Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
By: Emily R. Mayhew
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is …
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1. Death of a Bore (Hamish Macbeth, #20)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A BORE: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery … read more
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2. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
3. Testament of Youth
By: Vera Brittain , Mark Bostridge
4.10
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unspa… read more
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- history
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" The Lament of the Demobilised “Four Years,"-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
"I look wildly for facts and I can only find arguments."-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
"Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven..."-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
"I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time."-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
4. In the Cut
By: Susanna Moore
3.26
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
By day, Frannie teaches her writing students about irony and language in all its nuance and unspoke… read more
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"I wondered if I was afraid of him, after all."-Susanna Moore, In the Cut
"He was anxious to go, reluctant to go. Ready to go."-Susanna Moore, In the Cut
"I am so ashamed by the things that used to make me unhappy."-Susanna Moore, In the Cut
"And there was still pleasure in it. A man who knew he could fuck."-Susanna Moore, In the Cut
5. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
6. The Roses of No Man's Land
By: Lyn Macdonald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
"On the face of it," writes Lyn Macdonald, "no one could have been less equipped for the job than t… read more
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7. Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
By: Emily R. Mayhew
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is … read more
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8. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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9. A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
By: Thomas Fleming , Joseph Plumb Martin
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
In this first-hand account of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin narrates his true adventur… read more
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11. The Eye of God (Sigma Force #9)
By: James Rollins
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The crash of a U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an explosi… read more
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12. 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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"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
13. The World's War
By: David Olusoga
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they… read more
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14. Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends
By: Alan Bishop , Mark Bostridge
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
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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. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
17. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Jessica McDiarmid
4.30
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment o… read more
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- history
18. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more
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19. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- history
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
20. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
21. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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22. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
23. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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24. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
By: Harold Schechter
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more
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25. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.20
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more
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26. The Nesting
By: C.J. Cooke
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller. … read more
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27. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
By: Jeremy Dronfield
4.45
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The #1 Sunday Times bestseller—a remarkable story of the heroic and unbreakable bond between a fath… read more
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"The Stair of Death was the epitome of SS thinking — why install a more efficient mechanical conveyor when criminal and Jewish labour was so cheap and the process so satisfyingly punishing?"-Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
28. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
29. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
4.06
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author o… read more
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30. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
By: Robert W. Fieseler
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Eme… read more
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31. The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
By: Anthony Seldon
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Without a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Ant… read more
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