Books like A Little History of the World
12 books with a reading profile close to A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich. Outward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
by Adam Makos
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In December 1943, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown flew a crippled B-17 bomber over Germany, its fuselage shredded and half its crew wounded.
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Flags of Our Fathers
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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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.
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Garrett M.
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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 Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Sam Kean organizes the history of the world through the chemical elements, moving beyond the sterile rows of the periodic table to reveal the human chaos behind scientific discovery.
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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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The Bookseller of Kabul
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.
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