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S Sebag Montefiore Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Simon Sebag Montefiore is a biographer and author of history and fiction. Historian. The World:a Family History. StalinRedTsar. YgStalin. TheRomanovs. CatherinetheGreat&Potemkin. Jerusalem Novels:Sashenka.OneNightinWinter.RedSky

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Book Cover for: I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54, Robert Graves

I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54

Robert Graves
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The greatest historical novels that inspired my love of history. 5. Michael Moorcock BrothelonRosenstrasse / Pyatt quartet. 6. Dickens Tale of 2 Cities. 6. Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian. 7. Robert Graves Count Belisarius (& I Claudius). 8.Patrick OBrian Aubrey/Maturin novels https://t.co/gfss6j8OL2

Paperback, 1989

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Count Belisarius, Robert Graves

Count Belisarius

Robert Graves
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The greatest historical novels that inspired my love of history. 5. Michael Moorcock BrothelonRosenstrasse / Pyatt quartet. 6. Dickens Tale of 2 Cities. 6. Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian. 7. Robert Graves Count Belisarius (& I Claudius). 8.Patrick OBrian Aubrey/Maturin novels https://t.co/gfss6j8OL2

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Story of Russia, Orlando Figes

The Story of Russia

Orlando Figes
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This just arrived. Starting to read. As always with @orlandofiges’s books: elegantly written, fascinating, masterly in span and detail - and in now very timely. Reading on.... @BloomsburyBooks

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
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George Orwell’s 1984 is Russian bestseller. If true this makes sense. The novel was based on Stalin’s dictatorship and so are many aspects of Putin’s autocracy today https://t.co/Xx0nLxrjUF

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Black Water Rising, Attica Locke

Black Water Rising

Attica Locke
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My favourite thrillers. 9. Alan Furst. Night Soldiers. 10. Don Winslow The Cartel trilogy. 11. Attica Locke Black Water Rising. 12. Graham Greene Quiet American. 13. David Ignatius The Increment CIA series. 14. Stephen King scaremeister of the American heartland https://t.co/5IIVC5MGe0

Paperback, 2010

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
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Now i can read lots of fiction, liberated fr manically reading every new historybook i just got this #DemonCopperhead and its wonderfully poetically foulmouthed and viscerally pungently compellingly alive a trailerpark Copperfield on Vicadin #barbarakingsolver @FaberBooks https://t.co/WzPMsriN0d

Paperback, 2024

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard

Rum Punch

Elmore Leonard
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My favourite thrillerists. 1. John le Carre. TinkerTailorSoldierSpy/Perfect Spy. One of the one or two greatest writers in English of late 20thC. 2. Elmore Leonard. Rum Punch & Hombre and Get Shorty & much else. The maestro. 3. Michael Connelly creator of Bosch. https://t.co/xRIz3tD0n9

Paperback, 2011

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Talleyrand

Duff Cooper
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@FlorianKeulers @beatricedegraaf @Simonschama Yes beautifully written. Duff cooper understood talleyrand

Paperback, 2001

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Damascus Station, David McCloskey

Damascus Station

David McCloskey
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So enjoyed this interview about Damascus Station the best spy thriller of 2022. Looking frwd to the next! ⁦@mccloskeybooks⁩ ⁦@ShippersUnbound⁩ David McCloskey: the spy who came in from Damascus https://t.co/uJYnPXc39Y

Paperback, 2022

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series, Barbara W. Tuchman

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

Barbara W. Tuchman
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I should have made that the eight books that made me love history…. How cld i forget Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower https://t.co/HZTlc3P8VU

Paperback, 1996

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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