16 Best history books like The African Wars: Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns by Chris Peers

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The African Wars: Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns

By: Chris Peers

3.87

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

In The African Wars, Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought …

If you liked the history plot in The African Wars: Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns by Chris Peers , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4) by Ian Fleming

1. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

By: Ian Fleming

3.64

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more

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"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt ve­ļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

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2. Vikings: A Concise History of the Vikings

By: Henry Freeman

3.45

Format: 304 pages,

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  • history
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3. The First World War

By: John Keegan

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more

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  • history

4. Imperium

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska

3.73

Format: None pages,

Imperiumis the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single id… read more

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5. Closing the Ring (The Second World War, #5)

By: Winston S. Churchill

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive… read more

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6. Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

By: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortu… read more

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7. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

By: Simon Winchester

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more

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  • history
Cover of The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream by Charles     Spencer

8. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • history
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9. The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more

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10. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

By: Laurence Bergreen

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus brings ali… read more

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  • history
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11. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

By: Stephen R. Bown

4.14

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay C… read more

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  • history
Cover of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever by Jared Knott

12. Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

By: Jared Knott

4.01

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

How often does it happen that a single tiny mistake causes an entire civilization to collapse? More… read more

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  • history
Cover of A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo by Walter Lord

13. A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo

By: Walter Lord

4.04

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garris… read more

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  • 19th century
  • history
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14. Trafalgar

By: Nicholas Best

4.51

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

Two hundred years ago Napoleon Bonaparte planned to lead his Grande Armée to Britain, the only coun… read more

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  • history
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15. Five Days That Shocked the World : Eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II

By: Nicholas Best

4.43

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A gripping account of the last days of World War II… It reads like a thriller, informs like a scho… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean (U.S. Military History) by Captivating History

16. The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean (U.S. Military History)

By: Captivating History

4.10

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

The United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas.This book is about the Ban… read more

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  • history
Cover of Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World by Andrew D. Lambert

17. Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

By: Andrew D. Lambert

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812—winner of… read more

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  • history
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18. The Habsburg Empire: A Captivating Guide to the House of Austria and the Impact the Habsburgs Had on the Holy Roman Empire (Exploring Europe’s Past)

By: Captivating History

4.14

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the captivating history of Europe’s second-oldest dynasty—the Habsburgs! Free History BONU… read more

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  • history
Cover of Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by Charles Harding Firth

19. Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England

By: Charles Harding Firth

3.93

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Sir Charles Firth’s biography of Oliver Cromwell portrays a man who was ‘both soldier and statesman… read more

Similar categories in Charles Harding Firth's Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England book and Chris Peers's The African Wars: Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns

  • history
Cover of The African Wars: Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns by Chris Peers

20. The African Wars: Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns

By: Chris Peers

3.87

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

In The African Wars, Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought … read more

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  • 19th century
  • africa
  • history
Cover of Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot by Martin W. Sandler

21. Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot

By: Martin W. Sandler

3.84

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

“A splendid book, full of fascinating, well-told tales . . . a diverse and bafflingly overlooked co… read more

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  • history

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4.27

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4.41

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