The Soviet Sixties
By: Robert Hornsby
4.40
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the S…
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1. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
2. 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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- russia
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- russian history
3. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Sam Walton: Made In America
By: Sam Walton , John Huey
3.82
Format: 295 pages,
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, w… read more
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6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By: Katherine Boo
3.96
Format: None pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more
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7. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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8. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
By: Ian Mortimer
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more
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- history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"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. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
11. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
12. 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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- russia
- history
- russian history
13. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
By: Kelefa Sanneh
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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- history
- audiobook
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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- russia
- history
- audiobook
"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. 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
- audiobook
18. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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- history
- audiobook
19. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
4.19
Format: 630 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Perfume the literature you write with only the finest inks, for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume. —Arabic saying ~800 AD"-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
"In Arabic ‘the written symbol is considered to be identical with the sound indicated by it’. Letters are not just phonetic; they are phonic, acoustic,’… script that fills the ears of him that sees it…"-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
20. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- history
- audiobook
21. The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
By: Edward Achorn
4.51
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
23. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
By: Alex Ross
4.18
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer… read more
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- history
- audiobook
24. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
25. The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
4.20
Format: 656 pages, ebook
A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Col… read more
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- history
- audiobook
26. The Soviet Sixties
By: Robert Hornsby
4.40
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the S… read more
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27. The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film
By: David Thomson
3.34
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism
By: John Mackey
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Whole Foods Market’s Cofounder and CEO for 44 years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative… read more
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- history
- audiobook
29. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- history
- audiobook
30. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
By: Wright Thompson
4.51
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from aroun… read more
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- history
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