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Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
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3.98 avg rating — 12,086 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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3.81 avg rating — 4,072 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 759,488 ratings
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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3.94 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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The Leper Messiah
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4.61 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Fatal Shore
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4.09 avg rating — 10,384 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 225,445 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 161,791 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 240,460 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 69,115 ratings
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The Bomb
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4.27 avg rating — 459 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings
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You'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut: And Other Little-Known Secrets, Shocking Facts, and Amusing Trivia about Death and Dying
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4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings
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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
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4.07 avg rating — 5,073 ratings
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Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases
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3.43 avg rating — 49 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 — 118,961 ratings
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Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler
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3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
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4.08 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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The Scarlet Thread
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3.58 avg rating — 19 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 — 56,324 ratings
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Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
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3.44 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,703 ratings
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War
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4.25 avg rating — 24,144 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 998,373 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 220,150 ratings
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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
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3.75 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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3.75 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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4.07 avg rating — 19,576 ratings
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Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
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4.05 avg rating — 3,833 ratings
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Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
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3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
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3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
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4.23 avg rating — 141 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
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4.18 avg rating — 5,034 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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4.12 avg rating — 4,365 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 54,228 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
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4.38 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
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4.11 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
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3.50 avg rating — 634 ratings
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From a Clear Blue Sky
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4.27 avg rating — 304 ratings
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When I Fell From the Sky
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3.74 avg rating — 4,055 ratings
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Warning, The Story of Cyclone Tracy
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3.45 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,441 ratings
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White Butterflies
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4.44 avg rating — 155 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
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4.33 avg rating — 197 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
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4.04 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,151 ratings
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Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
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3.38 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War
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4.29 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918
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3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
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4.13 avg rating — 298 ratings
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