The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History
By: Peter Millar
3.89
Format: 460 pages, Hardcover
Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist…
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
3. Murdered
By: Paul Alexander
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
For nearly a quarter-century, the Los Angeles Police Department considered the brutal 1986 killing … read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
By: Tim Marshall
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more
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5. The Norman Conquest
By: Marc Morris
4.62
Format: None pages,
An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history. The Norman Conquestst… read more
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6. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45
By: Ian Kershaw
4.14
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a… read more
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- germany
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7. Secrets in the Cellar
By: John Glatt
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more
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- audiobook
8. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By: Michael B. Oren
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Eve… read more
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9. The Second World War: Alone
By: Winston S. Churchill , Christian Rodska
3.10
Format: 151 pages,
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10. Triumph and Tragedy (The Second World War, #6)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive… read more
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- nonfiction
11. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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12. The Grand Alliance (The Second World War, #3)
By: Winston S. Churchill
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive… read more
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13. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
3.89
Format: None pages,
The author of The Reformationreturns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once… read more
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14. Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
The history of Nantucket Island has too often been reduced to a collection of quaint legends and wa… read more
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15. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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16. The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster
By: Winston S. Churchill , Christian Rodska
3.80
Format: 240 pages, MP3 CD
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17. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
By: Gretchen Rubin
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more
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- audiobook
18. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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19. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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21. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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22. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
23. The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction
By: Robert Goddard
4.31
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind… read more
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24. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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25. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
By: Tim Marshall
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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27. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
By: Martyn Rady
4.13
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more
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28. Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
By: Helmut Walser Smith
4.04
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea… read more
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- germany
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29. Animal Societies: How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
By: Ashley Ward
4.06
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In our modern world of social media and relentless technological advancement, we are more connected… read more
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30. The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History
By: Peter Millar
3.89
Format: 460 pages, Hardcover
Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist… read more
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31. Unleashed
By: Boris Johnson
3.00
Format: 761 pages, Kindle Edition
Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Bo… read more
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