12 best-selling history books like Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop

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Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

By: Patrick Bishop

4.20

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrat…

If you liked the history plot in Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Point Counter Point

By: Aldous Huxley

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest ex… read more

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"¡Cómo la odio a usted, en realidad, por obligarme a quererla tanto!"

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"But one does not marry a set of virtues and talents; one marries an individual human being."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

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2. Munich

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Munich book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • world war ii

3. Look Who's Back

By: Jamie Bulloch , Timur Vermes

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have c… read more

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4. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

Similar categories in Yanis Varoufakis's Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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6. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

By: Anthony Seldon

4.22

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Seldon's Johnson at 10: The Inside Story book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

Similar categories in Julian T. Jackson's France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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9. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

By: Paul M.M. Cooper

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on t… read more

Similar categories in Paul M.M. Cooper's Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Alvesdon

By: James Holland

4.28

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Wiltshire, 1939In the small village of Alvesdon, the Castell family and their farm have been staple… read more

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  • world war ii
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11. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

By: Sam Freedman

4.50

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more

Similar categories in Sam Freedman's Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • nonfiction
"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."

-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

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12. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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13. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

By: Patrick Bishop

4.20

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrat… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By: Stephen Alford

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor sp… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Alford's All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Tom Clancy Shadow State (A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Book 12)

By: M.P. Woodward

4.57

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Surviving a helicopter crash in the Vietnamese Highlands is only the start of the challenges facing… read more

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17. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World book and Patrick Bishop's Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Berlin Duet

By: S. W. Perry

4.43

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

UNITED BY WAR. DIVIDED BY A SECRET.From silent era Hollywood and the nightclubs of pre-war Vienna t… read more

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19. Arnhem: Black Tuesday

By: Al Murray

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thw… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
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20. Sonny Boy: A Memoir

By: Al Pacino

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Where do I go to get a director? I’ve never hired one in my life. I’ve only starred in three films. I said, “Marty, I don’t know how to interview anybody. This is completely crazy."

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"A strange and discordant mix of roles followed. I liked one film I did, The Humbling, because I did it with Barry Levinson. It was based on the novel by Philip Roth, who I met at a party in New York.…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"As I was heading back, I began to hear the sound of someone crying, which you sort of expect in a graveyard. I looked around to see where it was coming from. And there, sitting on a tombstone, was Fr…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"Another young actor in Charlie’s class with me was a guy by the name of Martin Sheen. In one session Marty did a monologue from The Iceman Cometh, and he blew the roof off—I said, this is it, this is…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

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21. Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

By: James Holland

4.37

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed World War II historian James Holland vividly relates the dramatic last months of the cruc… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history

11 Top nonfiction books like Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Anthony Seldon

4.22

Transform Your Habits

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

Julian T. Jackson

4.17

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14 Top audiobook books like Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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