The Year of Decision 1846
5 best books like The Year of Decision 1846 (Bernard DeVoto): Agent Running in the Field, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World, Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid
Agent Running in the Field
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 1984878875 |
Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
| Author | Robert Leckie |
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of the Second World War. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
| Author | Andrew Miller |
One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...
| Author | Robert D. Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0399588213 |
As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about...
Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid
| Author | Martin Caidin |
On Thursday, October 14, 1943, two hundred and ninety one B-17 Flying Fortresses set out for a strategic bombing raid on the factories in Schweinfurt.
Sixty of those planes never returned and six hundred...