Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan
By: Bruce Lee
4.21
Format: 888 pages, Kindle Edition
The “extraordinarily informed” account of how US cryptographers broke Japan’s Purple cipher to chan…
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1. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt
By: William L. Shirer
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more
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2. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
2.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Unfinished Talesis a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth t… read more
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3. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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4. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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5. Glenn Ford: A Life
By: Patrick McGilligan , Peter Ford
2.76
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Glenn Ford--star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma,… read more
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6. Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
3.77
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more
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7. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
8. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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9. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
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"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
10. Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II
By: Matthew Black
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told true story of how mobster Charles “Lucky” Luciano—the U.S. Mafia boss who put… read more
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11. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
12. 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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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more
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14. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more
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15. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
By: Lynn Vincent
4.45
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in … read more
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16. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
By: James Vincent
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more
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17. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
By: David I. Kertzer
4.28
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church… read more
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18. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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19. 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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20. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.40
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of le… read more
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21. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes
By: Tim Brady
4.01
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
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22. Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
By: Rinker Buck
3.96
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23. Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
By: Steve Kemper
4.37
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24. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
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“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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25. Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)
By: Peter Gretton
4.21
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26. Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, The Golden Age of Aviation and the rise of Fascism
By: David Hanna
4.03
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27. Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
By: Catherine Musemeche
4.04
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28. Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
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3.87
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29. Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker
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30. X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
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31. Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan
By: Bruce Lee
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Format: 888 pages, Kindle Edition
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