The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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1. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more
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- world war i
- history
- world history
- 19th century
- historical
- politics
- war
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Society's revenge matched its fright."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
2. Divided We Fall (Divided We Fall, #1)
By: Trent Reedy
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Divided We Fall is a YA novel set in a frighteningly plausible near future, about what happens when… read more
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- war
3. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
By: Niall Ferguson
3.87
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity… read more
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- world war i
- history
- world history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- european history
"The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable.…"-Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
4. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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- world war i
- history
- world history
- historical
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
5. To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
By: Ian Kershaw
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kersh… read more
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- world war i
- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- european history
6. A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
By: Vasily Grossman , Antony Beevor , Luba Vinogradova
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
7. The War Poems
By: Siegfried Sassoon
3.81
Format: 343 pages,
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this boo… read more
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- politics
- war
8. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germ… read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- war
- nonfiction
9. The First World War
By: John Keegan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more
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- world war i
- history
- war
- nonfiction
- european history
10. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
By: Andrew Roberts
3.38
Format: None pages,
The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than … read more
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11. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
By: John W. Dower
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel … read more
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12. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
By: Alistair Horne
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the colla… read more
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13. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
By: Samantha Power
2.50
Format: 52 pages,
A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America faile… read more
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14. The German War: A Nation Under Arms
By: Nicholas Stargardt
4.34
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the… read more
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- history
- historical
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- war
- nonfiction
- european history
15. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
By: G.J. Meyer
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account… read more
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16. Men at Arms
By: Evelyn Waugh
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdier… read more
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17. Dreadnought
By: Robert K. Massie
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more
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18. The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914
By: Margaret MacMillan
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with … read more
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19. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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- history
- war
20. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
21. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
