17 Top nonfiction books like Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot by Colin Freeman

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot

By: Colin Freeman

4.30

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission During …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot by Colin Freeman , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant

1. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

By: John Vaillant

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

By: Bill Bryson

3.24

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

By: David Roberts

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more

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Cover of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

4. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By: Loung Ung

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

5. End to End: John O'Groats, Broken Spokes and a Dog called Gretna

By: Alistair McGuinness

3.97

Format: None pages,

In 1996, Alistair McGuinness borrowed his brother's bike to join two friends in their attempt to cy… read more

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6. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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7. The Lion (The Golden Age #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ancient Greece, 5th century BC The age of myths and legends has given way to the world of men. I… read more

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Cover of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer

8. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert

By: Peter Faulding

3.59

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Wrong Way Round: How Not to Travel to Burma by Motorcycle

By: Andy Benfield

4.37

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

"A thrilling roller-coaster of a book! Gripping from start to finish." Joanna Lumley, British actr… read more

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12. Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

By: Brett Archibald

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." ―The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fif… read more

Similar categories in Brett Archibald's Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean book and Colin Freeman's Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot

  • nonfiction
Cover of When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster by Lucy Easthope

13. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

By: Lucy Easthope

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews by Sam McAlister

14. Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews

By: Sam McAlister

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking re… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness

By: Ken Smith

4.23

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed by Catrina Davies

16. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

By: Catrina Davies

4.23

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."

-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

Cover of Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War by Timothy  Phillips

17. Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War

By: Timothy Phillips

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police by Nicky Perfect

18. Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police

By: Nicky Perfect

4.06

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch dir… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken

19. Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry

By: Ben Aitken

3.46

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Food fights, fishing and French cooking - bestselling author Ben Aitken's year of actively pursuing… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot by Colin Freeman

20. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot

By: Colin Freeman

4.30

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission During … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino

21. Sonny Boy: A Memoir

By: Al Pacino

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Where do I go to get a director? I’ve never hired one in my life. I’ve only starred in three films. I said, “Marty, I don’t know how to interview anybody. This is completely crazy."

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"A strange and discordant mix of roles followed. I liked one film I did, The Humbling, because I did it with Barry Levinson. It was based on the novel by Philip Roth, who I met at a party in New York.…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"As I was heading back, I began to hear the sound of someone crying, which you sort of expect in a graveyard. I looked around to see where it was coming from. And there, sitting on a tombstone, was Fr…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"Another young actor in Charlie’s class with me was a guy by the name of Martin Sheen. In one session Marty did a monologue from The Iceman Cometh, and he blew the roof off—I said, this is it, this is…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

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3.79

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4.34

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Tim Marshall

4.20

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Tom Holland

4.22

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Christopher Clark

4.18

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