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

I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Robert Graves
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
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Count Belisarius
Robert Graves
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
The Story of Russia
Orlando Figes
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
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1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell
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
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Black Water Rising
Attica Locke
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
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
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
Rum Punch
Elmore Leonard
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
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Talleyrand
Duff Cooper
@FlorianKeulers @beatricedegraaf @Simonschama Yes beautifully written. Duff cooper understood talleyrand
Paperback, 2001
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Damascus Station
David McCloskey
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
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Barbara W. Tuchman
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