Is there a book you read about a historic event that was so passionate that it made the event exciting and intriguing? Something that stays true to the real events but portrays it in an epic way? Every historic book i’ve read so far has been just a retelling of events, i want something more exciting. I don’t care about era or theme or whatever.
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Every Nathaniel Philbrick book I’ve read has been gripping.
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky.
>Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages.
>Amid the chaos, screams, conflagration, and gunfire, 5-year-old Benson and 7-year-old Benjamin fled into the dark night. Two years later, Alepho, age 7, was forced to do the same. Across the Southern Sudan, over the next 5 years, thousands of other boys did likewise, joining this stream of child refugees that became known as the Lost Boys. Their journey would take them more than 1000 miles across a war-ravaged country, through landmine-sown paths, crocodile-infested waters, and grotesque extremes of hunger, thirst, and disease. The refugee camps they eventually filtered through offered little respite from the brutality they were fleeing.
>In They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky, Alepho, Benson, and Benjamin, by turn, recount their experiences along this unthinkable journey. They vividly recall the family, friends, and tribal world they left far behind them and their desperate efforts to keep track of one another. This is a captivating memoir of Sudan and a powerful portrait of war as seen through the eyes of children. And it is, in the end, an inspiring and unforgettable tribute to the tenacity of even the youngest human spirits.
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins will certainly not bore you, though exciting is perhaps not quite the right word.
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim Brady
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann- This is a compelling story about mysterious killings of Osage people after their allotted land struck oil.
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larsen- a wild story about a serial killer at the first World’s Fair in 1893 Chicago
Maybe try a book by Mark Bowden? I liked Guests of the Ayatollah about the Iran hostage crisis.
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford
Phillip Freeman’s “Alexander the Great” was awesome.