Skip to main content

Books bought at library sales

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown

by Thomas J. Fleming

363 members

8 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

2

Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought

by Michael Stephenson

227 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

3

The Sage of Monticello

by Dumas Malone

592 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

4

The Peloponnesian War

by Donald Kagan

1,909 members

23 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

5

History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (Library of America)

592 members

6 reviews

½ 4.6

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

6

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie

3,407 members

152 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

7

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

8,070 members

135 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

8

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

1,887 members

26 reviews

4

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

9

His Excellency: George Washington

by Joseph J. Ellis

4,229 members

61 reviews

4

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

10

The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption

by James Branch Cabell

431 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

11

Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy

by Joseph Balkoski

200 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Billhere

12

Gentleman Jurist: The Life of Ralph G. Thompson

1 member

1 review

2

Member: blakelylaw

13

Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots

by Thomas S. Kidd

128 members

3.9

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

14

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas L. Friedman

13,916 members

171 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

15

George Washington, the Forge of Experience, 1732-1775

by James Thomas Flexner

250 members

½ 4.3

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

16

Liberty! The American Revolution [1997 TV mini series]

by Thomas Fleming

735 members

7 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

17

Jefferson and the Rights of Man

by Dumas Malone

568 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

18

Jefferson the Virginian

by Dumas Malone

704 members

6 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

19

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

2,420 members

40 reviews

4

2 Members: Billhere, MissKyra

20

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,923 members

317 reviews

4.2

Member: Dilara86

21

National Geographic Society Wild Animals of North America

by National Geographic Society

503 members

7 reviews

4

Member: blakelylaw

22

Miracle at Midway

by Gordon W. Prange

887 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: Billhere

23

Cartas a uma negra (Em Portugues do Brasil)

by Françoise Ega

22 members

3.8

Member: Dilara86

24

China-Burma-India

322 members

½ 3.7

Member: Billhere

25

L'Homme qui donnait aux pigeons

by Aris Fakinos

1 member

3

Member: Dilara86

26

The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe

by Andrew Wheatcroft

473 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: Billhere

27

La Tapisserie du temps présent

by Xavier Orville

3 members

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86

28

Why the Allies Won

by Richard Overy

997 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: Billhere

29

Dictionnaire commercial et financier. Français-Anglais-Russe

1 member

Member: Dilara86

30

Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Period)

75 members

5

Member: Dilara86

31

Bluff Your Way in Economics (The Bluffer's Guides)

29 members

2.8

Member: Dilara86

32

by Michael Ende

4,605 members

100 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Dilara86

33

Un village d'agriculteurs en Asie mineure il y a 8000 ans

by Pierre Crépon

5 members

3

Member: Dilara86

34

1,790 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: Billhere

35

Kalahari Bushmen (Threatened Cultures)

