Black Ajax
By: George MacDonald Fraser
3.80
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
The author of Flashman presents a rollicking, historically rich novel about a freed slave from New …
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1. The Forgotten Soldier
By: Guy Sajer
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Forgotten Soldier recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the ey… read more
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"The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
2. Thunder Point (Sean Dillon #2)
By: Jack Higgins
4.01
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
1945. The day before Hitler commits suicide, he arranges for Nazi leader Martin Bormann to flee to … read more
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- historical fiction
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3. Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.41
Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Ahh! They're all just pins!"-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar."-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
4. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)
By: T.H. White
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more
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- fiction
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5. Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
By: C.J. Sansom
2.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But … read more
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- historical
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6. The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed su… read more
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7. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
By: Max Hastings
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more
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8. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
9. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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10. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
11. The Far Side of the World
By: Patrick O'Brian
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own hea… read more
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12. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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- audiobook
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
13. Thunderball (James Bond, #9)
By: Ian Fleming
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
"The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey ey… read more
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14. The Second Sleep
By: Robert Harris
3.49
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, C… read more
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- audiobook
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15. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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- audiobook
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
16. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
By: Garth Marenghi
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- british literature
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
17. The Fortune Men
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.80
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust… read more
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18. Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat
By: Garth Marenghi
3.93
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
Garth Marenghi - Frightenerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . … read more
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19. An Onshore Storm (Alan Lewrie #24)
By: Dewey Lambdin
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
For over twenty years, Dewey Lambdin's devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Ro… read more
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20. A Fine Retribution (Alan Lewrie #23)
By: Dewey Lambdin
4.36
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
Dewey Lambdin, the reigning master of maritime fiction, continues the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Ro… read more
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21. Black Ajax
By: George MacDonald Fraser
3.80
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
The author of Flashman presents a rollicking, historically rich novel about a freed slave from New … read more
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