16 Top nonfiction books like The Curtain and the Wall by Timothy Phillips

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The Curtain and the Wall

By: Timothy Phillips

4.36

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the ol…

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1. The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

By: Philip Roth

3.91

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a… read more

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"Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"موته كان خلاصها.الموت تدخل ليبسط كل شيء.كل شك،كل ريبة،كل الهواجس أزيحت جانبا على يد ذلك المستخف الأعظم بهم جميعا،الذي هو الموت."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

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2. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)

By: Ian Fleming

3.57

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note #1: this entry is for one of the editions that includes the fourth story, "007 in … read more

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3. I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)

By: Philip Roth

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

I Married a Communistis the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who… read more

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4. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

By: Bill Bryson

3.24

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

By: David McKittrick , David McVea

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • european history

7. Nattmannen (William Wisting, #5)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Identiteten er ukjent, men hun er apenbart ung. William Wisting star overfor det mest groteske drap… read more

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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • european history
"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

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9. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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10. Grenseløs (William Wisting, #16)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

3.88

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

William Wisting blir kontaktet av lederen for en gruppe mennesker som har funnet hverandre på inter… read more

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11. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • european history
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12. 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
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13. 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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  • nonfiction
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14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • european history
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16. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • european history
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18. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen

By: Erika Fatland

4.40

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Grote verwachtingen: In Europa 1999-2019

By: Geert Mak

4.21

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

Een verbluffende geschiedenis van ons heden, waarin de eerste twee decennia van dit meest fragiele … read more

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  • european history
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21. The Curtain and the Wall

By: Timothy Phillips

4.36

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the ol… read more

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David McKittrick , David McVea

3.77

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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder

4.20

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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4.36

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James O'Brien

4.29

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