Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
3.83
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the s…
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1. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.14
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more
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2. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
By: Antony Beevor
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more
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3. Flashman on the March (The Flashman Papers, #12)
By: George MacDonald Fraser
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
It's 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero,… read more
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4. Because the Night (Lloyd Hopkins, #2)
By: James Ellroy
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pa… read more
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5. 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
By: Donald P. Ryan
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ancient Egypt wasn’t all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life wa… read more
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6. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more
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7. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
By: James L. Swanson
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more
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8. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
3.95
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more
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9. Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
3.83
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the s… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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11. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more
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"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
12. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
By: Philip Matyszak
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most po… read more
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"Every time Titus comes to Rome, he feels his sinuses cringe in horror."-Philip Matyszak, 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
13. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
14. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
By: Daniel Ellsberg
4.21
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the awf… read more
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15. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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16. Accident by Design
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.24
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
Accident by Design was honestly a really well done classic British mystery. I was surprised, expect… read more
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17. Caligula (The Damned Emperors, #1)
By: Simon Turney
3.98
Format: 360 pages, ebook
Caligula: loving brother, reluctant ruler and tortured soul. The five children of Germanicus are… read more
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18. Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
By: Michael W. Hankins
3.88
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Flying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, stat… read more
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19. Death Came Softly (Robert MacDonald #23)
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.17
Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition
This crime puzzle features Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, who is a “London Scot” and an avowed b… read more
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