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Books like The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The best books like The Making of the Atomic Bomb are American Prometheus, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is about nuclear science, world war ii, scientific discovery. 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.
- American Prometheus
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · Biography
Kai Bird and Martin J.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer · History
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is William Shirer's comprehensive account of Nazi Germany from the early career of Adolf Hitler through the defeat of the Reich in 1945.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - 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.
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- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman · Memoir
Surely You're Joking, Mr.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre · History
Eddie Chapman was a safecracker, con man, and professional criminal who became Britain's most remarkable double agent during World War II.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder · History
Bloodlands is Timothy Snyder's account of the territories between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union — principally Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states — where the two regimes' violence overlapped between 1933 and 1945.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Lost in Shangri-La
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Mitchell Zuckoff · History
Lost in Shangri-La tells the story of a 1945 military plane crash in the Baliem Valley of New Guinea — a hidden highland region so remote and unknown to the outside world that the press called it Shangri-La.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Natural Born Heroes
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Christopher McDougall · History
Natural Born Heroes is Christopher McDougall's follow-up to Born to Run, and it attempts something equally ambitious: to argue that heroism is a trainable physical and psychological skill, and that the human body contains natural capacities for endurance, power, and resilience that modern life has systematically atrophied.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
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Ben Macintyre · History
In 1943, British intelligence planted a dead man on a Spanish beach carrying fabricated documents designed to convince the Germans that the Allied invasion of southern Europe would target Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes · History
Richard Holmes is a British literary biographer best known for his two-volume life of Shelley, and The Age of Wonder brings that literary sensibility to the history of science during the Romantic period — roughly 1769 to 1832.
Both dig into scientific discovery.
Read the summary → - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson · History
Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile covers Winston Churchill's first year as British Prime Minister — from May 1940, when he replaced Neville Chamberlain three days after Germany's invasion of the Low Countries, through May 1941.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Chaos: Making a New Science
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James Gleick · Science
Chaos: Making a New Science, published in 1987, tells the story of how a loose network of scientists working across meteorology, mathematics, biology, and physics in the 1960s and 1970s developed chaos theory — the study of systems that are deterministic but unpredictable because tiny differences in initial conditions produce wildly different outcomes.
Both dig into scientific discovery.
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Books like The Making of the Atomic Bomb: quick answers
What are the best books like The Making of the Atomic Bomb?
The best books like The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes are American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman, Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Making of the Atomic Bomb, such as nuclear science, world war ii, scientific discovery.
What should I read after The Making of the Atomic Bomb?
A natural next read after The Making of the Atomic Bomb is American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman.
What books are similar to The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes?
The Making of the Atomic Bomb centers on nuclear science, world war ii, scientific discovery. Books with a similar feel include American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman, Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
