21 Best nonfiction books like The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter by Alan Woods

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The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter

By: Alan Woods

4.18

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

“What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.” —Wilfred Ow…

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1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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2. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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3. It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more

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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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4. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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5. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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6. Yerma

By: Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lo… read more

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7. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The Permanent Revolution, Results and Prospects

By: Leon Trotsky

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

El presente libro esta consagrado a un problema estrechamente relacionado con la historia de las tr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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12. Method and Madness: The hidden story of Israel's assaults on Gaza

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In the past six years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

13. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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14. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Blood in My Eye

By: George L. Jackson

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

16. Ten Days that Shook the World

By: John Reed

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

17. The Selected Poems

By: Federico García Lorca , Donald M. Allen , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorcahas introduced generations of American readers to mesmer… read more

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18. The Revolution Betrayed

By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more

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19. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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20. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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21. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

22. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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23. Red Star Over the Third World

By: Vijay Prashad

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1

By: Rob Sewell

4.77

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain

By: Felix Morrow

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A contemporary account of the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s in which the proletari… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism"

-Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain

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26. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2

By: Rob Sewell

4.78

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution by John Peter Roberts

27. China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution

By: John Peter Roberts

4.42

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

This book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese C… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution by Ted Grant

28. Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution

By: Ted Grant

4.75

Format: 585 pages, Paperback

The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter

By: Alan Woods

4.18

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

“What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.” —Wilfred Ow… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of In the Cause of Labour: A History of the British Trade Unions, 1792 - 2003 by Rob Sewell

30. In the Cause of Labour: A History of the British Trade Unions, 1792 - 2003

By: Rob Sewell

4.33

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lenin Selected Writings: On Imperialist War by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

31. Lenin Selected Writings: On Imperialist War

By: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

5.00

Format: 462 pages, Paperback

This volume is a collection of Lenin's writings on the crucial question of the position of revoluti… read more

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20 Best history books like The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter by Alan Woods

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.25

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

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The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

4.02

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