Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage

6 best books like Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage (Douglas C. Waller): Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, Bismarck: A Life, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

Author

Bill O'Reilly

Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus—riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O’Reilly, anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling...

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

Author	David McCullough
ISBN	1501168681

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Author	Michael Korda
ISBN	0061712612

T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) first won fame for his writings and his participation in the British-sponsored Arab Revolt of WWI, but the adventurer known even in his day as "Lawrence of Arabia" is remembered today mostly as the subject of the 1962 film masterpiece based on his life. This splendid page-turner...

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

Author	Vince Beiser
ISBN	0399576428

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer...

Bismarck: A Life

Author	Jonathan Steinberg
ISBN	0199782520

This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's...

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Author

Matt Richtel

A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...