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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Joel F. Harrington

320 pages • first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

3.5james2021's review
nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

3.5james2021's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

432 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

3.5james2021's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

The Rise and Fall

Stephen Brusatte

404 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

3.0james2021's review
nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

David Talbot

480 pages • first pub 2007 (editions) user-added

4.0james2021's review
nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

292 pages • first pub 1959 (editions) user-added

4.0james2021's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Stephen Kinzer

272 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

4.0james2021's review
nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard

375 pages • first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

4.0james2021's review
nonfiction biography history informative tense medium-paced
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (20th Anniversary Edition) by David Fromkin

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (20th Anniversary Edition)

David Fromkin

672 pages • first pub 1989 (editions) user-added

3.0james2021's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
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