Books like A Distant Mountain

#1

American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird

Themes: Historical

#2

Forever Island

Patrick D. Smith

Themes: Historical

#3

An Ordinary Man The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

Richard Norton Smith

Themes: Historical

#4

Serving with Honor Under a Cloak of Silence

Lorenzo L. McFarland

Themes: Historical

#5

The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill

Themes: Historical

#6

Jack Hinson’s One-man War

Tom Chase McKenney

Themes: Historical

#7

Titanic’s Unlucky Seven The Story of the Ill-Fated Liner’s Officers

James W. Bancroft

Themes: Historical

#8

Priest of Nature The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton

Rob Iliffe

Themes: Historical

#9

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

John Muir

Themes: Historical

#10

Nuggets to Neutrinos The Homestake Story

Steven T. Mitchell

Themes: Historical

#11

Samuel Johnson A Biography

Peter Martin

Themes: Historical

#12

Churchill Goes to War Winston’s Wartime Journeys

Brian Lavery

Themes: Historical

#13

Saving Bravo The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History

Stephan Talty

Themes: Historical

#14

Off with Her Head Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Eleanor Herman

Themes: Historical

#15

The Narrative of Hosea Hudson The Life and Times of a Black Radical

Hosea Hudson

Themes: Historical

#16

Great Physicists The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

William H. Cropper

Themes: Historical

#17

Gun Barons The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

John Bainbridge

Themes: Historical

#18

The Story Of The Hoover Dam, V1-3 Compressed Air Magazine, May, 1931 To March, 1933

Ingersoll-Rand Company

Themes: Historical

#19

Everything Beautiful in Its Time Seasons of Love and Loss

Jenna Bush Hager

Themes: Historical

#20

Three Days at the Brink FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II

Bret Baier

Themes: Historical

#21

For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War

James M. McPherson

Themes: Historical

#22

Franklin and Washington The Founding Partnership

Edward J. Larson

Themes: Historical

#23

The Lost Boys of Montauk The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Themes: Historical

#24

Unthinkable Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Jamin B. Raskin

Themes: Historical