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Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
4.26 average rating, · 29.9k ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.05 average rating, · 45.1k ratings
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
4.39 average rating, · 20.5k ratings
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Auschwitz
Laurence Rees
4.32 average rating, · 18.4k ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
4.16 average rating, · 23.3k ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
4.38 average rating, · 14.1k ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark
4.24 average rating, · 14.7k ratings
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The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
4.32 average rating, · 13.2k ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
4.13 average rating, · 15.4k ratings
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Dan Jones
4.39 average rating, · 11.1k ratings
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The First World War
John Keegan
4.05 average rating, · 16.1k ratings
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.15 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Neil Price
4.14 average rating, · 10.3k ratings
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Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
Bernard Cornwell
4.24 average rating, · 9k ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.12 average rating, · 9.9k ratings
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The Third Reich in Power
Richard J. Evans
4.37 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy
4.28 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Adam Hochschild
4.14 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.29 average rating, · 8.1k ratings
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
John Keegan
4.12 average rating, · 8.8k ratings
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Margaret MacMillan
4.26 average rating, · 7.6k ratings
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Robert K. Massie
4.32 average rating, · 7k ratings
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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580
Roger Crowley
4.30 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
Thomas Asbridge
4.23 average rating, · 7.4k ratings
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