Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
By: Norman M. Naimark
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable--the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides show…
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1. Alan Turing: The Enigma
By: Andrew Hodges , Douglas R. Hofstadter
3.75
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-bo… read more
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"His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world."-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
"The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clea…"-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
"HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing — as did the games on the Colossi — and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the 'intelligent' and the 'mechanical'. His view, exp…"-Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
2. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
3. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
By: Gregory Feifer
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first… read more
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4. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
5. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
By: Thomas de Waal
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Choice" Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Black Garden is the definitive study of how Armenia and Az… read more
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6. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
7. The Stars My Destination
By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester
4.06
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more
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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
8. Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship
By: Andrew Wilson
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus's complicated road to nationhood and to e… read more
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9. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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10. Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess: The Lives of Guy Burgess
By: Andrew Lownie
4.02
Format: 293 pages,
Guy Burgess is the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - the group of … read more
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11. Fatherland
By: Robert Harris
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country i… read more
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12. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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13. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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14. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
By: Timothy Snyder
4.36
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more
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"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
15. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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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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"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
17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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18. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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19. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
20. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.23
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more
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21. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
By: Leigh Phillips
3.90
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more
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22. 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
23. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
24. Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
By: Angela Stent
4.19
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin’s making, and the Russian leader, throug… read more
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25. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
By: Simon Shuster
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more
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26. A Message from Ukraine
By: Volodymyr Zelensky
4.64
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
An urgent call to arms from Time’s Person of the Year, the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courag… read more
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"Ukraine did not seek greatness. But Ukraine has become great."-Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine
27. Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
By: Timothy Phillips
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye… read more
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28. China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
By: Daniel Markey
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is zealously transforming its wealth … read more
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29. Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death
By: Jenny Kleeman
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, hav… read more
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30. Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
By: Norman M. Naimark
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable--the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides show… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
