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20th Century History Books
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 145,874 ratings — published 1960
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,344 ratings — published 1962
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,146 ratings — published 2010
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,620 ratings — published 2012
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 69,375 ratings — published 1938
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 432,815 ratings — published 2017
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,839 ratings — published 2011
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,523 ratings — published 2005
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 626,111 ratings — published 2011
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,438 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,343,421 ratings — published 1956
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,556 ratings — published 2010
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,805 ratings — published 2015
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 54,271 ratings — published 2013
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,112,034 ratings — published 1947
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,006 ratings — published 2003
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,758 ratings — published 2008
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,049 ratings — published 2010
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 12 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,955 ratings — published 1973
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,154 ratings — published 2012
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,838 ratings — published 2003
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 14,920 ratings — published 2001
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 155,122 ratings — published 2018
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,773 ratings — published 1996
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,532 ratings — published 2012
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,863 ratings — published 2013
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,635 ratings — published 2013
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,138 ratings — published 2002
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,738 ratings — published 1997
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,691 ratings — published 2001
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,074 ratings — published 1986
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,399 ratings — published 1999
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,636 ratings — published 1989
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 63,563 ratings — published 1997
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,333 ratings — published 2017
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,053 ratings — published 2015
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 510,235 ratings — published 1928
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,941 ratings — published 2007
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,612 ratings — published 1946
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 22,705 ratings — published 1992
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 994,494 ratings — published 2010
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,123 ratings — published 2006
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,377 ratings — published 1977
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,204 ratings — published 1963
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,737 ratings — published 2005
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,506 ratings — published 2004
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,763 ratings — published 2020
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,507 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,295 ratings — published 1965
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 20th-century-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,103 ratings — published 2003
“There were no other vessels in the sound; the big white sports fisherman streaked along like a solitary comet on the surface of the world.”
― Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller
― Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller
“Theoreticians attempting to dissect human history by force fitting contrived definitions about “modernism” and “post-modernism” are toiling in vain, effectively emptying buckets into the river rapids of flowing time.”
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