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What are some good historical nonfiction books?

Sami #recommend #history #nonfiction

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Tracy

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

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Diane

Boys in the Boat
Unbroken
Dead Wake: the Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Wright Brothers
Hidden Figures

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Carrie

I really loved The Boys in the Boat, and Unbroken too

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Cheryl

I second The Wright Brothers. The Great Bridge is one of my all time favorites.

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Howard

Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster

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Lisa

Devil In The White City, Seabiscuit

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Charles

Howard Zinn a people’s history of the US

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Catherine

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Catherine

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Angelina

Endgame 1945. It’s massive but it actually reads almost like a novel….!

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Betty

Destiny of the Republic, in the Garden of Beasts

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Valerie

Unbroken

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Judi

Anything by Erik Larson.

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Kim

Night by Elie Wiesel, Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan, Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, Unloved by Peter Roche.

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Suzanne

The $80 champion

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Robin

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Anne

https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Hamilton-Ron-Chernow-ebook/dp/B000QJLQZI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1535502415&sr=8-2&keywords=hamilton+book

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Cori

The sun does shine

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Adelaide

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, and Jerusalem: A Biography

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Anne

https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Franklin-American-Walter-Isaacson-ebook/dp/B000FBJG4U/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1535502493&sr=1-1&keywords=benjamin+franklin

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Anne

https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World-ebook/dp/B005XQ973M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535502582&sr=8-1&keywords=rape+of+nanking

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Tina

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9889561

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Tina

Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family’s Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540936

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Gwenn

Irena’s Children, about Irena Sendler smuggling Jewish Children out of the Warsaw ghetto

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Carrie

Loved it!

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Katie

Four came home

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Joyce

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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Crystal

Do you like a certain era?

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SamiQuestion author

No, i have been in this kick about history in general. No specific era.

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Eileen

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier.

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EM

It’s historical fiction, but is actually amazingly accurate. The author has a PhD in history. @Rob: My Australian Adventure

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Ryan

Well first read Mein Kampf and then life and death in the third reich.

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Rahmoon

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