17 must-read history books like Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final by David A.F. Sweet

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Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final

By: David A.F. Sweet

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

One. Two. Three.  That’s as long as it took to sear the souls of a dozen young American men, thank…

If you liked the history plot in Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final by David A.F. Sweet , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

By: Lee Child

4.24

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops h… read more

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"I went to college. West Point is technically a college."

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

"I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. B…"

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

Cover of Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick

2. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

By: Peter Guralnick

4.16

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty

3. Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

By: Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Audio CD

During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson w… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of The Red Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle

4. The Red Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #2)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.54

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

In The Redheaded League, Holmes is engaged upon two seemingly unrelated cases, a daring bank robber… read more

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5. Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories (Harry Bosch, #16.1)

By: Michael Connelly

3.95

Format: None pages,

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in three never-before-collected stories.… read more

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6. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

By: Lawrence Wright

4.16

Format: 208 pages,

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7. One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"

By: Simon Reeve

3.95

Format: 145 pages,

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8. Don't Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench

By: Mark Titus

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation… read more

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9. The Breaks of the Game

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Hal… read more

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10. Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

From The Breaks of the Gameto Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a grea… read more

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Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

11. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan

12. Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

By: Cody Keenan

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s n… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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14. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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15. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

By: David Maraniss

4.02

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more

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  • politics
  • sports
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

4.74

Format: 869 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3) by Stephen        King

17. Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3)

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and … read more

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Cover of Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim  Brady

18. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart

19. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B. Stewart

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin

20. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By: Jeremy D. Popkin

4.21

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell

22. Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

4.41

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthral… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most politicians are more frustrated by the way their own party disappoints them than the way the other party opposes them. They expect opposition from the opposing party. That’s the way it’s suppose…"

-Lawrence O'Donnell, Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

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23. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife

By: Brad Balukjian

4.00

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with somethi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee

24. Maizy Chen's Last Chance

By: Lisa Yee

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more

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"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

25. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • basketball
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26. Buried Deep

By: Margot Hunt

3.28

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 2 hours and 38 minutes In this pulse-pounding short thriller, Maggie Cabot ref… read more

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Cover of Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman

27. Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Jeff Pearlman―the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus ―comes the rollickin… read more

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  • sports
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Real Season: A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone by Mike Shropshire

28. The Last Real Season: A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone

By: Mike Shropshire

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A rollicking and ribald first-person account of the 1975 Major League Baseball season—the last year… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Leave No Man Behind: The Untold Story of the Rangers' Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL Lone Survivor in Afghanistan by Tony      Brooks

29. Leave No Man Behind: The Untold Story of the Rangers' Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL Lone Survivor in Afghanistan

By: Tony Brooks

4.10

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

A story of courage, perseverance, and patriotism behind the 75th Ranger Regiment's rescue mission f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Game: An Autobiography by Grant Hill

30. Game: An Autobiography

By: Grant Hill

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The full, frank story of a remarkable life’s journey—to the pinnacle of success as a basketball pla… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final by David A.F. Sweet

31. Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final

By: David A.F. Sweet

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

One. Two. Three.  That’s as long as it took to sear the souls of a dozen young American men, thank… read more

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  • politics
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports

9 Best politics books like Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final by David A.F. Sweet

Transform Your Habits

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

Cody Keenan

4.56

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss

4.02

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Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years

David Litt

3.91

Transform Your Habits

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Cody Keenan

4.56

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The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

Ari Shapiro

4.05

Transform Your Habits

I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan

Katie Porter

4.23

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