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12 books with a reading profile close to A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Timothy Egan chronicles the environmental disaster of the 1930s Dust Bowl by following several families who remained in the High Plains rather than fleeing to California.
2

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

by Liza Mundy

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S.
3

Flags of Our Fathers

by James D. Bradley

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

James Bradley reconstructs the lives of the six men who raised the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
4

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

by Denise Kiernan

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

In the early 1940s, the United States government constructed Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a secret city carved out of rural farmland to house seventy thousand residents working on the Manhattan Project.
5

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

by Ross King

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

In 1418, the architects of Florence faced a structural crisis: the massive central opening of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral remained uncovered, as no known building method could support a dome of such scale withou…
6

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

by Timothy Egan

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan moved beyond the deep South to establish a stronghold in the American Midwest, specifically Indiana.
7

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

by Garrett M. Graff

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Garrett M.
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

by Hampton Sides

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Hampton Sides chronicles the 1945 raid on the Cabanatuan prisoner of war camp in the Philippines.
9

The Bookseller of Kabul

by Åsne Seierstad

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lived with the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul who risked imprisonment to preserve Afghan literature.
10

Thunderstruck

by Erik Larson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Erik Larson weaves together two seemingly unrelated narratives from the Edwardian era: the invention of long-distance wireless communication by Guglielmo Marconi and the pursuit of the mild-mannered murderer Hawley Harv…
11

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Erik Larson reconstructs the final 1915 voyage of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, tracking its path from New York toward the Irish coast during the early stages of World War I.
12

One Summer: America, 1927

by Bill Bryson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Bill Bryson chronicles the rapid cultural and technological shifts in American life during five months in 1927.

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