Books like Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
12 books with a reading profile close to Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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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.
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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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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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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett entered the Amazon jungle to locate a hidden civilization he named "Z," believing it to be the birthplace of complex South American culture.
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In this historical account, Nathaniel Philbrick examines the fifty-year period beginning with the 1620 arrival of the Pilgrims and culminating in the devastation of King Philip’s War.
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Victoria Finlay tracks the physical origins of artistic pigments by traveling to the remote geographical sources of the rainbow.
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Daniel James Brown reconstructs the 1846 Donner Party disaster through the specific experiences of Sarah Graves, a twenty-one-year-old newlywed traveling west from Illinois.
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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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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Sharon McMahon, a former high school government teacher, profiles twelve lesser-known Americans whose choices, often made quietly, changed the country, from the founding era through the civil rights movement.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Thomas Cahill argues that during the fifth century, as Germanic tribes dismantled the Roman Empire and burned its libraries, the classical tradition survived only on the remote island of Ireland.
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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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