Books like A History of the World in 6 Glasses
12 books with a reading profile close to A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Robert M.
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Stephen E.
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1945, a transport plane nicknamed the Gremlin Special crashed into a remote valley in Dutch New Guinea, leaving only three survivors: WAC corporal Margaret Hastings, Sergeant Kenneth Decker, and Lieutenant John McCol…
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In October 1991, a rare meteorological convergence created a "meteorological bomb" off the coast of New England.
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Hampton Sides chronicles the 1945 raid on the Cabanatuan prisoner of war camp in the Philippines.
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Malcolm Gladwell examines the technological evolution and moral dilemmas of industrial warfare through the rivalry between General Haywood Hansell and General Curtis LeMay.
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 2012, Douglas Preston joined a team of scientists to locate Ciudad Blanca, a legendary civilization hidden within the Honduran rainforest.
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A Night to Remember
by Walter Lord
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Walter Lord recreates the final hours of the RMS Titanic through a chronological sequence of events beginning at 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912.
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Stephen Ambrose reconstructs the Allied invasion of France through hundreds of oral histories from the men who fought on the ground.
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
by Mark Bowden
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Mark Bowden reconstructs the October 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, where elite US Army Rangers and Delta Force operators attempted to capture two top lieutenants of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In the winter of 1820, a massive sperm whale repeatedly rammed and sank the whaleship Essex in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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Fermat's Enigma
by Simon Singh
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Simon Singh chronicles the three-century pursuit of a solution to Pierre de Fermat’s Last Theorem, a deceptively simple conjecture stating that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n…
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