7 Best military fiction books like The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 by Alistair Horne

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The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

By: Alistair Horne

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71is the first book of Alistair…

If you liked the military fiction plot in The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 by Alistair Horne , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Memory and the Mediterranean

By: Fernand Braudel

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A grand sweep of history by the late Fernand Braudel–one of the twentieth century’s most influentia… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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2. 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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  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"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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3. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

By: Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the ci… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • european history
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4. The First World War: A Complete History

By: Martin Gilbert

4.16

Format: 680 pages, Paperback

It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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5. 1848: Year of Revolution

By: Mike Rapport

3.72

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the c… read more

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  • history
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • france
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6. The Civil War in France

By: Karl Marx

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • history
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7. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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8. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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9. The Edwardians: Biography of the Edwardian Age

By: Roy Hattersley

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer before… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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10. Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

By: James D. Hornfischer

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailorsand Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essentia… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

By: Alistair Horne

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71is the first book of Alistair… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • european history

12. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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13. 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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14. The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

By: Martin Windrow

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

In December 1953 French paratroopers, who had been searching for the elusive Vietnamese army, were … read more

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15. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more

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16. Dispatches

By: Michael Herr

4.22

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"for years now there had been no country here but the war."

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

17. 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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18. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"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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19. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
Cover of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer

20. 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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  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands by Alexander    Watson

21. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands

By: Alexander Watson

4.13

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

In the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a s… read more

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  • military fiction
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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history

16 Best history books like The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 by Alistair Horne

Transform Your Habits

Memory and the Mediterranean

Fernand Braudel

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The First World War: A Complete History

Martin Gilbert

4.16

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14 Top history books like The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

4.13

Transform Your Habits

July 1914: Countdown to War

Sean McMeekin

3.68

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