The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron
By: Andrew Roberts
4.02
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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By: Dominic Sandbrook
4.34
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, t… read more
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2. 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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3. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more
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4. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
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5. The Romanovs: 1613-1918
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
3.17
Format: None pages,
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more
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6. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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7. George V: Never a Dull Moment
By: Jane Ridley
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively… read more
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8. 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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9. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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10. 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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11. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)
By: John Banville
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more
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12. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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16. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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17. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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18. Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of Liz Truss and Her Astonishing Rise to Power
By: Harry Cole
3.74
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Liz Truss’s journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain’s new prime minister. She is the lo… read more
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19. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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20. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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21. Field of Dreams: 100 Years of Wembley in 100 Matches
By: Nige Tassell
3.71
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
100 years of Wembley Stadium told through 100 matches. The 1923 FA Cup final – also known as the W… read more
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22. Get It On: How the ’70s Rocked Football
By: Jon Spurling
4.31
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
A decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a new generation of footballers and managers beca… read more
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23. Crassus: The First Tycoon
By: Peter Stothard
3.56
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory … read more
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24. Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London
By: Alice Loxton
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstree… read more
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25. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
By: Tim Shipman
4.03
Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition
The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more
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26. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope
By: Clive Myrie
4.31
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more
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27. The Presidents: 250 Years of American Political Leadership
By: Iain Dale
4.02
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
There was a huge upsurge of global interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating… read more
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28. The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
By: Martin Williams
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 w… read more
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29. A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65
By: David Kynaston
4.41
Format: 905 pages, Kindle Edition
The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' S… read more
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30. The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron
By: Andrew Roberts
4.02
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'Superb...his pages fizz with character and colour' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Scholarly and … read more
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31. Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars
By: Simon Heffer
4.31
Format: 941 pages, Hardcover
Sing As We Go is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultural history … read more
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