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Books like The Guns of August
The best books like The Guns of August are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman is about world war i, military strategy, political miscalculation. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · Biography
Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.
A kindred history read.
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- The Path to Power
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Robert A. Caro · Biography
The first volume of Robert A.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson · History
James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, published in 1988, is the standard one-volume history of the Civil War era and won the Pulitzer Prize in the year of its publication.
Both dig into military strategy.
Read the summary → - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson · History
Dead Wake tells the story of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat torpedoed the British ocean liner off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, including 128 Americans.
Both dig into world war i.
Read the summary → - Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks · History
Thomas Ricks was the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post when he wrote Fiasco, and the book reflects years of direct access to the military officials, planners, and soldiers involved in the Iraq War.
Both dig into military strategy.
Read the summary → - Strategy: The Indirect Approach
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Strategy: The Indirect Approach
B. H. Liddell Hart · History
Strategy: The Indirect Approach, first published in 1929 and substantially revised and expanded through a definitive 1954 edition, is Basil Liddell Hart's argument that the most effective military strategies throughout history have been indirect — working around an opponent's strength rather than against it — and that direct confrontation, however courageous, tends to be costly and inconclusive.
Both dig into military strategy.
Read the summary → - The Anatomy of Fascism
- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum · History
Anne Applebaum opens Twilight of Democracy with a party she and her husband hosted on New Year's Eve 1999, celebrating the new millennium with a hundred friends and colleagues in Poland.
Both dig into nationalism.
Read the summary → - Why Don't We Learn from History?
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Why Don't We Learn from History?
B.H. Liddell Hart · History
Why Don't We Learn from History?
Both dig into military strategy.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
Both dig into nationalism.
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Books like The Guns of August: quick answers
What are the best books like The Guns of August?
The best books like The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Guns of August, such as world war i, military strategy, political miscalculation.
What should I read after The Guns of August?
A natural next read after The Guns of August is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro.
What books are similar to The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman?
The Guns of August centers on world war i, military strategy, political miscalculation. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
