This Republic of Suffering
2008★ 5.3
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Lawrence in Arabia
2013★ 5.7
A Bright Shining Lie
1988★ 5.7
The Armada
1959★ 5.8
History of the Conquest of Mexico
1843★ 5.8
The Conquest of the Incas
1970★ 5.9
Dispatches
1977★ 6.0
Goodbye, Darkness
1980★ 6.3
The Thirty Years War
1938★ 6.4
The Guns of August
1962★ 6.4
The Great Game
1990★ 6.4
A Stillness at Appomattox
1953★ 6.5
The Sleepwalkers
2012★ 6.7
With the Old Breed
1981★ 6.8
The Face of Battle
1976★ 6.9
A History of the Crusades
1951★ 6.9
The Persian Expedition (Anabasis)
370 BC★ 7.0
The Gallic War
50 BC★ 7.1
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1922★ 7.2
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
1885★ 7.3