6 best-selling history books like Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles by Peter Grose

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Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

By: Peter Grose

3.60

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Peter Grose's book is an authoritative account of one of the most intriguing figures in recent Amer…

If you liked the history plot in Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles by Peter Grose , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

By: Erik Larson

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more

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2. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowi… read more

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3. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By: Erik Larson

4.30

Format: 546 pages, ebook

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz book and Peter Grose's Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

Similar categories in Brad Meltzer's The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill book and Peter Grose's Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

  • espionage
  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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6. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

By: Kevin Maurer

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day ―comes t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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8. Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

By: Peter Grose

3.60

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Peter Grose's book is an authoritative account of one of the most intriguing figures in recent Amer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Grose's Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles book and Peter Grose's Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

  • espionage
  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • government

6 Best nonfiction books like Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles by Peter Grose

Transform Your Habits

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson

4.30

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The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

Brad Meltzer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

Kevin Maurer

4.34

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21 Top audiobook books like We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

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

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

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