Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805 (The Napoleonic Wars Book 1)
By: Alan Schom
3.98
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
'A thoroughly researched and splendidly written book.' The LA Times Book ReviewThe Battle of Trafal…
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1. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
2. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
By: Spike Milligan
4.03
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, lege… read more
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"They're all the rage, Cab Calloway wears one."-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, “Does any…"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"...Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Robert…"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
3. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
4. Rasputin: The Untold Story
By: Joseph T. Fuhrmann
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Based on new sources--the definitive biography of Rasputin, with revelations about his life, death,… read more
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- history
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5. The First And The Last
By: Adolf Galland
2.74
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaf… read more
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- history
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6. Waterloo (Sharpe, #20)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
June 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield.… read more
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- military fiction
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7. The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders
By: Desmond Seward
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)
By: S.J. Parris
3.55
Format: 288 pages,
Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more
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9. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
By: Erik Larson
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more
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10. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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11. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
12. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
13. Warrior and Protector (The Saxon Warrior, #1)
By: Peter Gibbons
4.36
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
989 AD. Alfred the Great’s dream of a united England has been forged by his daughter Aethelfaed … read more
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- war
14. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
15. Edge of Collapse (Edge of Collapse, #1)
By: Kyla Stone
4.17
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
In the dead of winter, an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid. No electricity. No cars or phon… read more
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16. Silk Road
By: Colin Falconer
4.27
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Silk Road weaves a spellbinding tale of courage, danger and human frailty onto the vast tapestry of… read more
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- france
"They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white p…"-Colin Falconer, Silk Road
"His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the co…"-Colin Falconer, Silk Road
17. Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)
By: Charles Whiting
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
“a provocative and stimulating addition to the study of World War II.” HistoryNetPerfect for reader… read more
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18. Duel of Eagles: The Classic Pilot's Account of the Battle of Britain (Peter Townsend's Air War Collection Book 1)
By: Peter Townsend
4.55
Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition
'REMARKABLE' Sunday Times -- 'A FINE BOOK' Len Deighton 'The greatest book on the Battle of Britai… read more
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19. Stigmata
By: Colin Falconer
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stigmata is an epic tale of heresy, courage, loyalty and loss set against the tumultuous crusades o… read more
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- france
"God chose Fabricia Bérenger during a lightning storm. With one thunderous touch of his finger, he sent her reeling."-Colin Falconer, Stigmata
20. Fever Coast
By: Colin Falconer
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping historical thriller of betrayal, retribution and the indomitable will to survive set aga… read more
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21. Ends of the Earth: A historical adventure thriller of the Roman Empire based on real events (Epic Adventure)
By: Colin Falconer
4.50
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Silk Road comes a brand-new, sweeping action epic about the lost leg… read more
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22. An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945
By: Stanley Christopherson
4.47
Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition
‘An astonishing record...There is no other wartime diary that can match the scope of these diaries’… read more
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23. One Soldier: Vietnam In 1968
By: John Shook
4.00
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
Who, or what, was the real enemy in Vietnam? The ever-elusive, jungle-wise Viet Cong and their NVA … read more
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24. Wing Leader: The Incredible Story of the Top-Scoring RAF Fighter Ace of WWII
By: J.E. Johnson
4.48
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
Johnnie Johnson joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1939 as a week-end flier, and finis… read more
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25. The White Company (Sir John Hawkwood Book 3)
By: Griff Hosker
4.42
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Poitiers was in the past but it changed the life of Sir John Hawkwood for he gained his spurs and t… read more
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26. 'Young Man, You'll Never Die': A World War II Fighter Pilot In North Africa, Burma & Malaya
By: Merton Naydler
4.15
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
A British Royal Air Force pilot recounts fighting over African deserts and Asian jungles during Wor… read more
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27. Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805 (The Napoleonic Wars Book 1)
By: Alan Schom
3.98
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
'A thoroughly researched and splendidly written book.' The LA Times Book ReviewThe Battle of Trafal… read more
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- british literature
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- war
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- france
- nonfiction
28. JG26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe
By: Donald Caldwell
4.07
Format: 561 pages, Kindle Edition
“This unique, impressive study presents a history in microcosm of the entire Luftwaffe Fighter Corp… read more
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