by Alan Barnard

16 members

3

Member: Dilara86

36

Histoire des civilisations - Tome II : des barbares à la renaissance

by Ugo Dèttore

1 member

2

Member: Dilara86

37

The Story of Zahra

by Hanan Al-Shaykh

259 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Dilara86

38

The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

411 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: Billhere

39

Riwan, ou, Le chemin de sable

19 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: Dilara86

40

The Book of Blam

by Aleksandar Tišma

178 members

4 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

41

Battleship: The Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse

by Martin Middlebrook

158 members

1 review

4

Member: Billhere

42

The War for the Union, Vol. 1: The Improvised War, 1861-1862

by Allan Nevins

263 members

1 review

4.2

Member: Billhere

43

Le Zéhéros n'est pas n'importe qui

by Williams Sassine

1 member

3

Member: Dilara86

44

The War for the Union, Vol. 3: The Organized War, 1863-1864

by Allan Nevins

220 members

1 review

4.1

Member: Billhere

45

by Tibor Cseres

19 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: Dilara86

46

Vacarme pour une lune morte

by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

1 member

2

Member: Dilara86

47

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom

by Peter Padfield

120 members

½ 4.3

Member: Billhere

48

La strega e il capitano

by Leonardo Sciascia

113 members

3 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

49

L'ombra di quel che eravamo

by Luis Sepúlveda

221 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

50

125 members

3.8

Member: Billhere

51

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 3: Retreat from Gettysburg

by Robert Underwood Johnson

311 members

1 review

4.1

Member: Billhere

52

Futuwah: Traité de chevalerie soufie

by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Sulamī

6 members

1 review

4

Member: Dilara86

53

Churchill's Generals

339 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: Billhere

54

The Tears of the Black Man

by Alain Mabanckou

43 members

2 reviews

2.9

Member: Dilara86

55

The Last Brother

by Nathacha Appanah

379 members

42 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

56

The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI

by Richard Guilliatt

221 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: Billhere

57

by Naguib Mahfouz

600 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

58

The Vietnam War 1956-1975

102 members

4

Member: Billhere

59

The Poor Christ of Bomba

145 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

60

by Max Hastings

961 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: Billhere

61

Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp

109 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

62

The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

by Holger H. Herwig

434 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: Billhere

63

Rien qu'une autre année. Anthologie poétique 1966-1982

by Mahmoud Darwich

4 members

4

Member: Dilara86

64

by Miguel Ángel Asturias

18 members

½ 3.3

Member: Dilara86

65

The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453

by Desmond Seward

956 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Billhere

66

by Saratchandra Chattopadhyaya

47 members

4.2

Member: Dilara86

67

Mots de cuisine : Tome 2 - Préparations et ingrédients

by Emmanuelle Maisonneuve

1 member

½ 2.5

Member: Dilara86

68

Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II

by David Downing

69 members

½ 3.3

Member: Billhere

69

Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

by David Fraser

628 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Billhere

70

Wellington: The Years of the Sword

by Elizabeth Longford

504 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: Billhere

71

Napoleon at War: Selected Writings of F. Loraine Petre

by F. Loraine Petre

18 members

4

Member: Billhere

72

The Civil War at Sea. Volume Two: The River War

by Virgil Carrington Jones

22 members

½ 4.5

Member: Billhere

73

The Civil War at Sea, Vol. 1: The Blockaders (January 1861 - March 1862)

by Virgil Carrington Jones

22 members

4

Member: Billhere

74

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932-1940

by William Manchester

2,266 members

22 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: Billhere

75

The Great War at sea: A history of naval action 1914-18

by A. A. Hoehling

46 members

2 reviews

3

Member: Billhere

76

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

by Alistair Horne

926 members

22 reviews

4.2

Member: Billhere

77

War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta

by James L. McDonough

54 members

3

Member: Billhere

78

April 1865: The Month That Saved America

1,878 members

25 reviews

4.2

Member: Billhere

79

Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders

by Virgil Carrington Jones

205 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Billhere

80

Normandy 1944 : Allied landings and breakout

by Stephen Badsey

203 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Billhere

81

D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

by Stephen E. Ambrose

4,058 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: Billhere

82

Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps In Normandy

by Michael Frank Reynolds

207 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: Billhere

83

The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe

653 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: Billhere

84

War in European History

by Michael Howard

428 members

2 reviews

4

Member: Billhere

85

Desert Storm Land Power : The Coalition and Iraqi Armies

46 members

3

Member: Billhere

86

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

by Stephen E. Ambrose

7,686 members

116 reviews

4.2

Member: Billhere

87

A History of Rome to A.D. 565

by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

202 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Billhere

88

The Antietam and Fredericksburg

by Francis Winthrop Palfrey

83 members

½ 3.7

Member: Billhere

89

King Charles II

by Antonia Fraser

879 members

9 reviews

4

Member: Billhere

90

Antietam National Battlefield Site, Maryland

by Frederick Tilberg

124 members

4

Member: Billhere

91

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

by A. J. Langguth

425 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Billhere

92

Competition for Empire, 1740–1763

by Walter L. Dorn

91 members

4

Member: Billhere

93

The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1905-1922

by Edmond Taylor

412 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: Billhere

94

by David Herbert Donald

3,392 members

28 reviews

4.2

Member: Billhere

95

The Path to Victory : The Mediterranean Theater in World War II

by Douglas Porch

265 members

1 review

3.8

Member: Billhere

96

Wellington and Napoleon: Clash of Arms 1807-1815

by Robin Neillands

121 members

1 review

3.2

Member: Billhere

97

Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War

by Correlli Barnett

135 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: Billhere

98

Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics

by Charles P. Roland

77 members

3.9

Member: Billhere

About This List

Started: Dilara86
March 2014
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

Related Lists

Holding the Zero

Current Discussions

None

Related Tags

Africa (504) American history (1,377) biography (3,252) Civil War (891) economics (775) Europe (584) European History (637) fantasy (487) fiction (1,356) France (468) globalization (766) history (9,409) medieval (446) medieval history (442) military (788) military history (1,539) Nigeria (583) non-fiction (4,243) politics (541) presidents (441) read (542) to-read (4,080) war (1,007) WWI (529) WWII (3,447)

Verdana Standard Verdana Small The Lorax System Standard System Large Georgia Large Text Atkinson