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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 454,525 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 420,232 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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3.81 avg rating — 4,070 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 754,222 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 84,217 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 380,576 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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4.23 avg rating — 29,758 ratings
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John Adams
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4.08 avg rating — 376,778 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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4.40 avg rating — 33,746 ratings
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1776
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4.10 avg rating — 247,201 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,033 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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4.16 avg rating — 11,674 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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4.23 avg rating — 26,990 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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3.83 avg rating — 12,846 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 122,998 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 199,266 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 83,234 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.25 avg rating — 53,133 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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3.88 avg rating — 21,798 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 198,988 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
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4.69 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
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4.71 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
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4.73 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
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4.69 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,355,143 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 108,117 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,465 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 101,763 ratings
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Greek Fire and Its Contribution to Byzantine Might
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4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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4.17 avg rating — 48,140 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 517,002 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,555 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,251 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 94,779 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 22,733 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 67,533 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
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4.28 avg rating — 3,046 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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4.37 avg rating — 3,546 ratings
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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4.31 avg rating — 31,353 ratings
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
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4.09 avg rating — 10,324 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 15,816 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.75 avg rating — 30,312 ratings
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
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3.63 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
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4.73 avg rating — 109 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 264,782 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,035 ratings
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Gettysburg
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4.36 avg rating — 5,106 ratings
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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3.96 avg rating — 3,905 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,922 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 28,655 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
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4.34 avg rating — 26,103 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 229,272 ratings
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
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4.16 avg rating — 4,323 ratings
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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4.17 avg rating — 34,667 ratings
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
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4.44 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.21 avg rating — 7,125 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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4.04 avg rating — 950 ratings
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All The Shah's Horses
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
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4.20 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Mexico
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3.75 avg rating — 5,645 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,373 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
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3.94 avg rating — 973 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.89 avg rating — 218,891 ratings
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 10,760 ratings
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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3.94 avg rating — 28,992 ratings
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
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4.26 avg rating — 4,728 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.81 avg rating — 33,608 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 34,503 ratings
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
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4.16 avg rating — 4,181 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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4.02 avg rating — 26,376 ratings
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Amarna Book I: Book of Ida
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
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3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes
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3.94 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Japan's Pacific War: The Great Asia-Pacific War and Japanese strategic conundrum
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Small Island, Big History: Essays On the British Empire
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
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4.18 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
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Iran from Crown to Turbans
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4.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
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4.13 avg rating — 6,509 ratings
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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3.81 avg rating — 1,643 ratings
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Der Morgen der Welt: Geschichte der Renaissance
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Historiën
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1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
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One Summer: America, 1927
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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4.17 avg rating — 12,620 ratings
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Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
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4.18 avg rating — 1,825 ratings
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The Good German of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe
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4.11 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History
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4.16 avg rating — 499 ratings
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Ideas That Changed the World
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3.76 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.15 avg rating — 23,023 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 160,621 ratings
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
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4.05 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
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4.28 avg rating — 5,166 ratings
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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4.16 avg rating — 8,589 ratings
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Byzantium: The Apogee
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4.42 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
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3.67 avg rating — 10,284 ratings
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The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe And the Birth of Warfare As We Know It
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3.80 avg rating — 615 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.30 avg rating — 12,587 ratings
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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
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3.96 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 181,066 ratings
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