27 Best nonfiction books like Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals by Doug Melville

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Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals

By: Doug Melville

3.95

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr., a father …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals by Doug Melville , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

2. Fadeout (Dave Brandstetter, #1)

By: Joseph Hansen

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Fadeoutis the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter,… read more

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3. This Kind of War

By: T.R. Fehrenbach

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition… read more

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4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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5. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

By: Lena Andrews

4.00

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

6. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney

7. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • military fiction
Cover of Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi

9. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

By: Ibi Zoboi

4.09

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams by Adam    Lazarus

10. The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

By: Adam Lazarus

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American John Glenn, the unassail… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

12. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan  Page

13. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

By: Susan Page

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid

14. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont

15. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

By: Matthew F. Delmont

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

16. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cover of Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark    Harmon

17. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust

18. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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19. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

20. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

21. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

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Cover of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

22. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris

23. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

By: Michele Norris

4.62

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"

-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Cover of Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System by Ryan J. Reilly

24. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System

By: Ryan J. Reilly

3.95

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly politica… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America by Ryan Busse

25. Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America

By: Ryan Busse

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning by Peter J. Hotez

26. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning

By: Peter J. Hotez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Matthew J. Davenport

27. The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

By: Matthew J. Davenport

4.03

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

28. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

29. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals by Doug Melville

30. Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals

By: Doug Melville

3.95

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr., a father … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks by Charlamagne Tha God

31. Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks

By: Charlamagne Tha God

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Donald L. Miller

4.18

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4.45

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Antonia Hylton

4.27

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Uché Blackstock

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