Books like 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
12 books with a reading profile close to 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Cornelius Ryan reconstructs the D-Day invasion by weaving together hundreds of individual accounts from Allied and German soldiers, as well as French civilians.
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1879, Lieutenant George De Long led the USS Jeannette toward the North Pole, fueled by the incorrect scientific theory of an Open Polar Sea.
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Lieutenant General Harold G.
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Kon-Tiki
Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative
Thor Heyerdahl documents his 1947 expedition to prove that ancient South Americans could have settled Polynesia.
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Battle Ready
by Tom Clancy, Tony Zinni
Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative
Battle Ready traces the four-decade military career of General Tony Zinni, focusing on his leadership of U.S.
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative
General George S.
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The Atomic City Girls
by Janet Beard
Also practical and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1943, the Army transforms Oak Ridge, Tennessee, into a secret city of thousands of workers building the weapon that will end the war, though almost none of them know what they are making.
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The Boys from Biloxi
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative
The story follows two childhood friends, Keith Rudy and Hughie Malco, whose families represent the internal struggle of Biloxi, Mississippi, during the mid-twentieth century.
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
by Nellie Bly
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1887, journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to secure a commitment to the Women’s Medical College on Blackwell’s Island.
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Rage
by Bob Woodward
Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative
Rage documents Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and national security threats through eighteen exclusive interviews between the president and Bob Woodward.
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The Johnstown Flood
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
The book reconstructs the 1889 disaster in Pennsylvania, where the South Fork Dam collapsed after days of heavy rain.
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative
This historical narrative recounts the final days of the American Civil War, focusing on the parallel timelines of President Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
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