Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
By: Rhys Richards
4.15
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu…
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1. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.15
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more
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"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
2. Kill Your Friends
By: John Niven
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-b… read more
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3. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
4. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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5. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- history
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
6. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
By: Don Winslow
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more
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7. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
8. 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
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- history
9. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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10. The Accidental Footballer
By: Pat Nevin
4.10
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teac… read more
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11. Two Brothers
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.27
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Jack and Bobby Charlton, and a family that characterised English football for decades … read more
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12. 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
By: Ned Boulting
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film… read more
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- sports
- history
13. Welcome to Hell?: In Search of the Real Turkish Football
By: John McManus
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe… read more
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14. The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism
By: Chris Lee
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism uncovers the role that footballers and fans have… read more
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15. Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao
By: Christopher James Evans
4.69
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao is the first English language book that tells… read more
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16. The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Football Shaped the Modern Game
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1953, the Mighty Magyars beat England 6-3 at Wembley, a result that echoes through the history o… read more
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17. Streltsov
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.53
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Jonathan Wilson’s novel. Like everybody else at Torpedo Moscow, Vanya loves Eduard Streltsov, the d… read more
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18. Casuals: Football, Fighting & Fashion: The Story of a Terrace Cult
By: Phil Thornton
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
First came the Teds, the the Mods, Rockers, Hippies, Skinheads, Suedeheads and Punks. But by the la… read more
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19. Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia
By: Chris Etchingham
3.97
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
In 1987, a Zvonimir Boban-inspired Yugoslavia won the World Under-20 Championships in Chile, and a … read more
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20. Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
By: Rhys Richards
4.15
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu… read more
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21. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)
By: Ian Rankin
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more
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