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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 13,657 ratings — published 2005
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 8,378 ratings — published 1962
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 84,057 ratings — published 1962
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as modern-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,174 ratings — published 1998
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as modern-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,163 ratings — published 1960
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 4,423 ratings — published 1987
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 161,309 ratings — published 2018
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 13,332 ratings — published 2003
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7,807 ratings — published 1994
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,632 ratings — published 1965
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 4,602 ratings — published 1975
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,148,855 ratings — published 1947
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as modern-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,871 ratings — published 1996
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 19,502 ratings — published 2010
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 18,691 ratings — published 2004
The First World War (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 15,798 ratings — published 1999
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 16,156 ratings — published 2016
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 40,899 ratings — published 1998
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as modern-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 12,154 ratings — published 2003
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 52,838 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 63,739 ratings — published 2019
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 6,310 ratings — published 1989
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 14,524 ratings — published 1951
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 12,983 ratings — published 2003
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 18,266 ratings — published 2019
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9,738 ratings — published 1989
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 37,141 ratings — published 2006
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 263,997 ratings — published 1980
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 33,863 ratings — published 2020
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 20,681 ratings — published 2019
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 28,085 ratings — published 2014
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 34,404 ratings — published 1973
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 122,699 ratings — published 1991
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 752,673 ratings — published 2003
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,267 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 98,664 ratings — published 2009
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 7,370 ratings — published 2005
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,392 ratings — published 2006
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 7,423 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 862,021 ratings — published 1946
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 70,403 ratings — published 1938
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 28,502 ratings — published 1974
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 5,123 ratings — published 2010
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 88,592 ratings — published 1946
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,352,561 ratings — published 1956
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,241,444 ratings — published 2011
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,859 ratings — published 2012
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,219 ratings — published 1983
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 7,233 ratings — published 2012
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 29,312 ratings — published 1978
“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.”
― Patriot: A Memoir
― Patriot: A Memoir
“Once again, I was conscious of the paradox of the compound: that here, at the heart of the unfolding events, we could catch no more than a glimpse of them. Fires were burning all over Dili; the smell was in our nostrils from the moment we wok up, and occasionally we could see columns of smoke. But the flames themselves, and the faces of the fire starters, were invisible. At the computers in the Unamet press room, we waited in turn to log on to the news websites and learn what was happening to us.”
― In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
― In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
