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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as factual)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,313,104 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as factual)
avg rating 4.21 — 432,794 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as factual)
avg rating 4.21 — 490,263 ratings — published 1988
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,268 ratings — published 2008
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as factual)
avg rating 4.33 — 179,346 ratings — published 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as factual)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,299,692 ratings — published 1947
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as factual)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,426 ratings — published 2011
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,796 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 4.17 — 610,200 ratings — published 2011
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as factual)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,859 ratings — published 2010
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 4.14 — 199,958 ratings — published 2014
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 4.01 — 908,348 ratings — published 2005
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as factual)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,179 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,725 ratings — published 2018
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as factual)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,079 ratings — published 2015
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as factual)
avg rating 4.04 — 252,497 ratings — published 1985
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,556 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 3.73 — 39,441 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.13 — 823,542 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 4.19 — 885,271 ratings — published 2008
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as factual)
avg rating 3.92 — 121,506 ratings — published 1995
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.31 — 103,698 ratings — published 2019
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.07 — 483,427 ratings — published 2012
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,536 ratings — published 2015
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,466 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,419 ratings — published 1997
The Fry Chronicles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 3.85 — 23,127 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,217,441 ratings — published 1996
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as factual)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,628 ratings — published 1980
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.09 — 750,002 ratings — published 1966
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.06 — 246,877 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,389 ratings — published 2010
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,082 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,683 ratings — published 1976
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as factual)
avg rating 3.82 — 49,946 ratings — published 2007
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,470,739 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,054 ratings — published 2017
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,877 ratings — published 1990
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,901 ratings — published 2012
Them: Adventures with Extremists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,183 ratings — published 2001
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,798 ratings — published 2012
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.16 — 65,803 ratings — published 1956
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.94 — 591,435 ratings — published -500
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.31 — 127,818 ratings — published 1991
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,483 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,851 ratings — published 2009
The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,302 ratings — published 2006
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 3.84 — 396,938 ratings — published 1513
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as factual)
avg rating 4.07 — 455,344 ratings — published 1998
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as factual)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,817 ratings — published 2023
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“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which together with supporting units, formed a regiment and the battalions making up the regiment were identified by both their number and the title of the regiment. This meant that the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment was identified by the initials of 1RAR. The two other battalions were identified as 2RAR or 3RAR. At the height of Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) Australia had a total of nine battalions which were later called the First Division.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
