5 must-read soccer books like Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul by Kit Holden

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Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul

By: Kit Holden

4.54

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Beyond the booze and the what football really tells us about Germany, the UEFA Euro 2024 hosts––––…

If you liked the soccer plot in Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul by Kit Holden , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Tor!: The Story of German Football

By: Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

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2. The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan

By: Alan Booth

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth tra… read more

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3. Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys

By: Tom Chesshyre

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Tom Chesshyre has made it his mission to experience the world through train travel - on both epic a… read more

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4. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

Similar categories in James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany book and Kit Holden's Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul

  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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5. Surviving to Drive

By: Guenther Steiner

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"

-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive

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6. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
Cover of Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas by Mick Herron

7. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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8. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
"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 There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

10. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner

11. Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country

By: John Kampfner

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and entertaining exploration of the country that Britons love to hate by one of our m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

Cover of Building the Yellow Wall: The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund by Uli Hesse

14. Building the Yellow Wall: The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund

By: Uli Hesse

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 Towards the beginning of the twenty-first… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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15. The Cliff House

By: Chris Brookmyre

3.79

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Seven women. Seven sins. One night of judgment. Jen Dunne is forty-two and getting married for the … read more

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16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans by James Montague

17. 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
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
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18. The Kellerby Code

By: Jonny Sweet

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more

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19. How to be an Ex-Footballer

By: Peter Crouch

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The first truly insider guide to being a Premiership footballer, from Britain's funniest sporting i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar's Colombia by David  Arrowsmith

20. Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar's Colombia

By: David Arrowsmith

4.47

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Pablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power... football.Narcoball uncovers the… read more

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  • sports
  • history
Cover of No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman

21. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

By: Tim Shipman

4.03

Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition

The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting

22. 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

By: Ned Boulting

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of Va-Va-Voom: The Modern History of French Football by Tom             Williams

23. Va-Va-Voom: The Modern History of French Football

By: Tom Williams

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The players, the teams, the goals, the games, the scandals, the gloom and the glory: the story of F… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • football
Cover of Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul by Kit Holden

24. Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul

By: Kit Holden

4.54

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Beyond the booze and the what football really tells us about Germany, the UEFA Euro 2024 hosts––––… read more

Similar categories in Kit Holden's Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul book and Kit Holden's Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul

  • history
  • germany
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
Cover of Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper

25. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

By: Simon Kuper

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • football
Cover of Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

27. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 42 by Jonathan  Wilson

28. The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 42

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.67

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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  • football
Cover of The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 43 by Jonathan  Wilson

29. The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 43

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.67

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • football
Cover of The Summer of Total Football: The 1974 World Cup by Neil Jensen

30. The Summer of Total Football: The 1974 World Cup

By: Neil Jensen

4.25

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The Summer of Total The 1974 World Cup captures the mood of a memorable 24 days in the early 1970s… read more

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Cover of Salute: The Inside Story of England's Own Goal at Berlin's Olympiastadion by John Leonard

31. Salute: The Inside Story of England's Own Goal at Berlin's Olympiastadion

By: John Leonard

4.75

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

One sporting image stands out as the most divisive and controversial in English football the sight… read more

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James Hawes

3.72

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Guenther Steiner

4.17

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Katja Hoyer

4.17

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Michael Palin

4.17

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4.22

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