Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens
By: David Stuttard
4.29
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and…
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1. Wees onzichtbaar
By: Murat Isik
4.25
Format: 597 pages, Paperback
De Bijlmermeer, begin jaren tachtig. De vijfjarige Turkse Metin komt met zijn ouders en zus naar Ne… read more
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2. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
By: Tom Holland
4.16
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- greece
3. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.28
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more
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- classics
- biography
- history
- politics
- ancient history
- nonfiction
"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
4. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- politics
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
5. 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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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
6. The Assault
By: Harry Mulisch , Claire Nicolas White , None , None
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborat… read more
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- classics
7. The Persian Expedition
By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell
4.18
Format: None pages,
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more
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- classics
- history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- greece
8. Imperium (Cicero, #1)
By: Robert Harris
4.13
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified… read more
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- ancient history
- politics
"What a terrible audit Death lays upon a man."-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
"Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness."-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
"Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?"-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
"Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati."-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)
9. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more
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- classics
- biography
- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
10. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale o… read more
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- history
- classics
- biography
- nonfiction
11. Dictator (Cicero, #3)
By: Robert Harris
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Imperium...Conspirata...and now, the long-awaited final volume of the author's best-selling Cicero … read more
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12. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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13. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
By: None , Keith Gessen
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more
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14. Napoleon, De schaduw van de revolutie
By: Bart Van Loo
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Bart Van Loo verovert met Napoleon de Lage Landen. Napoleon fascineert. Hij is een van de meest inv… read more
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15. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
By: Steven Lee Myers
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
"A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespeari… read more
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16. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- classics
- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
17. The First Crusade: The Call from the East
By: Peter Frankopan
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated … read more
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18. Conspirata (Cicero, #2)
By: Robert Harris
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
- Internationally bestselling author: "Imperium" was hailed as "quite possibly Harris's most accomp… read more
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19. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
20. The Boy Between Worlds
By: Annejet van der Zijl
3.94
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the emotionally stirring story of unlikely lovers who brave the bigotry of their era, only … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
21. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
By: Peter Sarris
4.29
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessme… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
22. The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
By: Barry S. Strauss
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A “splendid” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
23. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
24. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
25. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
26. Lenin the Dictator
By: Victor Sebestyen
4.25
Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition
'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An e… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
"In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours."-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
"If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die..."-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
"The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democra…"-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
27. Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
By: Robin Waterfield
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most im… read more
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- biography
- history
- philosophy
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- greece
28. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
By: Jared Diamond
3.90
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
29. King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
By: Philip Mansel
4.09
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Louis XIV wanted to conquer time and space - to push the borders of France which he inherited out i… read more
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- biography
- history
- nonfiction
30. Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens
By: David Stuttard
4.29
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and… read more
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- politics
- military fiction
- philosophy
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- greece
31. Leven met de goden. Religie in de oudheid
By: Inger N.I. Kuin
3.38
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Religieuze rituelen en festivals bepaalden het ritme van het dagelijks leven in de klassieke oudhei… read more
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