A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater sou…
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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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"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. 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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"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
3. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
4. Medieval Europe
By: Chris Wickham
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more
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5. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater sou… read more
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- medieval history
- nonfiction
- european history
- medieval
6. Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
By: Thomas Cahill
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history--this one focusing on… read more
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7. Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot
By: Martin W. Sandler
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"The only thing new in the world," said Harry S. Truman, "is the history you don't know." In this f… read more
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8. 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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9. This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
By: John Brockman
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills a… read more
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10. Pontius Pilate
By: Ann Wroe
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
The foil to Jesus, the defiant antihero of the Easter story, mocking, skeptical Pilate is a histori… read more
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11. The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
By: Joel F. Harrington
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overloo… read more
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12. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
By: John M. Barry
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connect… read more
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13. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
14. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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15. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
16. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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17. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
18. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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19. Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
By: Anthony Everitt
4.04
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqu… read more
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20. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
By: Elizabeth Norton
3.87
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace in… read more
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