Books like The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
12 books with a reading profile close to The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Shadow Divers
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · 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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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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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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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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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Erik Larson reconstructs the final 1915 voyage of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, tracking its path from New York toward the Irish coast during the early stages of World War I.
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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 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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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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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In 1933, William E.
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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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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
by Bill Bryson
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Bill Bryson traces the development of the English language from its obscure Germanic origins into a dominant global tongue.
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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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