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Ben McIntyre's Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zig-zag and Double Cross. I found them interesting and well written.
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11-03-2012, 08:50 AM | #17 |
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Sounds trite, but if you liked Escape from Camp 14, you should love Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life by Victor Herman. However, the latter is not an eBook, and a check of the Abu Dhabi National Library fails to find a copy.
Highly recommended and popular historical non-fiction authors who wrote when I was younger include sometimes collaborators Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. I only found one of their English books in my Abu Dhabi catalog search, but you might come across them almost anywhere. |
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There's a book I really liked called The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, written by a kid who made a wind generator out of scrap bits and odds and ends in Malawi, Africa, at the age of 14. It talks about his family, growing up, living through a horrible famine, and his ingenuity and perserverence in making this generator. It was really good.
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I highly recommend Jeff and Michael Shaara. Michael Shaara wrote The Killer Angels and excellent history of the battle of Gettysburg and his son, Jeff, wrote a great history of WW2. Technically the books are fiction but are very accurate and well written.
Similarly, I recommend the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. These focus on Victorian Britain and, although they are fiction as well, are very historically accurate and a real pleasure to read. |
11-04-2012, 08:39 AM | #22 |
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Anyone read The Saxon Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell? Yes, I know they're historical fiction books
Anyway, for those who have read it, is the series any good? |
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I like both. Right now the Saxon Series is shorter with only 6 books. The Sharpe Series has 24.
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Have you read anything by David McCullough? I just bought John Adams and 1776 and both got really good reviews. He has lots of books about famous historical figures and events.
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I read 1776 in Hardback and enjoyed it. I have John Adams on my TBR, but have not gotten to it yet.
Another good one is Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll. Apache |
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United States Destroyer Operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe
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McCullough is a great writer, though his books tend to be huge. Truly loved "Truman" and have "John Adams" on my history TBR pile.
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