15 best-selling history books like GCHQ: Centenary Edition by Richard Aldrich

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GCHQ: Centenary Edition

By: Richard Aldrich

4.40

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION ‘An important book’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times ‘An intrigui…

If you liked the history plot in GCHQ: Centenary Edition by Richard Aldrich , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk

1. Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An accl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.71

Format: 192 pages,

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Hornblower and the Hotspur

By: C.S. Forester

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army j… read more

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4. On Horseback Through Asia Minor

By: Peter Hopkirk , Frederick Burnaby

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinop… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

5. 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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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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7. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

By: Denise Kiernan

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial r… read more

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8. White Eagles Over Serbia

By: Lawrence Durrell

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

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9. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

By: William H. McRaven

4.00

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Listening Length: 1 hour and 53 minutes If you want to change the world, start off by making you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

10. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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11. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume… read more

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12. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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13. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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14. 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
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

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17. Why the F*ck Can't I Change?

By: Gabija Toleikyte

3.91

Format: 350 pages, ebook

Most of us want to change something about ourselves. It might be our response to stress, our weight… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

18. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By: John Carreyrou

4.41

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It just feels like you want us to give you the formula for Coke in order to convince you that it doesn’t contain arsenic,"

-John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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19. The Roads Chosen

By: Ben Carlyle

4.12

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the author’s own unnerving experiences during decades spent in the former Soviet Union.… read more

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20. A Chosen Path

By: Ben Carlyle

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rebecca’s father, Edward, scoots Sam Mitchell from Bangkok to London. Boris Voikevich, only days… read more

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21. Inside Intelligence

By: Anthony Cavendish

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg

22. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed

23. Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

By: Matthew Syed

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rebel Ideas examines the power of 'cognitive diversity' - the ability to think differently about th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Too Secret Too Long by Chapman Pincher

24. Too Secret Too Long

By: Chapman Pincher

4.01

Format: 623 pages, Kindle Edition

Chapman Pincher, the Cold War and the spy scandals which shocked the nation. Chapman Pincher, the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse

By: Edward Wake-Walker

4.20

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

An unforgettable history of French intelligence agents and courageous British pilots who risked eve… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Putin: His Life and Times

By: Philip Short

4.32

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Illegal: The Hunt for a Russian Spy in Post-War London by Gordon Corera

27. The Illegal: The Hunt for a Russian Spy in Post-War London

By: Gordon Corera

3.87

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

Gordon Lonsdale arrived in London in 1955. A successful Canadian businessman and lover of the high … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia

By: Robert B. Baer

3.69

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA and the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Silk Road: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Network of Trade Routes Established during the Han Dynasty of China and How It Connected the East and West (Ancient Asia) by Captivating History

29. The Silk Road: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Network of Trade Routes Established during the Han Dynasty of China and How It Connected the East and West (Ancient Asia)

By: Captivating History

3.71

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Silk Road, then keep reading... Free History… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of GCHQ: Centenary Edition by Richard Aldrich

30. GCHQ: Centenary Edition

By: Richard Aldrich

4.40

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION ‘An important book’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times ‘An intrigui… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Their Chosen Way (The Roads Chosen Book 3)

By: Ben Carlyle

4.26

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

The final episode of the trilogy depicting ‘Sam Mitchell’s war with Russian organised crime’ is aga… read more

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10 Top audiobook books like GCHQ: Centenary Edition by Richard Aldrich

Transform Your Habits

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

William H. McRaven

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

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

Catherine Belton

4.18

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11 best-selling history books like Too Secret Too Long by Chapman Pincher

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Anonymous , E.A. Wallis Budge

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Orlando Figes

4.81

Transform Your Habits

Memoirs Of A British Agent: Being An Account Of The Author's Early Life In Many Lands And Of His Official Mission To Moscow In 1918

R.H. Bruce Lockhart

3.95

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