Fast-Paced Nonfiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Nonfiction
• Fast pace
• Conversational style

1776
By David McCullough
973.3 MCC
This award-winning book draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that covers the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative.

The Greatest Generation
By Tom Brokaw
940.5481 BRO
Tom Brokaw defines "the greatest generation" as American citizens who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. After almost 15 years and hundreds of letters and interviews, Brokaw wrote The Greatest Generation, a representative cross-section of the stories he came across. This is history made personal by a cast of everyday people transformed by extraordinary circumstances.

History’s Great Untold Stories
By Joseph Cummins
909 CUM
This volume combines vivid first-hand accounts of pivotal events in history with authoritative commentary. History's Great Untold Stories will be welcomed by readers who are eager to uncover "history's mysteries" and explore lesser known, non-Western views of world events.>

The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
By Robert Noah
F NOAH
A fictionalized but accurate account of the successful 1911 plot to steal Da Vinci's famous painting from the Louvre pits three criminal masterminds against the museum and tells how the Mona Lisa actually left the building carried under a coat. (This one is not nonfiction, but it’s a good resource for understanding this historical event.)

Operation Mincemeat
By Ben Macintyre
940.5486 MAC
Chronicles World War II's pivotal deception by two British naval officers who successfully fed false intelligence to the Nazis about where Allied forces were planning an attack in southern Europe.