5 best-selling nonfiction books like The Alamo by Frank T. Thompson

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The Alamo

By: Frank T. Thompson

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Although The Alamo fell in the early morning of March 6, 1836, the death of the Alamo defenders has…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Alamo by Frank T. Thompson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

Similar categories in Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war
"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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2. Ball Four

By: Jim Bouton

4.05

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.When first p… read more

Similar categories in Jim Bouton's Ball Four book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

  • history
  • nonfiction
"It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it."

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

"The older they get, the better they get when they were younger"

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

"High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game."

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

"I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while."

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

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3. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

Similar categories in Unknown's Beowulf book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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4. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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5. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

Similar categories in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

  • historical
Cover of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

6. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

Similar categories in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

7. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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8. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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9. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

Similar categories in S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

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10. The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)

By: Jack Carr

4.28

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the Ame… read more

Similar categories in Jack Carr's The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1) book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

  • war
"Revisionist views of the Constitution by opportunistic politicians and unelected judges with agendas that reinterpret the Bill of Rights to take power away from the people and consolidate it at the f…"

-Jack Carr, The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)

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11. The Boys from Biloxi

By: John Grisham

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's The Boys from Biloxi book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

"The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard."

-John Grisham, The Boys from Biloxi

"Great trial lawyers aren't born; they're made. The great ones simply tell the jury a story..."

-John Grisham, The Boys from Biloxi

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12. Three Women

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.72

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Taddeo's Three Women book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

  • nonfiction
"Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sendi…"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

Cover of Hawke's Target (Sonny Hawke Thriller #3) by Reavis Z. Wortham

13. Hawke's Target (Sonny Hawke Thriller #3)

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

4.26

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

“There’s a term we use in the west,  the genuine article , and those words fit Reavis Wortham to a … read more

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Cover of The Alamo by Frank T. Thompson

14. The Alamo

By: Frank T. Thompson

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Although The Alamo fell in the early morning of March 6, 1836, the death of the Alamo defenders has… read more

Similar categories in Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo book and Frank T. Thompson's The Alamo

  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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3.29

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