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8 best books like Stalin (Robert Service): Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him, The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45, Bismarck: A Life, Escobar: The Inside Story Of Pablo Escobar, The World's Most Powerful Criminal, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
AuthorSheila Fitzpatrick
ISBN0195050010
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance...
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
AuthorPaul Mason
ISBN1846147387
From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society.

Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and...
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
AuthorMax Hastings
ISBN0062405667
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.

Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one...
Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
AuthorDonald Rayfield
ISBN0375757716
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and...
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45
AuthorIan Kershaw
ISBN1594203148
Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied....
Bismarck: A Life
AuthorJonathan Steinberg
ISBN0199782520
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's...
Escobar: The Inside Story Of Pablo Escobar, The World's Most Powerful Criminal
AuthorRoberto Escobar Gaviria
ISBN0340951095
Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in his charity; for the Colombian rich he was just...
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
AuthorBoris Johnson
ISBN1594633029
From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own.
 
On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth...
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