13 must-read history books like Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 by Daniel J. Hughes

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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918

By: Daniel J. Hughes

4.17

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its f…

If you liked the history plot in Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 by Daniel J. Hughes , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

By: Ian Fleming

3.63

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

How is this for an evocative passage from the second Bond novel? "Her hair was black and fell to… read more

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  • audiobook
"Don't lose faith in your stars."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

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2. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

By: Steven H. Strogatz

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more

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  • history
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3. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • germany
  • history
  • european history
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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4. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

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  • history

5. Eine Jugend in Deutschland

By: Ernst Toller

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Als begeisterter Freiwilliger zog er in den ersten Weltkrieg, und als humanitarer Pazifist kehrte e… read more

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6. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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7. Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915

By: Prit Buttar

3.99

Format: None pages,

While millions of men died in France and Belgium in 1915, battles equally as large and bloody were … read more

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8. The First Crusade: The Call from the East

By: Peter Frankopan

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated … read more

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9. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

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  • audiobook
"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

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10. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

By: Ian Fleming

3.80

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more

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  • audiobook
"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

11. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more

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12. Hitler

By: Ian Kershaw

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitleris a new… read more

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13. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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14. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

By: Roger Crowley

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration i… read more

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15. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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  • audiobook
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

16. Goodbye to All That

By: Robert Graves

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society foll… read more

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17. War: How Conflict Shaped Us

By: Margaret MacMillan

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Is peace an aberration? The bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an… read more

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  • history
  • military history
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18. Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.57

Format: 534 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its i… read more

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  • audiobook
"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “So not unnatural at all,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “Your dad’s kind of an asshole,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Nineteen: Elvi We just lost two gates, Admiral. And one of them had an entire world filled with people behind it."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That’d be enough."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

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19. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • germany
  • history
  • european history
  • audiobook
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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20. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • history
  • military history
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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21. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • germany
  • european history
  • audiobook
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22. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

By: Mike Duncan

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more

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  • history
  • european history
  • audiobook
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23. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • history
  • audiobook
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24. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more

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  • history
  • military history
  • audiobook
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

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25. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)

By: Kyle Harper

4.21

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental rete… read more

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  • history
  • audiobook
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26. The Fox

By: Frederick Forsyth

3.82

Format: None pages, ebook

Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control. But what if the most dangerous w… read more

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  • audiobook
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27. The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

By: David Edmonds

4.07

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordin… read more

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  • history
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28. Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918

By: Daniel J. Hughes

4.17

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its f… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • germany
  • military history
  • european history
  • audiobook
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29. O mercado de renda fixa no Brasil; conceitos, precificação e risco (Portuguese Edition)

By: José Monteiro Varanda Neto

3.22

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Diante da necessidade de uma bibliografia consistente que tratasse do tema de Renda Fixa nacional d… read more

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14 must-read audiobook books like Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 by Daniel J. Hughes

Transform Your Habits

Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

Ian Fleming

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

Ian Fleming

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

Ian Fleming

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

John Buchan

3.60

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9 Best audiobook books like Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer

Transform Your Habits

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Katja Hoyer

4.17

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