The View from the Ground

7 best books like The View from the Ground (Martha Gellhorn): Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery, The Last of the Mohicans, A Visit to Don Otavio, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

Author

Leo Marks

In 1942, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Author

Mark Twain

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians...

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

Author

Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us."
--Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

Rule One for the neurologist in residence: "You ain't never the same when the air hits your brain." In this...

The Last of the Mohicans

Author	James Fenimore Cooper
ISBN	0553213296

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook...

A Visit to Don Otavio

Author

Sybille Bedford

Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she set out...

Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy

Author

Albert Marrin

On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames.  The factory was crowded.  The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside.  One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until...

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life

Author	Caroline Moorehead
ISBN	0805065539

The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary time
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international...