15 best-selling war books like The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

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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…

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1. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

By: Nikolaus Wachsmann

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of th… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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2. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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3. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

By: Adam Tooze

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)

By: Ian Kershaw

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Re… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45

By: Ian Kershaw

4.14

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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6. 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
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7. 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
  • european history
Cover of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

8. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

By: Tony Judt

4.37

Format: 933 pages, Paperback

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

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9. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Michael B. Oren

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Eve… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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10. Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Hitler, #2)

By: Ian Kershaw

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The New Yorkerdeclared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to defini… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history

11. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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12. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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13. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • politics
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  • european history
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

14. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

By: Adam Tooze

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more

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15. Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

By: Richard Miles

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death … read more

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16. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

By: Christopher Clark

3.35

Format: None pages,

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17. 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

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18. 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

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19. 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
  • european history
"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

Cover of The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James  Holland

20. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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21. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • politics
  • germany
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  • nonfiction
  • european history

14 Top history books like The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

Transform Your Habits

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann

4.06

Transform Your Habits

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

Ian Kershaw

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

Adam Tooze

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)

Ian Kershaw

3.00

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9 Best audiobook books like Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer

Transform Your Habits

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Katja Hoyer

4.17

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