Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947
By: Daniel Todman
4.45
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
This book opens with one of the greatest disasters in British military history - the fall of Singap…
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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
2. To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
By: Ian Kershaw
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kersh… read more
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- politics
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- european history
3. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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4. The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy ha… read more
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5. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- nonfiction
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
6. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
By: Craig Brown
4.26
Format: 642 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinatin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
7. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
8. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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9. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By: Alex Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more
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10. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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11. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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12. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- european history
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
14. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
By: Caroline Elkins
4.26
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more
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15. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
16. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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17. The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
By: Michael Wood
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its si… read more
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18. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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19. Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
By: Peter Heather
4.14
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the 4th century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, an… read more
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20. Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947
By: Daniel Todman
4.45
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
This book opens with one of the greatest disasters in British military history - the fall of Singap… read more
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- world war ii
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