19 must-read history books like Donovan: America's Master Spy by Richard Dunlop

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Donovan: America's Master Spy

By: Richard Dunlop

4.30

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA.One of the most celebrated…

If you liked the history plot in Donovan: America's Master Spy by Richard Dunlop , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

1. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock

2. Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

By: Pope Brock

1.00

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkle… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers by Ernest R. May, Richard E. Neustadt

3. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers

By: Ernest R. May , Richard E. Neustadt

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two noted professors offer easily remembered rules for using history effectively in day-to-day mana… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
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4. Propaganda

By: Edward L. Bernays

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) by Martin Cruz Smith

5. Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fin… read more

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  • espionage

6. Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp, #11)

By: Vince Flynn

4.00

Format: 96 pages,

Now, with Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protegee Mik… read more

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7. Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

By: Jack Devine , None

3.44

Format: 216 pages, ebook

"A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to th… read more

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8. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

By: Günter K. Koschorrek

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more

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9. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

By: H.W. Brands

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twe… read more

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10. A Man Called Intrepid

By: William Stevenson

4.28

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A true story of WW2 espionage. NBC News calls it, "A historical document of major significance." Th… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"The most tragic thing about he war was not that it made so many dead men, but that it destroyed the tragedy of death," wrote the American poet John Peale Bishop. "Not only did the young suffer in the…"

-William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid

11. Summer of '49

By: David Halberstam

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns … read more

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12. The Battle of Britain

By: James Holland

3.95

Format: None pages,

'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer o… read more

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13. The Right Stuff

By: Tom Wolfe

4.08

Format: 432 pages,

Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more

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14. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton

15. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

17. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

By: Ronen Bergman

4.40

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

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18. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

Similar categories in Stuart A. Reid's The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's Agent 355 book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • espionage
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer

20. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • 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

Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

21. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

22. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

Similar categories in Beverly Gage's G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Bluebeard

By: Jim Clemente

3.76

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLER In 1919, Kathryn Wombache… read more

Similar categories in Jim Clemente's Bluebeard book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • audiobook
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24. The Ark

By: Christopher Coates

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Technology has developed to the point where a person can be placed in a Sleep State: a cross betwee… read more

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25. Rage

By: Bob Woodward

4.17

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more

Similar categories in Bob Woodward's Rage book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

Cover of Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado

26. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

By: Ric Prado

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Explosive National Bestseller A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil … read more

Similar categories in Ric Prado's Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Princess Spy by Larry Loftis

27. The Princess Spy

By: Larry Loftis

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she woul… read more

Similar categories in Larry Loftis's The Princess Spy book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy by Michael G. Vickers

28. By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy

By: Michael G. Vickers

4.17

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Vickers's By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Playing to Win

By: Michael Lewis

4.08

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

When New York Times best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis got involved in his kids’ loca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Donovan: America's Master Spy by Richard Dunlop

30. Donovan: America's Master Spy

By: Richard Dunlop

4.30

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA.One of the most celebrated… read more

Similar categories in Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy book and Richard Dunlop's Donovan: America's Master Spy

  • espionage
  • world war i
  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations by Patrick K. O'Donnell

31. The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.16

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Indispensables , the unknown and dramatic story of irregular gue… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction

16 Top audiobook books like Donovan: America's Master Spy by Richard Dunlop

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Ronen Bergman

4.40

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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