13 Best history books like Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939 by Frederick Lewis Allen

Cover of Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939 by Frederick Lewis Allen

Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Heralded by the New York Times as “a shrewd, concise, wonderfully written account of America in the…

If you liked the history plot in Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939 by Frederick Lewis Allen , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Naked and the Dead

By: Norman Mailer

3.95

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more

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  • american
"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

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2. Bomber

By: Len Deighton

4.19

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of a… read more

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  • historical
Cover of The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt by William L. Shirer

3. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

By: William L. Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written by Doris Kearns Goodwin

4. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.75

Format: 272 pages,

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vie… read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. The Fifties

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Fiftiesis a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Ha… read more

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7. Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

By: Dave Barry

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning … read more

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8. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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Cover of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild

9. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

Similar categories in Adam Hochschild's American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
Cover of Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter

10. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

By: Harold Schechter

3.76

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten … read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll

11. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

By: Ian W. Toll

4.76

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"

-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

Cover of The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist by Peter Tunstall

12. The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist

By: Peter Tunstall

4.45

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

“A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeat… read more

Similar categories in Peter Tunstall's The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. The War in the Shadows: The Battle of the Spymasters in WWII (The Secret War)

By: Charles Whiting

4.09

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling exposé of the spies who moved in the darkened dangerous back alleys of World War Two… read more

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Cover of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A.J. Baime

14. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

By: A.J. Baime

4.55

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Baime's The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"

-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

Cover of Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939 by Frederick Lewis Allen

15. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Heralded by the New York Times as “a shrewd, concise, wonderfully written account of America in the… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939 book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • americana
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1) by Jeremy Howard-Williams

16. Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1)

By: Jeremy Howard-Williams

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

An engrossing memoir of one RAF fighter pilot’s battle against the Luftwaffe in the dead of night.I… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Howard-Williams's Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1) book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

Cover of Five Days That Shocked the World : Eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II by Nicholas Best

17. Five Days That Shocked the World : Eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II

By: Nicholas Best

4.43

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A gripping account of the last days of World War II… It reads like a thriller, informs like a scho… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Best's Five Days That Shocked the World : Eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • history
Cover of 1939: The World We Left Behind by Robert Kee

18. 1939: The World We Left Behind

By: Robert Kee

4.07

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

History is based on choices, not truth. The way we see things now is not always how they looked at … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of 1945: The World We Fought For (The Second World War Book 2) by Robert Kee

19. 1945: The World We Fought For (The Second World War Book 2)

By: Robert Kee

4.25

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

1945, the year in which the Second World War ended, was also the year in which our modern world beg… read more

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Cover of The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War really ended by Nicholas Best

20. The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War really ended

By: Nicholas Best

4.33

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

‘This volume sets an example that will be hard to equal’ - Daily Mail On the eleventh hour of the e… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Best's The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War really ended book and Frederick Lewis Allen's Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

  • history
Cover of The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved (True Crime) by Shuler

21. The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved (True Crime)

By: Shuler

3.78

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

  For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

6 Best historical books like Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939 by Frederick Lewis Allen

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Bomber

Len Deighton

4.19

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The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

Harold Schechter

3.76

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14 Top history books like The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

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Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

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The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

4.13

Transform Your Habits

July 1914: Countdown to War

Sean McMeekin

3.68

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