Historical, Dark & Mesmerizing

1.
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart 3.98 avg rating — 11,891 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War 3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,925 ratings
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton 3.93 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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The Leper Messiah
The Leper Messiah
by: R.M. L.
4.62 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Fatal Shore
The Fatal Shore 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 4.01 avg rating — 220,463 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,332 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,489 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,227 ratings
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The Bomb
The Bomb 4.28 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes 3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings
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You'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut: And Other Little-Known Secrets, Shocking Facts, and Amusing Trivia about Death and Dying
You'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut: And Other Little-Known Secrets, Shocking Facts, and Amusing Trivia about Death and Dying 4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings
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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency 4.07 avg rating — 4,977 ratings
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Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases
Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases 3.44 avg rating — 48 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating — 115,994 ratings
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Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler
Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler 3.97 avg rating — 35 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 Scarlet Thread
The Scarlet Thread 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,260 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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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,878 ratings
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War
War 4.25 avg rating — 23,759 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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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,290 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating — 215,206 ratings
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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by: Greg King
3.73 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found 3.75 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,299 ratings
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Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond 4.05 avg rating — 3,685 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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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing 4.25 avg rating — 138 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge 4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,294 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,434 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
Stay Alive, My Son 4.37 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia 4.13 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky 3.49 avg rating — 627 ratings
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From a Clear Blue Sky
From a Clear Blue Sky 4.27 avg rating — 295 ratings
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When I Fell From the Sky
When I Fell From the Sky 3.74 avg rating — 3,664 ratings
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Warning, The Story of Cyclone Tracy
Warning, The Story of Cyclone Tracy 3.45 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,033 ratings
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White Butterflies
White Butterflies 4.44 avg rating — 150 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two 4.34 avg rating — 189 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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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,932 ratings
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Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood 3.38 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918
Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin 4.12 avg rating — 291 ratings