Baal (Space Marine Conquests #1)

By: Guy Haley

4.12

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Blood Angels Chapter and their successors mount a desperate defence of their home world of Baal… read more

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"Let the damned march with the damned!"

-Guy Haley, The Devastation of Baal (Space Marine Conquests #1)

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25. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump

3.82

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more

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  • history
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26. Dit is Europa

By: Hendrik Vos

4.29

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

De geschiedenis van een unie Na eeuwenlange verdeeldheid sloegen zes landen in Europa de handen … read more

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  • history
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27. Thorbecke wil het

By: Remieg Aerts

4.56

Format: 888 pages, Hardcover

Johan Rudolf Thorbecke is de geschiedenis in gegaan als auteur van de grondwet van 1848 en als de a… read more

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  • history
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28. De veertigjarige oorlog, 1672-1712

By: Olaf van Nimwegen

4.00

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

Geschiedenis van de strijd van de Nederlandse Republiek tegen de territoriale ambities van de Frans… read more

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  • history
Cover of De hel van 1812 by Bart Funnekotter

29. De hel van 1812

By: Bart Funnekotter

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

De grootste ramp uit de Nederlandse militaire geschiedenis Verzengende hitte, snijdende kou, hon… read more

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Cover of Friso: Het tragische leven van Prins Johan Willem Friso 1687-1711 by Ronald de Graaf

30. Friso: Het tragische leven van Prins Johan Willem Friso 1687-1711

By: Ronald de Graaf

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

De biografie van deze stadhouder en prins van oranje laat zich lezen als een klassiek drama. Prins … read more

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31. De dageraad van Holland: De geschiedenis van het graafschap 1100-1300

By: Henk 't Jong

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Henk ’t Jong neemt ons in ‘De dageraad van Holland’ mee naar de hoogtijdagen van het ridderschap. I… read more

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  • history

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