25 best-selling history books like Poland: The First Thousand Years by Patrice M. Dabrowski

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Poland: The First Thousand Years

By: Patrice M. Dabrowski

3.95

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, a…

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1. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999

By: Timothy Snyder

4.30

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieva… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • poland
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2. Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

By: Norman Davies

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

'The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet we often forget that the past is different… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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3. Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North

By: Robert Ferguson

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay

4. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

By: Peter Gay

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

First published in 1968, Weimar Cultureis one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished caree… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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5. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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6. Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

By: Simon Winder

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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7. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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9. Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620-1676

By: James Lincoln Collier , Christopher Collier

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincol… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History

By: John Julius Norwich

3.81

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history

11. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

By: None

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more

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12. Europe in the High Middle Ages

By: William Chester Jordan

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The Penguin History of Europeseries ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New St… read more

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13. The Reformation: A History

By: Diarmaid MacCulloch

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning history of the Reformation--from the New York Timesb… read more

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14. Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy

By: John Julius Norwich

3.78

Format: None pages,

With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the wo… read more

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15. The Habsburg Empire: A New History

By: Pieter M. Judson

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so … read more

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16. Vikings

By: Neil Oliver

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their … read more

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17. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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18. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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

19. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski

20. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • poland
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21. Poland: The First Thousand Years

By: Patrice M. Dabrowski

3.95

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • poland
Cover of Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade

22. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History

By: Brian Kilmeade

4.16

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue.In March 1836, the Mexican army … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of An Ordinary Man:  The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith

23. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

By: Richard Norton Smith

4.46

Format: 992 pages, Hardcover

From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By: Camilla Townsend

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"

-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

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25. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By: Martyn Rady

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 by Helmut Walser Smith

26. Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

By: Helmut Walser Smith

4.04

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps by Ben Coates

27. The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

By: Ben Coates

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"All along the river, the people I spoke to were hard-working and deeply attached to the mental security blanket of having a decent house, clean car and steady job. They were relatively wealthy, but a…"

-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

"Several years of living in the Netherlands had reduced my innate English prudishness somewhat, but I still suffered from a typical Englishman's angst at public nudity. Cowering between the changing r…"

-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

Cover of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

28. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country by Simon Winder

29. Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country

By: Simon Winder

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Following Germania and Danubia, the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"John of Bavaria, realizing the game was up and his throwing in the priesthood and marrying had just wasted everyone’s time, made Philip the Good his heir. He was shortly thereafter assassinated in Th…"

-Simon Winder, Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country

Cover of Germany: A History by Francis Russell

30. Germany: A History

By: Francis Russell

3.53

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Richard Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany -… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • european history
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31. Great Kingdoms of Africa

By: John Parker

3.59

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, wr… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.31

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Robert Ferguson

4.62

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Taylor Brown

3.89

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