10 Top history books like Elite by Ranulph Fiennes

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Elite

By: Ranulph Fiennes

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Riveting stuff. Through the prism of his experience of the military elite, Fiennes presents a dazz…

If you liked the history plot in Elite by Ranulph Fiennes , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man

1. Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire

By: John Man

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and save… read more

Similar categories in John Man's Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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2. First in Action

By: Duncan Falconer

4.32

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

The SBS was first into battle a month before the SAS in the Falklands War and again in the Gulf War… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Falconer's First in Action book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Deceiver

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.04

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

As an intrepid and inventive field agent, McCready's independent style has often driven him beyond … read more

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  • audiobook
"And you?"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Deceiver

"Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very…"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Deceiver

4. Walking the Nile

By: Levison Wood

3.87

Format: 144 pages, ebook

A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walki… read more

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5. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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6. The Day of the Jackal

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more

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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

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7. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

By: Niall Ferguson

3.93

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more

Similar categories in Niall Ferguson's Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

8. Soldier Spy

By: Tom Marcus

3.79

Format: 223 pages,

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9. The Cobra

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the New York Times-bestselling grandmaster of internati… read more

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10. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume… read more

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11. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

Similar categories in Carlo Rovelli's White Holes book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By: Laurence Rees

4.53

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the … read more

Similar categories in Laurence Rees's Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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13. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

Similar categories in Bent Flyvbjerg's How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Erebus: The Story of a Ship

By: Michael Palin

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more

Similar categories in Michael Palin's Erebus: The Story of a Ship book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen by Erika Fatland

16. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen

By: Erika Fatland

4.40

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more

Similar categories in Erika Fatland's Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Regiment: 15 Years in the SAS by Rusty Firmin

17. The Regiment: 15 Years in the SAS

By: Rusty Firmin

4.22

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

From its early beginnings in World War II, the Special Air Service (SAS) has won renown in some of … read more

Similar categories in Rusty Firmin's The Regiment: 15 Years in the SAS book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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18. Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits

By: Richard Davies

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in har… read more

Similar categories in Richard Davies's Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

By: Damien Lewis

4.44

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two… read more

Similar categories in Damien Lewis's SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
Cover of Born Fearless: From Kids' Home to SAS to Pirate Hunter - My Life as a Shadow Warrior by Phil Campion

20. Born Fearless: From Kids' Home to SAS to Pirate Hunter - My Life as a Shadow Warrior

By: Phil Campion

4.02

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition with Audio/Video

Meet ‘Big’ Phil Campion. To his fellow operators he’s a private military contractor. To you or me h… read more

Similar categories in Phil Campion's Born Fearless: From Kids' Home to SAS to Pirate Hunter - My Life as a Shadow Warrior book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • war
  • audiobook
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21. Elite

By: Ranulph Fiennes

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Riveting stuff. Through the prism of his experience of the military elite, Fiennes presents a dazz… read more

Similar categories in Ranulph Fiennes's Elite book and Ranulph Fiennes's Elite

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Frederick Forsyth

4.04

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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

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3.93

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White Holes

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4.10

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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

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4.11

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4.14

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