8 must-read war books like An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I by Chris Dubbs

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An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I

By: Chris Dubbs

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that di…

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1. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By: Erik Larson

4.05

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

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2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

3. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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4. The Holiness of God

By: R.C. Sproul

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Central to God's character is the quality of holiness. Yet, even so, most people are hard-pressed t… read more

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5. Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him

By: Eric Blehm

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team Six, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary ope… read more

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6. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

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  • historical
  • war
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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7. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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  • historical
  • war
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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8. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, California, 193… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.50

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more

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  • historical
"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

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10. The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London, #1)

By: Mimi Matthews

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Victorian high society’s most daring equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight fo… read more

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  • historical
"Wonderful things didn’t happen because one was cautious. They happened because one dared."

-Mimi Matthews, The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London, #1)

"It’s not his responsibility to educate me. The ignorance is mine, and so must be the remedy for it."

-Mimi Matthews, The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London, #1)

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11. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
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12. An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle #9)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.39

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s The… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Christmas at The Grange (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #3.5) by T.E. Kinsey

13. Christmas at The Grange (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #3.5)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.15

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s Christmas 1909, and for once Lady Hardcastle—respectable gentlewoman, amateur spy—and her lady… read more

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  • historical
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14. The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn #1)

By: Jess Armstrong

3.56

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Arms… read more

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  • historical
"The only creatures in my whole dismal life who never once failed me were an overly fluffy black house cat and an eccentric Scottish bookseller."

-Jess Armstrong, The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn #1)

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15. Band of Sisters

By: Lauren Willig

4.07

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I i… read more

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  • world war i
  • historical
  • war
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16. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

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"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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17. Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.85

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But." Eightee… read more

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18. Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A True Story of Friendship, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War

By: Charles Glass

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon a… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • nonfiction
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19. Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See

By: Jennifer Marshall Bleakley

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Over 100,000 copies sold! “A touching tale.” ― Kirkus Reviews The heartwarming true story of a bl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History by Howell Raines

20. Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History

By: Howell Raines

3.59

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alaba… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I by Chris Dubbs

21. An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I

By: Chris Dubbs

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that di… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • photography
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • journalism

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Leigh Bardugo

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