9 Top politics books like As it Happened by Clement Attlee

Cover of As it Happened by Clement Attlee

As it Happened

By: Clement Attlee

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

"An honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served his country well at the t…

If you liked the politics plot in As it Happened by Clement Attlee , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics by Jonathan  Wilson

1. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Cover of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

2. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel

3. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

Cover of Bill Shankly: It's Much More Important Than That: The Biography by Stephen F. Kelly

4. Bill Shankly: It's Much More Important Than That: The Biography

By: Stephen F. Kelly

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

'Football is not just a matter of life and death: it's much more important than that' - Bill Shankl… read more

Similar categories in Stephen F. Kelly's Bill Shankly: It's Much More Important Than That: The Biography book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • nonfiction
  • biography

5. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Parris's Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1) book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

6. Plan for Chaos

By: John Wyndham , Andy Sawyer , David Ketterer

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Plan for Chaosis a never-before published novel by post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer … read more

Similar categories in John Wyndham's Plan for Chaos book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

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

7. 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

Similar categories in William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

8. William Pitt the Younger

By: William Hague

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Sunday Times bestselling biography of one of the towering figures in British history who became… read more

Similar categories in William Hague's William Pitt the Younger book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

9. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Sansom's Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

Cover of Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood

10. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Old Babes in the Wood: Stories book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Cover of George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley

11. George V: Never a Dull Moment

By: Jane Ridley

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively… read more

Similar categories in Jane Ridley's George V: Never a Dull Moment book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare

12. Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

Format: 839 pages, Kindle Edition

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biograp… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Shakespeare's Ian Fleming: The Complete Man book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

13. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Cover of How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien

14. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of The Magician by Colm Tóibín

15. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's The Magician book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

Cover of The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream by Charles     Spencer

16. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) by Pat Barker

17. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

By: Pat Barker

3.90

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more

Similar categories in Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

Cover of Cuddy by Benjamin Myers

18. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

Cover of Operation Afrika: A ruthless battle for victory in the desert (Destroyers WWII Thriller Series Book 1) by Charles Whiting

19. Operation Afrika: A ruthless battle for victory in the desert (Destroyers WWII Thriller Series Book 1)

By: Charles Whiting

4.04

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a thrilling World War Two military adventure series you won’t want to miss! Perfe… read more

Similar categories in Charles Whiting's Operation Afrika: A ruthless battle for victory in the desert (Destroyers WWII Thriller Series Book 1) book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • history
Cover of Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7) by S.J. Parris

20. Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)

By: S.J. Parris

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

Prague, 1588 A COURT IN TURMOIL The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundari… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Parris's Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7) book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

Cover of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman

21. Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

By: Isabel Hardman

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A newer edition of this book can be found here. Politicians are consistently voted the least trust… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Hardman's Why We Get the Wrong Politicians book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby

22. Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.35

Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Nothing But The Truth by The Secret Barrister

23. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Nothing But The Truth book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England by Richard Beard

24. Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England

By: Richard Beard

3.58

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Dav… read more

Similar categories in Richard Beard's Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2) by Pat Barker

25. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)

By: Pat Barker

3.83

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more

Similar categories in Pat Barker's The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2) book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."

-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)

"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"

-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)

"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"

-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)

Cover of The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough

26. The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939

By: Frank McDonough

4.48

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From historian Frank McDonough, the first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler… read more

Similar categories in Frank McDonough's The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939 book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry by Nathan Filer

27. This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry

By: Nathan Filer

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, originally published as The Heartland: Finding… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Filer's This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War by Alan Warwick Palmer

28. The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War

By: Alan Warwick Palmer

3.86

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

In this classic account of the Crimean War, Alan Palmer puts the myths and realities of The Charge … read more

Similar categories in Alan Warwick Palmer's The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of As it Happened by Clement Attlee

29. As it Happened

By: Clement Attlee

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

"An honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served his country well at the t… read more

Similar categories in Clement Attlee's As it Happened book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of A Brief History of Cyprus by Tommy    Clark

30. A Brief History of Cyprus

By: Tommy Clark

3.82

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

An overview of Cypriot history from the powerful empires that first inhabited the island to the 20t… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Clark's A Brief History of Cyprus book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • history
"Hopefully, one day, the peaceful messages on the walls of Nicosia will drown out the aggressive ones, and Greek and Turkish Cypriot old friends will live together in harmony once again."

-Tommy Clark, A Brief History of Cyprus

Cover of Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace by Leo McKinstry

31. Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

By: Leo McKinstry

4.43

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party leaders, but there has… read more

Similar categories in Leo McKinstry's Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace book and Clement Attlee's As it Happened

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

16 must-read history books like As it Happened by Clement Attlee

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Simon Winchester

2.67

Transform Your Habits

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

William L. Shirer

4.21

Transform Your Habits

George V: Never a Dull Moment

Jane Ridley

4.23

View all the books

16 Best audiobook books like Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.