16 must-read nonfiction books like Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972-2020 by Arjun Subramaniam

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Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972-2020

By: Arjun Subramaniam

4.40

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The armed forces have played a key role in protecting India's sovereignty and raising its stature a…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972-2020 by Arjun Subramaniam , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.11

Format: 562 pages, Paperback

At only fourteen, Nathaniel is a rising star: a young magician who is quickly climbing the ranks of… read more

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"Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)

"Ia bukan demon , bukan penyihir. Ia lebih baik dari mereka. Keserakahan dan sikap mementingkan diri sendiri bukanlah sifatnya."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)

"Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)

"I—though forced through lack of space to assume the form of a stoic guinea pig crouched between the girl's shoe and the glove compartment—was my usual dignified self."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)

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2. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By: Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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3. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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4. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. A Little History of the World

By: E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

6. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By: Ben Horowitz

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally h… read more

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7. The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account … read more

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"For after the Battle comes quiet."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]"

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

8. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

By: Clayton M. Christensen

3.92

Format: 368 pages,

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9. The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition

By: None

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

A radical reassessment in British colonial history by the former ADC to the last Viceroy of British… read more

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10. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacheris a publishing first… read more

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11. Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give hi… read more

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12. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

By: Peter Thiel , Blake Masters

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is … read more

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13. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more

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14. The Difficulty of Being Good : On the Subtle Art of Dharma

By: Gurcharan Das

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his new book, Gurcharan Das turns to the Mahabharata in order to answer the question, 'why be go… read more

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15. The Decisive Battles of World History

By: Gregory S. Aldrete

4.07

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Many of the most decisive turning points in the history of the world have been battles. More than j… read more

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16. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more

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17. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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  • war
"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

18. Night School (Jack Reacher #21)

By: Lee Child , Dick Hill

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Audio CD

It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the after… read more

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19. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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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21. Why Bharat Matters

By: S. Jaishankar

3.94

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Whether drawing strength from its heritage and culture or approaching challenges with the optimism … read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The official narrative of India's freedom struggle has almost entirely been about the non-violent p… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

By: J. Sai Deepak

4.46

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of Europea… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The spiritual character of the relationship between indigeneity and nature is an emotion that the coloniser can at best exoticise but can never relate to."

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"Rest of the world was not living in the Dark Ages before Pax Europaea or European Peace, and will certainly not plunge into ignorance and darkness after the demise of Pax Europaea. Therefore, it is t…"

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"Until a decolonial approach is employed by experts and ‘intellectuals’, we will continue to see the entrenchment of colonialised identities and fissures, which began with an anti-Brahmin slant but wh…"

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millenn…"

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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24. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more

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  • nonfiction
"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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25. War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.65

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH. BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE? INDIA, 3400 BCE. Greed. Rage.… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • war
"Fresh drops of grief do not cause any ripple in an ocean of anguish."

-Amish Tripathi, War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

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26. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

By: Stephen Fry

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Green fingers are better than gold."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

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27. India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation (Bharat Trilogy #2)

By: J. Sai Deepak

4.63

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward fro… read more

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  • india
  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

By: Vikram Sampath

4.72

Format: 600 pages, Hardcover

Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924

By: Vikram Sampath

4.58

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in I… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
"In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the …"

-Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924

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30. Let's Talk Money

By: Monika Halan

4.44

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

We work hard to earn our money. But regardless of how much we earn, the money worry never goes away… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
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31. Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972-2020

By: Arjun Subramaniam

4.40

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The armed forces have played a key role in protecting India's sovereignty and raising its stature a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
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  • india

14 Best history books like Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972-2020 by Arjun Subramaniam

Transform Your Habits

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Transform Your Habits

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Transform Your Habits

A Little History of the World

E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None

4.11

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5 best-selling audiobook books like Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 by Vikram Sampath

Transform Your Habits

The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

Sanjeev Sanyal

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom

Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

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