21 must-read nonfiction books like 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans by James Montague

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1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans

By: James Montague

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can see us, but you don't know us. Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans by James Montague , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. My Turn: The Autobiography

By: Johan Cruyff

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his … read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
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2. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • 21st century
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

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3. The Fall of Yugoslavia

By: Misha Glenny

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

By: Tim Marshall

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Behind the Curtain

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate-Cover Edition for this ISBN can be found  From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo, wher… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • politics
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
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6. Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more

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7. The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

By: Louis Theroux

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

No, it doesn't get much weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Soccernomics

By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper

4.67

Format: 88 pages,

Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports

9. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography

By: Alex Ferguson

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in th… read more

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10. Among the Thugs

By: Bill Buford

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quanti… read more

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11. Jag är Zlatan: Zlatans egen berättelse

By: David Lagercrantz , Zlatan Ibrahimović

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile--no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of so… read more

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12. A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character . . . and Goals!

By: Tim Parks

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

After 20 years of living in Italy, Tim parks, whom Joseph Brodsky has called the best British autho… read more

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13. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

By: Michael Cox

3.88

Format: 496 pages,

An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more

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14. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

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15. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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16. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

By: Joshua Robinson

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

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17. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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18. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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19. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football

By: Michael Cox

4.37

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
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21. Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever

By: Rory Smith

3.84

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs … read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
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22. Scheisse! We're Going Up!

By: Kit Holden

4.42

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A CLUB ON THE RISE AND A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN. No footb… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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23. The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.07

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 17… read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
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24. Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

By: Nicholas Spencer

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right? Most things you ‘know’ about… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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25. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football by Tobias Jones

26. Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football

By: Tobias Jones

4.01

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Italy's ultras are the most organised and violent fans in European football. Many groups have evolv… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
Cover of 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans by James Montague

27. 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans

By: James Montague

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can see us, but you don't know us. Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, … read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • politics
  • crime
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • 21st century
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6) by Alan  Parks

28. To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)

By: Alan Parks

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of th… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady

29. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By: Martyn Rady

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unico grande amore: Un viaje por Italia a través del fútbol by Toni Padilla

30. Unico grande amore: Un viaje por Italia a través del fútbol

By: Toni Padilla

4.45

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Este viaje por Italia no pretende llegar lo antes posible. El guía es Toni Padilla, que, con un b… read more

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  • football
Cover of Gargoyle: Reporting from frontlines, jail cells, and trap houses by Jake Hanrahan

31. Gargoyle: Reporting from frontlines, jail cells, and trap houses

By: Jake Hanrahan

4.49

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Gargoyle is a compilation of written work by British journalist Jake Hanrahan, collecting his on-th… read more

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  • nonfiction

17 Best audiobook books like 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans by James Montague

Transform Your Habits

My Turn: The Autobiography

Johan Cruyff

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

Tim Marshall

4.03

The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

Louis Theroux

3.71

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5 Best football books like Unico grande amore: Un viaje por Italia a través del fútbol by Toni Padilla

Transform Your Habits

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Pep Guardiola: The Evolution

None , Martí Perarnau

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Unico grande amore: Un viaje por Italia a través del fútbol

Toni Padilla

4.45

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