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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 13,530 ratings — published 2005
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 8,227 ratings — published 1962
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 83,378 ratings — published 1962
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 67,256 ratings — published 1998
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 145,939 ratings — published 1960
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 4,351 ratings — published 1987
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 13,016 ratings — published 2003
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 155,483 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7,712 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,114,105 ratings — published 1947
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 5,779 ratings — published 1996
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 19,160 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 4,528 ratings — published 1975
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,570 ratings — published 1965
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 — 18,515 ratings — published 2004
The First World War (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 15,727 ratings — published 1999
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 40,461 ratings — published 1998
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 11,851 ratings — published 2003
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as modern-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,785 ratings — published 1997
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 17,807 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as modern-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 62,352 ratings — published 2019
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 15,970 ratings — published 2016
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 6,240 ratings — published 1989
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 14,208 ratings — published 1951
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 36,636 ratings — published 2006
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 261,877 ratings — published 1980
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 12,827 ratings — published 2003
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 — 32,088 ratings — published 2020
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 27,600 ratings — published 2014
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 33,977 ratings — published 1973
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 121,496 ratings — published 1991
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 — 9,643 ratings — published 1989
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 — 746,572 ratings — published 2003
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 97,519 ratings — published 2009
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 7,245 ratings — published 2005
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,333 ratings — published 2006
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 7,388 ratings — published 2005
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 19,964 ratings — published 2019
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 847,511 ratings — published 1946
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 27,829 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 — 5,055 ratings — published 2010
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as modern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,247 ratings — published 2006
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 87,669 ratings — published 1946
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,343,912 ratings — published 1956
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,222,897 ratings — published 2011
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,629 ratings — published 2012
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,053 ratings — published 1983
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 69,422 ratings — published 1938
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 7,161 ratings — published 2012
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 28,921 ratings — published 1978
“It was a roiling and mobile civilization marked by a steady increase in carnality, vulgarity, brutality. Yet, oddly, the institutions and the accustomed frameworks of liberal parliamentary democracy, of that highest creation of the now passing Modern Age, continued to exist--at a time when civilization itself (a term first appearing in English in 1601) was coming apart. History is not governed by logic: but we must at least consider that this strange duality cannot exist much longer: that sooner or later the very political structure of democracy may undergo a deep-going and at least for a while irreversible transformation, including mutations that may have already begun.”
― Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
― Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.”
― Patriot: A Memoir
― Patriot: A Memoir
