Strange Meeting
By: Susan Hill
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. 'He was af…
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1. Burnt Shadows
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man i… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When the war's over, I'll be kind."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"بالنسبة الي هيروكو، أن تعرف يعني أن تُريد"-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"إن كان أعظم ما فقدهُ في حياته ليس سوى حلم كان يعرف دائمًا أنه مجرد حلم، فهو إذن من المحظوظين."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
2. Journey's End
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.86
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more
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- world war i
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End
3. Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3)
By: Edward St. Aubyn
3.79
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest a… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- british literature
"Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth."-Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3)
4. The First Casualty
By: Ben Elton
3.94
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German … read more
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- world war i
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"But these are only words and probably convey only a fraction of their meaning to the hearers. They shudder and it is forgotten."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"Don't you just love the army? They take a fellow who's been turned into a catatonic mute by being shelled from here to Christmas and say he's not yet been properly diagnosed but he seems a bit nervou…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"I'm twenty-two and a woman. One of the ways men diminish women's status and our contribution whilst simultaneously entrenching their quasi-paternal male authority is to call us girls. Girls go to sch…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
5. Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
By: Elizabeth M. Norman , Michael Norman
4.20
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America’s … read more
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- war
6. A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
By: Sebastian Barry
4.14
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyaltie… read more
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- world war i
- literature
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood."-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
"I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart."-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
"She was altered by time and how he wished he was to be the man to comfort her in that and avow to her that no lessening of youth would bring a lessening of love"-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
"Heroic things had been suggested to them, and though they were not heroes as you might read about in old Greek stories, their hearts, such as they were, answered."-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
7. I Shall Be Near to You
By: Erin Lindsay McCabe
3.33
Format: None pages,
An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Charioteer
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' … read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
9. Everybody Sees the Ants
By: A.S. King
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vi… read more
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- fiction
10. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the r… read more
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- war
11. Strategy: A History
By: Lawrence Freedman
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one … read more
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- war
12. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
By: Mark Mazzetti
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's… read more
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- war
13. Mother's Milk (The Patrick Melrose Novels, #4)
By: Edward St. Aubyn
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Writing with the scathing wit and bright perceptiveness for which he has become known, celebrated E… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- british literature
14. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
By: Dominic Hoffman , Steve Sheinkin
4.35
Format: None pages, Audio CD
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve … read more
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- historical
- war
15. Sharpe's Trafalgar (Sharpe, #4)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback--bestselling his… read more
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16. The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
By: Neal Bascomb
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hunting Eichmannand The Perfect Milean epic adven… read more
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17. Escape From Warsaw
By: Ian Serraillier , None
3.81
Format: 263 pages,
WARSAW 1942 On a cold, dark night in Warsaw in 1942, the Balicki children watch in horror as Nazi S… read more
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18. The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private… read more
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19. Strange Meeting
By: Susan Hill
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. 'He was af… read more
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- world war i
- lgbt
- literature
- historical
- british literature
- war
- 20th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
20. The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
By: Shelby Foote
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop move… read more
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21. We Stand On Guard
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Steve Skroce , Fonografiks , None
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . SAGA writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN teams with artistic l… read more
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22. The Three Witches and The Master
By: Max Nowaz
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more
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- fiction
"Where’s my uncle?"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
23. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
By: Yvonne Korshak
4.29
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
24. 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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- war
25. 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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- war
"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
26. 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
27. 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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- war
"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
28. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more
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29. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
By: Lindsey Hilsum
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Marie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Wi… read more
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- war
"Palestinian youths used stones and marbles, often in slingshots, to taunt young Israeli soldiers, who shot back with tear gas and live fire. The Palestinians always came off worse. Funerals would tur…"-Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
