Hi everyone! I am trying to find a book my dad might like as a father's day gift. He particularly likes to read about sports history (bonus points if it's hockey though he enjoys reading about other sports too), historical fiction (especially mob thrillers), and historical nonfiction (especially american history and the world wars). Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions 🙂 thanks
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*Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway* by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully.
*With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa* by E.B. Sledge, CPL, 1st Mar. Div., U.S.M.C.
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is a fantastic read about the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
Shelby Foote’s Stars in Their Courses is a great read. It’s his account of the Gettysburg campaign, pulled from his three-volume history of the Civil War, published as a standalone. It’s kind of interesting to read this time of year, given when Gettysburg took place.
“Moneyball”, by Michael Lewis
“The Guns of August”, by Barbara Tuchman
“Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945”, by Max Hastings
The Terror by Dan Simmons.
You’re welcome OP’s dad.
Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand;
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry-my dad thanked me after reading this when I gave it to him
https://www.amazon.com/Magnolia-Majors-Memoirs-history-Seattle/dp/B0991DBX51 Magnolia to the Majors: Memoirs of a native son who helped write the history of Seattle sports: Knight, Bill Gerard: 9798595997010: Amazon.com: Books
Anything by David McCullough; however I suggest *The Path Between the Seas*
WW II: *The Man Who Never Was*
Non-Fic: *Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly*
Anything and everything by Davd Halberstam – amazing sports histories, and his epic *The Fifties* has lived in my brain since college (as in, like, decades)
*Undaunted Courage* by Stephen Ambrose about Lewis & Clark
*The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt* by Jeff Shaara
*Destiny of the Republic* by Candice Millard about the assassination of President Garfield
The Last Best League
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Lady of the Army: The Life of Mrs. George S. Patton
“A masterpiece of seminal research, Lady of the Army is an extraordinary, detailed, and unique biography of a remarkable woman married to a now legendary American military leader in both World War I and World War II.”