X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
By: Dermot Turing
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
December, 1932: In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents…
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By: Simon Singh
4.30
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
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"Po první světové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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2. The Good Soldier Švejk
By: Jaroslav Hašek , Josef Lada , Cecil Parrott
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
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By: James Burke
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
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4. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
By: Leo Marks
4.09
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
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4.70
Format: 84 pages, Hardcover
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By: Ellis Peters
4.39
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
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8. Enigma
By: Robert Harris
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
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By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
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10. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By: Ben Macintyre
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
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12. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
By: Robert Coram
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember… read more
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13. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
By: Rich Roll
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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14. The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement
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4.08
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
By: Meb Keflezighi
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more
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16. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
By: Paul Newman
3.89
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more
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17. The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Audiobook
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18. The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
By: George Friedman
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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19. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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20. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
By: Andy Greenberg
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the futu… read more
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21. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
By: Jimmy Soni
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * … read more
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22. The Fighting Tenth: The Tenth Submarine Flotilla and the Siege of Malta (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)
By: John Wingate
4.33
Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition
An epic account of ‘the most concentrated submarine battle in history’.Ideal for fans of Max Hastin… read more
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23. Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
By: Steve Kemper
4.37
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during th… read more
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24. Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1)
By: Jeremy Howard-Williams
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
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25. Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence
By: James Bamford
3.64
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
James Bamford, the bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets , unveils a hidde… read more
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26. Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
By: David A. Price
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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27. Churchill's Shadow Raiders: The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon
By: Damien Lewis
4.40
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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28. Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
By: Catherine Musemeche
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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29. The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944
By: Jonathan F. Vance
4.31
Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. 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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31. X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
By: Dermot Turing
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
December, 1932: In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents… read more
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