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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.17 — 233,478 ratings — published 2023
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,327 ratings — published 2022
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.14 — 465,865 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,302,335 ratings — published 1947
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,939 ratings — published 2023
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,896 ratings — published 2001
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,838 ratings — published 2023
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,347 ratings — published 2021
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,841 ratings — published 1999
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,025 ratings — published 2017
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,342 ratings — published 2003
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,376 ratings — published 2012
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,517 ratings — published 2014
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,068 ratings — published 1956
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,190 ratings — published 890
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,494 ratings — published 1995
Great Masters: Shostakovich His Life & Music (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.43 — 324 ratings — published 2000
Queens of the Conquest (England’s Medieval Queens, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,227 ratings — published 2017
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,346 ratings — published 2024
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.44 — 893 ratings — published 2025
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,859 ratings — published 2020
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,384 ratings — published 2022
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,501 ratings — published 2024
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,879 ratings — published 2012
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,415 ratings — published 2020
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,802 ratings — published 2021
Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.17 — 65 ratings — published 2024
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.32 — 281,737 ratings — published 2025
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,596 ratings — published 2024
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,187 ratings — published 2024
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,908 ratings — published 2016
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,174 ratings — published 1945
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,989 ratings — published 2004
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,390 ratings — published 2023
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.47 — 188,563 ratings — published 2018
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,585 ratings — published 2020
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,339 ratings — published 2015
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,613 ratings — published 2024
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,862 ratings — published 2014
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,464 ratings — published 2023
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,728 ratings — published 2015
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,797 ratings — published 2023
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,145 ratings — published 2010
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,112 ratings — published 2006
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,706 ratings — published 2003
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,090 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,595 ratings — published 2016
The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.73 — 761 ratings — published 2021
Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 4.29 — 358 ratings — published
Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-fact)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,932 ratings — published 2021
“The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod, consisting of thinly sliced, buttered bread and many delectable toppings.”
― Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus
― Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus
“It's amazing to observe numerous dull beings with some illusion of knowledge around you. In their mind, they know that God exists, but even if it is not case that God exists, they would still believe it. In their mind, they know that some political ideologies express objectivity, but even if it is not case that these ideologies express objectivity, they would still believe them. In their mind, they know that some historical facts are true, but even if it is not case that these facts are true, they would still believe them. Whatever is in their mind is merely belief but not knowledge. The paradox of knowledge emerges when a person confuses knowledge with belief.”
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