The Burma Wars: 1824-1886 (Conflicts of Empire)
By: George Bruce
3.89
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
Between 1824 and 1885 Britain and Burma fought in three deadly struggles. The first was the long…
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1. The Fall of Berlin 1945
By: Antony Beevor
4.29
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more
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"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945
2. Charlemagne
By: Peter Lewis , Johannes Fried
3.68
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Wes… read more
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3. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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4. Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "spec… read more
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5. 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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6. To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
By: Arthur Herman
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
To Rule the Wavestells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to … read more
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7. The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
By: Andrew Wheatcroft
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Major historian Andrew Wheatcroft reveals the full story behind four centuries of Ottoman incursion… read more
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8. Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
By: James Romm
3.33
Format: None pages,
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9. Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
By: Thomas Penn
4.00
Format: None pages,
It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and count… read more
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10. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
By: Peter Cozzens
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate … read more
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11. Royal Flash (The Flashman Papers, #2)
By: George MacDonald Fraser
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In volume 2 of The Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardl… read more
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12. Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
By: Seneca , James Romm
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne ("Gripping . . . the narrative ve… read more
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13. Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832
By: Antonia Fraser
3.49
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Antonia Fraser's Perilous Questionis a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in B… read more
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14. Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
By: Tracy Borman
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his ques… read more
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15. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.11
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbreakin… read more
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16. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
17. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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18. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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19. 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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20. Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
By: Sid Meier
4.19
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming,” an… read more
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"In the right context, a game is not just a vehicle for fun, but an exercise in self-determination and confidence."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Separately is probably how I work best with everyone, to be honest. I'm an introvert who likes people: I want to collaborate on the whole, but do my part individually."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Whatever it is you want to be good at, you have to make sure you continue to read, and learn, and seek joy elsewhere, because you never know where inspiration will strike."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Games were not just a diversion, I realized. Games could make you feel. If great literature could would its power through nothing but black squiggles on a page, how much more could be done with movem…"-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
21. November 1918: The German Revolution
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is general… read more
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22. 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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23. The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia
By: Mark Galeotti
3.81
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s … read more
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24. Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation
By: Philip Matyszak
4.02
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and off… read more
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25. Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900: "The White Man's Grave"
By: Stephen Manning
4.10
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the n… read more
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26. The Puritans: A Transatlantic History
By: David D. Hall
3.80
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England This book is a sweeping … read more
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27. Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC
By: Philip Matyszak
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander th… read more
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28. The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President
By: Geoff Shepard
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Geoff Shepard’s shocking exposé of corrupt collusion between prosecutors, judges, and congressional… read more
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29. Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
By: Roger Crowley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European mar… read more
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30. The Burma Wars: 1824-1886 (Conflicts of Empire)
By: George Bruce
3.89
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
Between 1824 and 1885 Britain and Burma fought in three deadly struggles. The first was the long… read more
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