Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD
By: John Haywood
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative volume that places the Vikings in their wider geographical and historical context.…
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1. Kim
By: Rudyard Kipling , None
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more
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2. Discourses and Selected Writings
By: Epictetus , Robert F. Dobbin , Robert Dobbin
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN in… read more
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3. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
By: Amin Maalouf
4.20
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses, and … read more
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"Après la destruction d'Alamout (1256), la secte des Assassins s'est perpétuée sous une forme on ne peut plus pacifique : les ismaéliens, adeptes de l'Aga Khan, dont on oublie parfois qu'il est le suc…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"In the space of eighteen months three of the most renowned cities of the Arab world - Tripoli, Beirut, and Saida - had been taken and sacked, their inhabitants massacred or deported, their emirs, qad…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"Pour l'envahisseur, apprendre la langue du peuple conquis est une habileté; pour ce dernier, apprendre la langue du conquérant est une compromission, voire une trahison. De fait, les Franj ont été no…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"La fierté de Maara, c'était d'être la patrie de l'une des plus grandes figures de la littérature arabe, Aboul-Ala al-Maari, mort en 1057. Ce poète aveugle, libre penseur, avait osé s'en prendre aux m…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
4. Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD
By: John Haywood
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative volume that places the Vikings in their wider geographical and historical context.… read more
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5. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
By: Marc Morris
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more
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6. The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
By: Anu Partanen
4.16
Format: None pages, ebook
A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the… read more
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7. Breve historia de los Vikingos (Breve Historia, #5)
By: None
3.75
Format: None pages,
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8. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
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9. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
By: William Craig
4.25
Format: None pages,
Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more
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10. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more
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11. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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12. 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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13. 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
14. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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15. The Shortest History of Germany
By: James Hawes
3.72
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more
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"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany
16. Viking Blood and Blade (The Viking Blood and Blade Saga, #1)
By: Peter Gibbons
4.37
Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition
If you like Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow, David Gemmell and Giles Kristian, you w… read more
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17. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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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. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
20. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
By: Andrea Pitzer
3.74
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Long before Bering or Amundsen, long before Franklin or Shackleton, there was William Barents, in m… read more
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21. The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
By: Daniel McCoy
4.15
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
The Viking Spirit is an introduction to Norse mythology like no other. As you’d expect from Daniel … read more
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"The idea of fate permeated the religion of the Vikings at every turn. Everything in the universe, even the Gods, was subject to it."-Daniel McCoy, The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
"Words – and the intentions and ideas behind them – had the power to change physical reality, just like any other physical phenomenon."-Daniel McCoy, The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
"But Odin had a trick up his sleeve. For his final question to Vafthrudnir, he asked, "And what, wise giant, did Odin whisper in the ear of Balder, before that great son of his was burned on the funer…"-Daniel McCoy, The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
"The male sphere of Norse shamanism consisted of the elite warrior groups known as the berserkir ("bear-shirts") and the úlfheðnar ("wolf-skins"). The berserkers (as we'll refer to the members of both…"-Daniel McCoy, The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
