15 best-selling nonfiction books like Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship by Tom Clancy, John D. Gresham

Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship

By: Tom Clancy , John D. Gresham

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Only the author of The Hunt for Red Octobercould capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear subma…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship by Tom Clancy, John D. Gresham , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew

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

By: Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and ad… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Fuck you, God. Nothing gets through HY-80"

-Sherry Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Cover of The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter

2. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

By: Robert M. Edsel , Bret Witter

3.80

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were method… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
"The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation."

-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

"Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality."

-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

"But he had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price."

-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

"I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money."

-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

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3. Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

By: Eugene B. Fluckey

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew memb… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction
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4. Night over Water

By: Ken Follett

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious air… read more

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  • war
Cover of Semper Fi (The Corps, #1) by W.E.B. Griffin

5. Semper Fi (The Corps, #1)

By: W.E.B. Griffin

3.98

Format: 392 pages,

Semper Fi (The Corps, Book 1) From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of d… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
Cover of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki, Huston Smith, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker

6. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

7. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War by W. Craig Reed

8. Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War

By: W. Craig Reed

4.62

Format: None pages,

"Red Novemberdelivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep th… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Swiss Family Robinson by Arthur Pober, Johann David Wyss, Scott McKowen

9. The Swiss Family Robinson

By: Arthur Pober , Johann David Wyss , Scott McKowen

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, fi… read more

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"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."

-Arthur Pober, The Swiss Family Robinson

Cover of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll

10. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

By: Ian W. Toll

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnip… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction

11. Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship

By: Tom Clancy , John D. Gresham

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Only the author of The Hunt for Red Octobercould capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear subma… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of Tiger's Claw (Patrick McLanahan, #18) by Dale Brown

12. Tiger's Claw (Patrick McLanahan, #18)

By: Dale Brown

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The fight for the Pacific begins When China increases its naval presence in the Pacific and develop… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war

13. Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void

By: Tim Lebbon

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

On the planet Tython, the ancient Je'daii order was founded. And at the feet of its wise Masters, L… read more

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14. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

15. First Contact

By: Ronald D. Moore , Brannon Braga , J.M. Dillard

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the deepest, darkest reaches of space came the greatest threat the Federation had ever faced: … read more

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16. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

By: Blake J. Harris

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Following the success of The Accidental Billionairesand Moneyballcomes Console Wars--a mesmerizing,… read more

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17. The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)

By: Robert Ludlum

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason Bourne Reenter the s… read more

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18. Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)

By: Lee Child

3.60

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Jack Reacher, ex-military policeman relaxed in Key West until Costello turned up dead. The amiable … read more

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19. Trump: The Art of the Deal

By: Donald J. Trump , Tony Schwartz

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Trump reveals the business secrets that have made him America's foremost deal maker! "I like thinki… read more

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20. Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him

By: Eric Blehm

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team Six, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary ope… read more

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21. Revan (Star Wars: The Old Republic, #1)

By: Drew Karpyshyn

3.43

Format: 240 pages,

There's something out there: a juggernaut of evil bearing down to crush the Republica, unless one l… read more

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22. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

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23. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

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24. Contact

By: Carl Sagan

4.15

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more

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"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

Cover of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

25. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Cover of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray

26. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

By: Douglas Murray

4.21

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. The Old Lion

By: Jeff Shaara

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion a brilliant novel tracing the life… read more

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Cover of Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll

28. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

By: Ian W. Toll

4.59

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction
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29. The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston

3.76

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Lars… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"But we were just picnicking friends"

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

"We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind."

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

"You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion."

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

"You can not stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion."

-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

Cover of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

30. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

By: Christian Brose

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

Cover of The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson

31. The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

By: Steve Olson

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph—and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war

13 Top history books like Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship by Tom Clancy, John D. Gresham

Transform Your Habits

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

Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

Robert M. Edsel , Bret Witter

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

Eugene B. Fluckey

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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