Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West
By: Jason Webster
4.13
Format: 432 pages, hardcover
A controversial, urgent and new history of Spain from the best-selling interpreter of the country, …
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1. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
By: Louis de Bernières
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impo… read more
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2. The Gallows Pole
By: Benjamin Myers
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. It's a windswept, brutal tale … read more
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3. The American Civil War: A Military History
By: John Keegan
3.67
Format: None pages,
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the m… read more
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4. Imperial Spain, 1469-1716
By: None
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most ma… read more
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- european history
- spain
5. City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
6. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
By: Eugene Rogan
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more
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7. The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The second installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic… read more
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8. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye--the illuminating story of a… read more
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9. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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10. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
11. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
12. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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13. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.58
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published… read more
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"Schoolkinderen worden snel groot (sneller dan wij volgens de krantenberichten), en ze moeten onze wereld gaan begrijpen. Lezen is een manier om de volgende generatie te helpen om te leren en te denke…"-Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
14. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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- european history
15. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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- nonfiction
16. The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
By: Richard J. Evans
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
17. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
18. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
By: Tim Marshall
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more
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19. We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
By: Kai Strittmatter
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most respected investigative reporters reveals how George Orwell’s chilling visi… read more
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"Harmony is when ordinary people don't make a fuss."-Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
"Dla nas, Europejczyków, Chiny były wciąż jeszcze czystą kartą, dziewiczym obszarem dla naszych własnych wyobrażeń. Raz były niebem, raz piekłem, innym razem znów „żółtym niebezpieczeństwem"-Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
20. Korea: A New History of South and North
By: Victor Cha
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day … read more
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21. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more
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"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
22. Nothing But The Truth
By: The Secret Barrister
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more
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23. Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
By: Gaston Dorren
3.80
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it―only one in five peop… read more
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24. Budapest: Between East and West
By: Victor Sebestyen
4.29
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarot… read more
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25. Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
By: Anthony Sattin
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.… read more
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26. Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
By: Michael Booth
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China,… read more
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27. The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
By: Nicholas Morton
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages … read more
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28. Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
By: Sinclair McKay
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from… read more
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29. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
By: Robert Service
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ru… read more
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30. Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West
By: Jason Webster
4.13
Format: 432 pages, hardcover
A controversial, urgent and new history of Spain from the best-selling interpreter of the country, … read more
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31. Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman
By: Will Grant
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of th… read more
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