19 best-selling history books like The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus by Arthur Chichester

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The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus

By: Arthur Chichester

4.18

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Burning Edge the writer Arthur Chichester takes the reader on a journey to the furthest edge…

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1. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

By: Peter Pomerantsev

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a r… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
"We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and people are becoming like us. It's not that way. Bec…"

-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

"So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all the time. There's like several "you"s.' Seen from this pers…"

-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

"That unique Moscow mix of tackiness and menace. One time I see a poster advertising a new property development that captures the tone nicely. Got up in the style of Nazi propaganda, it shows two Germ…"

-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

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2. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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3. Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

By: David Aaronovitch

3.55

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere - from Pearl Harbour to 9/11, f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Ukraine Diaries

By: Andrey Kurkov , Sam Taylor

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

Kurkov's diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November 2013, and describe… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
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5. In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine

By: Tim Judah

4.11

Format: None pages,

From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch fro… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
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6. Mr. Nice

By: Howard Marks

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

By: David Simon

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. The NIV Gospel of John: With Devotional Notes

By: Anonymous

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

'John's Gospel sheds a unique light not only on the ministry of Jesus Christ, but also on the natur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
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10. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

By: Sarah Bakewell

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

12. The Crow

By: James O'Barr

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Eric has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who kil… read more

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13. My Life And Work

By: Henry Ford

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

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14. Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

By: Rusty Young , Thomas McFadden

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted Engli… read more

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15. A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travel… read more

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16. A Hero of Our Time

By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more

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17. Trump: The Art of the Deal

By: Donald J. Trump , Tony Schwartz

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Trump reveals the business secrets that have made him America's foremost deal maker! "I like thinki… read more

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18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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19. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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20. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

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  • history
  • russia
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

By: Tom Vitale

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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23. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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24. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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25. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. 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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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
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27. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

By: Simon Baron-Cohen

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home

By: Matthew Kepnes

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adven… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. Kde všade som (ne)zomrel

By: Peter Popluhár

4.44

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

All the Places I Didn’t Die is a series of autobiographical stories filled with tragic plots writte… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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31. The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus

By: Arthur Chichester

4.18

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Burning Edge the writer Arthur Chichester takes the reader on a journey to the furthest edge… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
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  • nonfiction

23 Best nonfiction books like The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus by Arthur Chichester

Transform Your Habits

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Peter Pomerantsev

3.97

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

David Aaronovitch

3.55

Transform Your Habits

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0.00

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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

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David McCullough

4.09

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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

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