8 best-selling nonfiction books like War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham

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War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By: Patrick Marnham

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

‘One of our very best writers on France.’ Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of…

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1. Corpus (Tom Wilde #1)

By: Rory Clements

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1936: Eine Mordserie erschüttert Cambridge. Internationale Kräfte kämpfen um Einfluss. Der nächste … read more

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2. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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3. Eye of the Needle

By: Ken Follett

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthle… read more

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4. The Key to Rebecca

By: Ken Follett

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Ken Follett's The Key to Rebeccatook readers and critics by storm when first published more than fi… read more

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5. The Battle of Britain

By: James Holland

3.95

Format: None pages,

'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer o… read more

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6. The World of Cézanne: 1839-1906

By: Richard W. Murphy

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

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7. The Lighthouse Murders (Dorset Crime #8)

By: Rachel McLean

4.44

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

DCI Lesley Clarke is back in Dorset, and her world has turned upside down.One of the people she's c… read more

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8. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more

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9. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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10. Silverview

By: John Le Carré

3.66

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more

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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."

-John Le Carré, Silverview

"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"

-John Le Carré, Silverview

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11. London Rules (Slough House, #5)

By: Mick Herron

4.34

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more

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"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

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12. Paris Echo

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the e… read more

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13. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

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15. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

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"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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16. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

By: James Holland

4.45

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Fall

By: Louise Jensen

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

She promised she wouldn’t tell. They made sure she couldn’t… At her surprise 40th birthday party… read more

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18. Dawnlands (The Fairmile #3)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.07

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many famili… read more

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19. The Foundling

By: Stacey Halls

3.99

Format: 400 pages, ebook

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more

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"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

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20. The Black Swan of Paris

By: Karen Robards

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944 Celebrated sin… read more

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Cover of Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman

21. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed

By: Jim Popkin

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 24 minutes The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in U… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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24. Echo of the Dead (DCI Lorimer, #19)

By: Alex Gray

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

After a stressful winter, DSI William Lorimer is enjoying some time away from Glasgow. He and his n… read more

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25. Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II

By: James Holland

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy l… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6

By: Helen Fry

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimat… read more

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27. 1945: Victory in the West

By: Peter Caddick-Adams

4.55

Format: 651 pages, Kindle Edition

'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to … read more

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28. War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By: Patrick Marnham

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

‘One of our very best writers on France.’ Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of… read more

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29. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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30. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more

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"...What did you say?"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

Cover of Requiem for a Patriot (Captain Harry Tennant #2) by David J. Oldman

31. Requiem for a Patriot (Captain Harry Tennant #2)

By: David J. Oldman

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

England, 1947. It’s an Arctic January day, one of the coldest winters on record. A man on a desert… read more

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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Ben Macintyre

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

James Holland

4.45

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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

Tracy Borman

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed

Jim Popkin

3.77

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Frederick Forsyth

4.14

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Martin Cruz Smith

3.13

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John Grisham , Robin Waterfield

4.06

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Ken Follett

4.21

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