Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
By: Timothy Snyder
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In thi…
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1. Thinking the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder , Tony Judt
4.26
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Zkrátka a dobře – lidem, kteří mluví o všem, hrozí ztráta schopnosti mluvit o něčem."-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century
"stejně jako mnoho dalších přeživších se v této době cítili bezpečněji v poraženém Německu než v osvobozených zemích na východě."-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century
"Ztráta víry samozřejmě zdaleka není tak atraktivní jako víra; i když odklon od ní může být racionální, ztrácíte tím víc, než získáváte."-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century
"dějiny nacismu – a vůbec všech forem totalitarismu – nelze plně pochopit, pokud je omezíme na vyprávění o zlých lidech, kteří se vědomě a záměrně dopouštějí zločinů s cílem páchat zlo"-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century
2. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
3. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
By: Timothy Snyder
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In thi… read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
4. Under Fire
By: Henri Barbusse , Robin Buss , Jay Murray Winter , None
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one o… read more
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- war
5. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
6. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
7. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
By: Jan Tomasz Gross
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the… read more
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8. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
By: Milton Sanford Mayer
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap… read more
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9. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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10. Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield
By: Jeremy Scahill
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller. Now also an Oscar-nominated documentary In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, … read more
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11. The Holocaust: A New History
By: Laurence Rees
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
This book answers two fundamental questions about the Holocaust. How, and why, did it happen? Laure… read more
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12. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
By: Anne Applebaum
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more
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13. The Third Reich: A New History
By: Michael Burleigh
4.24
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
A Major Study of One of the Twentieth Century's Darkest Periods Until now there has been no up-to-d… read more
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14. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 470 pages, ebook
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
15. Our Enemies Will Vanish
By: Yaroslav Trofimov
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
16. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
17. Magenta
By: John Payton Foden
4.27
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more
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- war
"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan, please, get to work. Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes. I do. Yo…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed. They silently passed…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
18. The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
By: Benjamin Carter Hett
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic … read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for…"-Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
19. November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War
By: Peter Englund
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, as experienced by the people who l… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
20. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
By: Dan Stone
4.28
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more
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- politics
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
21. Surviving Autocracy
By: Masha Gessen
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's essential guide to understanding, resisting… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"As Trump marches on to the rhythm of near-daily twitter rants, daily outrages, and weekly embarrassments, it remains unimaginable—even if it is observable. To think that a madman could be running the…"-Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy
