Books like Gates of Fire
12 books with a reading profile close to Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Paris
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Edward Rutherfurd’s narrative follows several families—the aristocratic de Cygnes, the rebellious Le Sourds, and the Jewish Rochens—across centuries of French history.
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2
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs McNeil
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
This book documents the rise and eventual dissolution of the American punk rock movement from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
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3
Small Sacrifices
by Ann Rule
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Ann Rule chronicles the 1983 shooting of the three children of Diane Downs on a rural Oregon road.
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300
by Frank Miller
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas leads three hundred Spartan warriors to the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae to block the invading Persian army commanded by the self-proclaimed god-king Xerxes.
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5
A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
In 1767, Mack McAsh is a young coal miner in a Scottish mining community where workers are legally bound to their employer for life.
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Eaters of the Dead
history, entertainment
Ahmad ibn Fadlan, a tenth-century Arab diplomat, is forced to accompany a group of Vikings on a journey to the northern lands.
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The Devil and the Dark Water
history, entertainment
Set in 1634, the narrative follows the Saardam, an East India Company merchant ship traveling from Batavia to Amsterdam.
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8
Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell
history, entertainment
Sarah Vowell tracks the site-specific histories of the three American presidents murdered before the Secret Service provided permanent protection: Abraham Lincoln, James A.
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9
Captain Alatriste
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
In seventeenth-century Madrid, Diego Alatriste lives as a sword for hire, sustaining himself on dangerous commissions while recovering from war wounds.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
On the eve of his marriage and promotion to captain, sailor Edmond Dantès is falsely accused of treason by three jealous rivals.
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The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
In 1937 Kiev, Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a quiet history student and single mother who finds her life upended by the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Lieutenant General Harold G.
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