18 Best nonfiction books like Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II by Catherine Musemeche

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Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

By: Catherine Musemeche

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads li…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II by Catherine Musemeche , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew

1. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

By: Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and ad… read more

Similar categories in Sherry Sontag's Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Fuck you, God. Nothing gets through HY-80"

-Sherry Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

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2. Carpentaria

By: Alexis Wright

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous awa… read more

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

3. 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 Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger

4. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

By: Buzz Bissinger

3.81

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

5. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

Similar categories in Hampton Sides's The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin

6. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

Similar categories in Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle

8. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep

9. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

Similar categories in Steve Inskeep's Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

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10. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of… read more

Similar categories in Eric Jay Dolin's Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne

11. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales

12. The Brilliant Abyss

By: Helen Scales

4.04

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more

Similar categories in Helen Scales's The Brilliant Abyss book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

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13. The Lost Dresses of Italy

By: M.A. McLaughlin

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this rich, atmospheric historical novel, perfect for fans of Brenda Janowitz and Adriana Trigian… read more

Similar categories in M.A. McLaughlin's The Lost Dresses of Italy book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

14. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.65

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more

Similar categories in Craig L. Symonds's Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron

15. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By: Briony Cameron

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more

Similar categories in Briony Cameron's The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • historical
Cover of The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman

16. The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World

By: Arthur Herman

3.66

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

“An absorbing and humane account . . . Mr. Herman is at pains to remind us that the Viking world wa… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance by Thomas B. Buell

17. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

By: Thomas B. Buell

4.47

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance. Spruance, v… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II by Catherine Musemeche

18. Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

By: Catherine Musemeche

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads li… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II book and Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back by Shannon McKenna Schmidt

19. The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back

By: Shannon McKenna Schmidt

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt's unprecedented and courageous trip to t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents by Robert Schmuhl

20. Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents

By: Robert Schmuhl

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Winston Churchill’s frequent stays at the White House inform this illuminating account of America a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa

21. The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

By: Kate Kitagawa

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, span… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

16 must-read audiobook books like Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II by Catherine Musemeche

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4.23

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

Adam Hochschild

4.21

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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

Buzz Bissinger

3.81

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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3.79

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

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4.51

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Erik Larson

4.24

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4.54

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