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1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year
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The Turning Point: 1851. A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
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3.87 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America
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The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
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A Brief History of Thailand: Monarchy, War and Resilience: The Fascinating Story of the Gilded Kingdom at the Heart of Asia
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Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
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The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
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Korea: A History
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Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
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Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West
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Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror
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The Zambezi: A History
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Earthopolis. A Biography of Our Urban Planet
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The Nineties
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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II
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4.32 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
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In Search of Romania
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3.96 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Worst Military Leaders in History
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The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything
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4.05 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953
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3.99 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas
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4.13 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
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4.40 avg rating — 848 ratings
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
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4.15 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
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4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Jerusalem: History of a Global City
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
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4.08 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
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Beer: A Global Journey through the Past and Present
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3.30 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World
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4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Seven Games: A Human History
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3.88 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
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3.91 avg rating — 317 ratings
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The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State
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3.65 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
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3.71 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Crécy: Battle of Five Kings
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Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War
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Lady of Spain: A Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria
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The Inca: Lost Civilizations
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Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe
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Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
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The Castle: A History
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3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
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3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals
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3.91 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
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4.39 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
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3.35 avg rating — 303 ratings
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The Neoliberal Age? Britain Since the 1970s
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
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3.98 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
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4.42 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
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The Civil Wars of General Joseph E. Johnston: Confederate States Army - Volume I: Virginia and Mississippi, 1861–1863
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Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits
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Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State
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4.14 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea
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4.02 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
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3.96 avg rating — 105 ratings
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A Herstory of Economics
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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
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History of the Adriatic: A Sea and Its Civilization
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Who Owned Waterloo?: Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815-1852
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2020
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The Phoenicians: Lost Civilizations
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The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224–651
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The Welsh Braveheart: Owain Glyndŵr, The Last Prince of Wales
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
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4.33 avg rating — 2,998 ratings
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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The Lion House
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
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1942: Britain at the Brink
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
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The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World
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The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
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Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World
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The Blue Water War: The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940–1945
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Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
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Fire and Steel: The End of World War Two in the West
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Democracy in Afghanistan: The Golden Era of Reform and the Roots of Modern Conflict
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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3.85 avg rating — 1,878 ratings
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The Outfit: The Absolutely True Story of the Time Joseph Stalin Robbed a Bank
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3.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
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4.18 avg rating — 1,760 ratings
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Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
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The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
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The House of Godwin: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty
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Stalking Shakespeare
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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3.84 avg rating — 16,992 ratings
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia
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Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra
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Early Modern World, 1450-1750: Seeds of Modernity
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Bosworth: The Archaeology of the Battlefield
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London 1870-1914: A City at its Zenith
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The Pursuit of Europe: A History
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The Wuhan Lockdown
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
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The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years, 1891–1910 (Volume 3) (Mark Twain and His Circle)
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Extreme North: A Cultural History
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10 at 10: The Surprising Childhoods of Ten Remarkable People
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Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
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On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues
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Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
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