13 Top nonfiction books like The Jacobites by Frank McLynn

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The Jacobites

By: Frank McLynn

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A very clear account of this famous episode in history.’ The Sunday Times The Jacobite uprising – …

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Cover of The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

1. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I by Nick Lloyd

2. Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

By: Nick Lloyd

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Fron… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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4. Caesar: Life of a Colossus

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Format: 583 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus book and Frank McLynn's The Jacobites

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

5. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more

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6. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)

By: Robert Graves , Seneca , Suetonius

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. … read more

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7. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more

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8. The Days of the French Revolution

By: Christopher Hibbert

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Marie Antoinette. Napoleon. Louis XVI. Robespierre, Danton, Mirabeau, Marat. Madame Roland's salon.… read more

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9. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

Similar categories in Dan Jones's Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages book and Frank McLynn's The Jacobites

  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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11. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

By: Barry S. Strauss

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who foun… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

By: Tom Holland

4.15

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

Similar categories in Anna Keay's The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown book and Frank McLynn's The Jacobites

  • history
  • nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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14. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Clark's Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 book and Frank McLynn's The Jacobites

  • history
  • nonfiction
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Cover of Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1) by Dan Jones

15. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

By: Dan Jones

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more

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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"

-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

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16. 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

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Frank McLynn's The Jacobites

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Scorpio (Frontlines: Evolution, #1) by Marko Kloos

17. Scorpio (Frontlines: Evolution, #1)

By: Marko Kloos

4.14

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

On a distant Earth colony, an orphaned survivor of an alien invasion discovers that the greatest wo… read more

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18. The Amur River: Between Russia And China

By: Colin Thubron

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. The Amur River is almost unk… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nucleus (Tom Wilde #2) by Rory Clements

19. Nucleus (Tom Wilde #2)

By: Rory Clements

4.14

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author of CORPUS The eve of war: a secret so dea… read more

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Cover of Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis

20. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Cover of The Jacobites by Frank McLynn

21. The Jacobites

By: Frank McLynn

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A very clear account of this famous episode in history.’ The Sunday Times The Jacobite uprising – … read more

Similar categories in Frank McLynn's The Jacobites book and Frank McLynn's The Jacobites

  • history
  • nonfiction

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The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

Nick Lloyd

3.63

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Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Adrian Goldsworthy

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.41

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Alexander the Great

Philip Freeman

4.31

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Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

4.16

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Andrew Roberts

4.23

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