The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
By: Robert Fisk
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an awa…
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1. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
By: Keith Lowe
4.22
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for anot… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
"Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo."-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
"While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on the grounds that what Germans in eastern Europe suffe…"-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
"The rationing system that was set up in Britain at the outbreak of the hostilities was as revolutionary as anything the Communists could have dreamed up. Almost every basic item of food was rationed …"-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
2. The Thirty Years War
By: Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood
4.18
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
- world history
"The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid."-Anthony Grafton, The Thirty Years War
3. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
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4. Semper Fi (The Corps, #1)
By: W.E.B. Griffin
3.98
Format: 392 pages,
Semper Fi (The Corps, Book 1) From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of d… read more
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- war
5. The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
By: Shelby Foote
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the histo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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6. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror Half a century ago, the United States overthrew … read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
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- nonfiction
7. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
By: John Toland
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Ja… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
8. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
By: Robert Fisk
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an awa… read more
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- history
- islam
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- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- journalism
9. Gone to Soldiers
By: Marge Piercy
4.07
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and fo… read more
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- war
10. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
By: M.T. Anderson
4.35
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the l… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"Some love is so powerful after all, that it must always include sadness, because encrypted within it is the knowledge that someday it will come to an end."-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the ones who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator ... It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes whe…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"Gradually, like the emigration of an insidious, phantom population, Leningrad belonged more to the dead than to the living. The dead watched over streets and sat in snow-swamped buses. Whole apartmen…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"This is a tale of microfilm canisters and secret police, of Communists and capitalists, of battles lost and wars won. It is the tale of a utopian dream that turned into a dystopian nightmare. It is t…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
11. Once There Was a War
By: John Steinbeck
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new … read more
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12. Diplomacy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Sec… read more
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13. The Young Lions
By: Irwin Shaw
4.23
Format: 662 pages, Paperback
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fig… read more
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- war
"Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
"This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and It…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
"The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, a…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
"When I went into the Army, I made up my mind that I was putting myself at the Army's disposal. I believe in the war. That doesn't mean I believe in the Army. I don't believe in any army. You don't ex…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
14. 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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15. Toby's Room (Life Class, #2)
By: Pat Barker
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Hardback
From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of t… read more
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16. Scavenger Hunt
By: Chad Boudreaux
4.30
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
WHEN JUSTICE IS BLIND, SCAVENGERS DO THE HUNTING Blake Hudson just wants to serve his country we… read more
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"What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatical killers?"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"As Blake turned around to continue his walk back to Main Justice, he spotted one of the tourists taking his picture. “Don’t waste your film!"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"Home was the one place he wanted to forget, the place from which he’d run away but never could escape. And, yes, home was the place he’d been instructed to leave—the place where the trouble began and…"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told him. It wasn’t a mission for which she’d volunteered, nor a missio…"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
17. 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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18. 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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- 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
19. 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
20. 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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- history
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"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
21. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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