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8 best books like Bomber (Len Deighton): The Cruel Sea, HMS Ulysses, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith, A Cruel Deception, Trustee from the Toolroom, The Kraken Wakes, The Last Enemy (Classics Of War), The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

The Cruel Sea
AuthorNicholas Monsarrat
ISBN1580800467
“[T]hat was the way the war was going; the individual had to retreat or submerge, the simple unfeeling pair of hands must come to the fore. The emphasis was now on the tireless machine of war; men were parts of this machine, and so they must remain, till they fulfilled their function or wore out. If, in...
HMS Ulysses
AuthorAlistair MacLean
ISBN0006135129
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a new cover style.The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes...
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
AuthorTimothy Egan
ISBN0735225230
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity,...
A Cruel Deception
AuthorCharles Todd
ISBN0062859862
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier from a mysterious killer.

The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies...
Trustee from the Toolroom
AuthorNevil Shute
ISBN1842323016
This was such a pleasure to read. It is a simple story about an uncomplicated man who is required to perform some difficult tasks. He has to step way beyond his comfort zone and in doing so discovers his own inner strengths. Even better, it becomes a bit of a fairy story as he discovers he has friends he never...
The Kraken Wakes
AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0140010750
I will probably always nod to Wyndham's Day of the Triffids as a crowning piece of SF, but The Kraken Wakes takes on a very similar tone, albeit very different problems.

The two both have a heavy focus on science and rationality in the face of unfathomable problems. Triffids had mass blindness...
The Last Enemy (Classics Of War)
AuthorRichard Hillary
ISBN1580800564
This short memoir by a RAF pilot, which I read in an attractive new edition from Vintage UK (not yet on Goodreads), with an intro by Sebastian Faulks (best read as an afterword), impressed me much more than I'd expected. Richard Hillary was a golden boy, educated at Oxford, well-to-do, dashing, handsome,...
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
AuthorAzra Raza
ISBN1541699521
With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience of When Breath Becomes Air, a world-class oncologist examines the current state of cancer and its devastating impact on the individuals it affects -- including herself.
We have lost the war on cancer....
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