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8 best books like Family of Spies (Pete Earley): The Origins of Totalitarianism, Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Gettysburg, The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II

The Origins of Totalitarianism
AuthorHannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history

The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European...
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
AuthorPorter Fox
ISBN0393357090
America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America’s primary border for centuries—much of the early history of the United States took place there—and to the tens of millions who live and work...
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
AuthorBen Macintyre
ISBN0804136637
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
AuthorJulie Yip-Williams
ISBN0525511350
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a powerful exhortation to the living.

That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
AuthorSonia Purnell
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."

The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
AuthorTimothy Egan
ISBN0618969020
How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.

Edward Curtis was charismatic,...
Gettysburg
AuthorNewt Gingrich
ISBN0312987250
The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great "what if" of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable...
The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II
AuthorMark Obmascik
ISBN1451678398
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“Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history—and from our country’s most forbidding frontier. Deeply researched and feelingly told, The Storm on Our Shores is a heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption.” —Hampton...
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