Books for History Geeks

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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England 3.92 avg rating — 3,429 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,101 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
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Victorian Farm: Rediscovering Forgotten Skills
Victorian Farm: Rediscovering Forgotten Skills 4.39 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Tomb of Tutankhamen
The Tomb of Tutankhamen 4.18 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love 3.75 avg rating — 30,046 ratings
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law 3.91 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
by: Paul Ham
4.35 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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Ill Met By Moonlight
Ill Met By Moonlight 3.97 avg rating — 793 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life 3.99 avg rating — 97,412 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future 4.08 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,622 ratings
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De geschiedenis van de VOC
De geschiedenis van de VOC 3.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (The Everyday Life in America Series, Vol. 4)
Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (The Everyday Life in America Series, Vol. 4) 3.79 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania 4.03 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Nightingales : Florence and Her Family
Nightingales : Florence and Her Family 3.80 avg rating — 435 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,814 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,884 ratings
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Churchill: Walking with Destiny 4.38 avg rating — 10,749 ratings
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Leadership: In Turbulent Times 4.40 avg rating — 15,455 ratings
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Geschiedenis van Marokko
Geschiedenis van Marokko 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian Times
The English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian Times 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy 4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
by: Naoko Abe
3.90 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin 4.09 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights 4.20 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Het volk van Abdelkrim: actualiteit en geschiedenis van de Marokkaanse Rif
Het volk van Abdelkrim: actualiteit en geschiedenis van de Marokkaanse Rif 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Holidays in Victorian England
Holidays in Victorian England 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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That Dark and Bloody River
That Dark and Bloody River 4.32 avg rating — 924 ratings
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Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine's Orange Revolution 3.45 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age
The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age 3.81 avg rating — 474 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,215 ratings
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 4.14 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Red Chaser: A noir thriller of the 1950s, the cold war and the Brooklyn Dodgers
Red Chaser: A noir thriller of the 1950s, the cold war and the Brooklyn Dodgers 3.82 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London 4.01 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy 3.82 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen 4.03 avg rating — 4,252 ratings
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Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,310 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,043 ratings
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 4.17 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
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De Geschiedenis van Rusland
De Geschiedenis van Rusland 3.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Victorian Railway
The Victorian Railway 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Monty: The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
Monty: The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 3.70 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience
The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience 4.23 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Autobiography of Mother Jones
Autobiography of Mother Jones 4.15 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Geschiedenis der Westerse Filosofie : in samenhang met politieke en sociale omstandigheden van de oudste tijden tot heden
Geschiedenis der Westerse Filosofie : in samenhang met politieke en sociale omstandigheden van de oudste tijden tot heden 4.13 avg rating — 40,911 ratings
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Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation
Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation 3.29 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror 4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won 4.46 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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March of the Suffragettes: Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the March for Voting Rights
March of the Suffragettes: Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the March for Voting Rights 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Het kamp van Broos en Kaliko : de geschiedenis van een Afro-Surinaamse familie
Het kamp van Broos en Kaliko : de geschiedenis van een Afro-Surinaamse familie 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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What the Victorians Did for Us
What the Victorians Did for Us 4.23 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War 3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History 3.97 avg rating — 648 ratings
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849 4.18 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 4.08 avg rating — 7,066 ratings
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Blues People: The Negro Experience In White America And The Music That Developed From It
Blues People: The Negro Experience In White America And The Music That Developed From It 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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Roman Britain (The Pelican History of England, #1)
Roman Britain (The Pelican History of England, #1) 3.12 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Most Disgusting Jobs in Victorian London
The Most Disgusting Jobs in Victorian London 3.69 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
by: Guy Hull
3.87 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s 3.92 avg rating — 1,299 ratings
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The Beginnings of English Society (The Pelican History of England, #2)
The Beginnings of English Society (The Pelican History of England, #2) 3.46 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Ladybird Histories: Victorians
Ladybird Histories: Victorians 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force 3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Berlin 1961
Berlin 1961 4.11 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels 4.26 avg rating — 15,724 ratings
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England
A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England 3.87 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 3.97 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship 4.16 avg rating — 8,446 ratings
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Tudor England (The Pelican History of England, #5)
Tudor England (The Pelican History of England, #5) 3.39 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways: Terrors and Torments, Diseases and Deaths
Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways: Terrors and Torments, Diseases and Deaths 3.58 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House 3.86 avg rating — 55,953 ratings
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England in the Eighteenth Century (The Pelican History of England, #7)
England in the Eighteenth Century (The Pelican History of England, #7) 3.56 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Eyewitness Victorians
Eyewitness Victorians 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,458 ratings
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father 4.03 avg rating — 711 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power 4.05 avg rating — 42,295 ratings
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England in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 (The Pelican History of England, #8)
England in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 (The Pelican History of England, #8) 3.52 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Tudors For Dummies
The Tudors For Dummies 3.99 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar
Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders 4.23 avg rating — 8,122 ratings
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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush 4.13 avg rating — 8,550 ratings
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The Penguin History of New Zealand
The Penguin History of New Zealand 4.13 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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On the Trail of the Tudors in Britain
On the Trail of the Tudors in Britain it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn 3.98 avg rating — 14,167 ratings
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation 3.86 avg rating — 3,137 ratings
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Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia
Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia
by: David Day
3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Tudor
Tudor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928) 4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Author
Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Author 4.03 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating — 136,017 ratings
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Avonturen aan de Wilde Kust : De geschiedenis van Suriname met zijn buurlanden
Avonturen aan de Wilde Kust : De geschiedenis van Suriname met zijn buurlanden 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England
A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England 4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Race To Save The Romanovs
Race To Save The Romanovs 3.80 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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