Books like Pompeii
12 books with a reading profile close to Pompeii by Robert Harris. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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Fatherland
Also outward-looking and escapist · history, thriller
Set in 1964, this history-divergent thriller imagines a world where Nazi Germany defeated the Soviet Union and maintains a tense Cold War with the United States.
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An Officer and a Spy
history, thriller
Set in late nineteenth-century Paris, this narrative reconstructs the Dreyfus Affair through the perspective of Georges Picquart, an ambitious military intelligence officer.
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The Paris Architect
Also escapist · history, thriller
In Nazi-occupied Paris, Lucien Bernard is an architect who maintains a public facade of neutrality to secure commissions from German officers.
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The Librarian Spy
history, thriller
Ava Harper, a librarian from the Library of Congress, travels to neutral Lisbon during World War II to gather intelligence through international newspapers and microfilmed documents.
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Eaters of the Dead
Also escapist · history, thriller
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 Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Also outward-looking · history, thriller
The narrative follows Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spent over a decade providing Soviet state secrets to MI6.
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Shadow Divers
Also outward-looking · history, thriller
In 1991, recreational divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler discovered an unidentified shipwreck sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey.
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Lieutenant General Harold G.
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The Huntress
by Kate Quinn
history, thriller
Set against the aftermath of World War II, the narrative follows Ian Graham, a former war correspondent turned Nazi hunter, and Nina Markova, a fierce Soviet pilot from the Night Witches regiment.
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The Eagle has Landed
Also outward-looking and escapist · history, thriller
In 1943, Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Steiner leads a small unit of German paratroopers on a mission to kidnap Winston Churchill from a remote Norfolk village.
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Code Name Hélène
by Ariel Lawhon
thriller, narrative
Code Name Hélène follows the real-life activities of Nancy Wake, an Australian expat living in France during the 1930s and 40s.
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