5 best-selling history books like A Very Strange Way to Go to War: The Canberra in the Falklands by Andrew Vine

Cover of A Very Strange Way to Go to War: The Canberra in the Falklands by Andrew Vine

A Very Strange Way to Go to War: The Canberra in the Falklands

By: Andrew Vine

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She was the last icon of an age of leisurely travel fading into memory even as she embarked on her …

If you liked the history plot in A Very Strange Way to Go to War: The Canberra in the Falklands by Andrew Vine , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

1. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Cover of Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 by Max Hastings

2. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

By: Max Hastings

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operati… read more

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Cover of Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin

3. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II

By: Sean McMeekin

4.28

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian We remember World War I… read more

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Cover of Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960 by James D. Hornfischer

4. Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960

By: James D. Hornfischer

4.17

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A close-up, action-filled narrative about the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years … read more

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Cover of A Very Strange Way to Go to War: The Canberra in the Falklands by Andrew Vine

5. A Very Strange Way to Go to War: The Canberra in the Falklands

By: Andrew Vine

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She was the last icon of an age of leisurely travel fading into memory even as she embarked on her … read more

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28 Best history books like Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960 by James D. Hornfischer

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

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

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The Battle of Midway

Craig L. Symonds

3.50

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