19 must-read nonfiction books like The Real War 1914-1918 by B.H. Liddell Hart

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The Real War 1914-1918

By: B.H. Liddell Hart

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In The Real War, the author ha…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Real War 1914-1918 by B.H. Liddell Hart , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings

1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

By: Max Hastings

4.06

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • world history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

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2. Osmanlı'yı Yeniden Keşfetmek (Osmanlı'yı Yeniden Keşfetmek, #1)

By: İlber Ortaylı

3.60

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

“Osmanlı Devleti’nin kuruluşunun 700. yıl kutlamaları Türkiye’de umulmaz bir ilgi uyandırdı ve Türk… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. 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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  • world war i
  • history
  • world history
  • war
  • nonfiction
"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

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4. The Lessons of History

By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant

4.07

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

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5. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

By: Roger Lowenstein , Edwin Lefèvre

4.18

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1923, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is the most widely read, highly recomm… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing"

-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

"No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play."

-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

"Old Baron Rothschild’s recipe for wealth winning applies with greater force than ever to speculation. Somebody asked him if making money in the Bourse was not a very difficult matter and he replied t…"

-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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6. Napoleon: A Life

By: Andrew Roberts

4.23

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

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7. Munich

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more

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  • war
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8. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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9. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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10. Nutuk

By: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , Zeynep Korkmaz

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ataturk`un kendi kaleminden cikan bu eser, yine Ataturk tarafindan Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi`nin 15-2… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Lieutenant Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his … read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
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12. The Real War 1914-1918

By: B.H. Liddell Hart

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In The Real War, the author ha… read more

Similar categories in B.H. Liddell Hart's The Real War 1914-1918 book and B.H. Liddell Hart's The Real War 1914-1918

  • world war i
  • history
  • world history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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13. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Second World War

By: Antony Beevor

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier hist… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell

3.37

Format: None pages,

Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. The Last Days of the Incas

By: Kim MacQuarrie

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • world history
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17. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

18. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

By: S. Frederick Starr

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but large… read more

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19. 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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20. The Zimmermann Telegram

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more

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21. The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King A… read more

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22. La Bête humaine

By: Émile Zola , Henri Mitterand

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Mass Market Paperback

<< L'essentiel de La Bete humaine, c'est l'instinct de mort dans le personnage principal, la felure… read more

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23. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

By: John King Fairbank , Barbara W. Tuchman

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-45 … read more

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24. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume… read more

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25. 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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  • world war i
  • history
  • world history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"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

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26. Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country

By: John Kampfner

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and entertaining exploration of the country that Britons love to hate by one of our m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

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28. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

By: Jared Diamond

3.90

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

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29. Mutlu Yaşam Üzerine ve Yaşamın Kısalığı Üzerine

By: Seneca

4.06

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Bu kitap Seneca'nın D Vita Beata (Mutlu Yaşam Üzerine) ve De Brevitate Vitae (Yaşamın Kısalığı Üzer… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Cumhuriyetin 100 İsmi: Büyük Devrimin Portreleri

By: Emrah Safa Gürkan

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Mustafa Kemal, kafasındaki inkılapları neden en yakınındakilerden bile gizlemek zorunda kaldı? Enve… read more

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  • history
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31. Sink the Bismarck!

By: C.S. Forester

4.11

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

18 Top history books like The Real War 1914-1918 by B.H. Liddell Hart

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Osmanlı'yı Yeniden Keşfetmek (Osmanlı'yı Yeniden Keşfetmek, #1)

İlber Ortaylı

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Barbara W. Tuchman

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Lessons of History

Will Durant , Ariel Durant

4.07

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If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

Jon Sopel

4.16

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Tim Marshall

4.20

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

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