cool breeze's votes on the list Best History Books

Listopia > cool breeze's votes on the list Best History Books (39 Books)

1	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 4.02 avg rating — 15,447 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer 4.22 avg rating — 147,537 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.33 avg rating — 34,508 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman 4.05 avg rating — 43,964 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk 4.33 avg rating — 9,063 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The White Nile by Alan Moorehead 4.12 avg rating — 1,466 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements by Kevin B. MacDonald 4.23 avg rating — 665 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by Peter Schweizer 4.34 avg rating — 2,449 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M. Stanton Evans 4.12 avg rating — 700 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest 4.14 avg rating — 1,202 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 6,258 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 4.13 avg rating — 5,286 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk 4.26 avg rating — 817 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia by Peter Hopkirk 4.20 avg rating — 1,087 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet by Peter Hopkirk 4.18 avg rating — 1,354 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk 4.17 avg rating — 1,561 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge 4.49 avg rating — 47,352 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 37,276 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness by T.R. Fehrenbach 4.18 avg rating — 4,264 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński 4.36 avg rating — 7,769 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman 4.18 avg rating — 84,226 ratings cool breeze rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism by James Burnham 4.08 avg rating — 557 ratings cool breeze rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Jungle Is Neutral by F. Spencer Chapman 4.05 avg rating — 872 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Kennedy Babylon: A Century of Scandal and Depravity by Howie Carr 4.13 avg rating — 108 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	A fighting retreat: The British Empire, 1947-1997 by Robin Neillands 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan 4.04 avg rating — 735 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie 4.31 avg rating — 6,931 ratings cool breeze rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Spanish Civil War by Stanley G. Payne 4.09 avg rating — 172 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Long Live Death: The Keys to Victory in the Spanish Civil War by A.H. Lloyd 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 4.53 avg rating — 28,720 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead 4.16 avg rating — 890 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger 4.15 avg rating — 21,411 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray 3.98 avg rating — 591 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre 4.19 avg rating — 29,239 ratings cool breeze rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton 4.36 avg rating — 7,794 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II by George MacDonald Fraser 4.15 avg rating — 4,098 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Why Did Europe Conquer the World? (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Philip T. Hoffman 3.41 avg rating — 251 ratings cool breeze rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman 4.12 avg rating — 9,649 ratings cool breeze rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre 4.52 avg rating — 87,248 ratings cool breeze rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars