Books like Shadow Divers
12 books with a reading profile close to Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · 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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The Huntress
by Kate Quinn
Also clear-cut · 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 Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Jonathan Harr chronicles the recovery of "The Taking of Christ," a Caravaggio masterpiece hidden in the dining room of a Jesuit residence in Dublin for decades.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1740, the British vessel HMS Wager departed on a secret mission to intercept a Spanish treasure galleon but wrecked against desolate rocks off the coast of Patagonia.
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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by Bill Browder
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
After the Russian government murdered his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, financier Bill Browder pivoted from investing to international activism.
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The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
Also clear-cut · history, thriller
In 1940, three women from vastly different social circles converge at Bletchley Park to join the secret British codebreaking operation.
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Tom Standage organizes human civilization into six distinct eras defined by a dominant beverage: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
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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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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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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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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
James L.
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