Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989
By: Rodric Braithwaite
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a timely and eye-opening book Rodric Braithwaite examines the Russian experience in that most re…
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1. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
2. Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
By: Matthew Syed
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront… read more
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"Creativity is, in many respects, a response."-Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
"Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organizational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic Nationa…"-Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
3. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I
By: Fernand Braudel , Siân Reynolds
4.32
Format: 642 pages, Paperback
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixt… read more
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"Semper versans, semper in motu. (mereu ratacind, mereu in miscare)"-Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I
4. Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
By: Hal Gold
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan d… read more
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5. The Crimean War: A History
By: Orlando Figes
4.06
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account… read more
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"Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests."-Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History
6. Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939
By: Don Hagen , Volker Ullrich
4.43
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A major new biography-an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personifica… read more
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"Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would ha…"-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939
"Hitler's unusually improvisational and personal style of leadership, which created constant responsibility conflicts and an anarchic tangle of offices and portfolios, was anything but an expression o…"-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939
7. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
By: None , Larry Heinemann , Julia Whitby , Robin Whitby , Svetlana Alexievich
4.30
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed … read more
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"There’s not much humanity in a human being — that’s what war taught me."-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
"Jenže já tam nechal krev… Svou… I cizí… Dávali nám vyznamenání, která nenosíme…"-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
"Dreptul omului de a nu ucide. De a nu învața să ucidă. Neînscris în nicio constituție."-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
"Každá stránka Zinkových chlapců volá: lidé, nedopusťte, aby se tento krvavý zlý sen opakoval!"-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
8. The White Guard
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Michael Glenny
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
The White Guardis less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it i… read more
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9. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
By: Joby Warrick
3.64
Format: None pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising i… read more
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10. Cold War
By: Taylor Downing , Jeremy Isaacs
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our … read more
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11. Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989
By: Rodric Braithwaite
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a timely and eye-opening book Rodric Braithwaite examines the Russian experience in that most re… read more
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12. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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13. 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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14. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
By: Tom Burgis
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth … read more
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15. The English Civil War
By: Diane Purkiss
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
This is a remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those invol… read more
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16. Il sergente nella neve
By: Mario Rigoni Stern , Eraldo Affinati
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I ricordi della ritirata di Russia scritti in un lager tedesco dall'alpino Rigoni Stern nell'invern… read more
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17. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
By: Frank Dikötter
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of… read more
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18. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
By: Anne Applebaum
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more
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19. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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20. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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21. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
22. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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23. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
24. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
25. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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26. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
27. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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28. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more
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29. Across The Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam (Expanded Edition)
By: John Stryker Meyer
4.49
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
For eight years, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, America… read more
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30. The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia
By: Mark Galeotti
3.81
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s … read more
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31. Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond
By: A.J. Balaam
3.72
Format: 540 pages, Kindle Edition
From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rh… read more
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