7 Best nonfiction books like Augustus: The Biography by Jochen Bleicken

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Augustus: The Biography

By: Jochen Bleicken

4.02

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news …

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1. The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Holy Sinner

By: Thomas Mann

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

THE BOOK: An epic arch sinfulness, The Holy Sinner is one of Thomas Mann's great works. From the in… read more

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  • classics

3. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

By: Chris Wickham

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

An ambitious and enlightening look at why the so-called Dark Ages were anything but that. Prizewinn… read more

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4. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)

By: Richard J. Evans

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more

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5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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6. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)

By: Richard J. Evans

4.83

Format: 266 pages,

The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more

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7. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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  • classics
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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8. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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9. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

By: Colin Jones

4.19

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the h… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Gracchi

By: David Stockton

3.70

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic

By: Fred K. Drogula

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Marcus Porcius Cato ("the Younger") is most famous for being Julius Caesar's nemesis. His sustained… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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14. Augustus: The Biography

By: Jochen Bleicken

4.02

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news … read more

Similar categories in Jochen Bleicken's Augustus: The Biography book and Jochen Bleicken's Augustus: The Biography

  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • history

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4.16

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Katja Hoyer

4.17

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4.09

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4.15

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Christopher Clark

4.18

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