At Books for the Backpack -- Recommended Summer Reading, Albert Mohler suggests recent books on pirates, presidents, the "bomber boys" who manned B-17s in World War II, the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth, and the Six Day War.
How nice to know that I'm not the only one who finds the better books about history enjoyable as well as educational. :)
Addition: For more on men who manned bombers in World War II, there's the 1943 book, We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing, by Lieut. James C. Whittaker, about the ordeal of the men who went down over the Pacific Ocean with Eddie Rickenbacker, and weren't rescued for three weeks. That's three weeks in small rafts in a trackless, tropical ocean with essentially no food or water.
The Long Way Around by Anne Nesbet
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This 2024 middle grade fiction book reminded me of another book I read a
couple of years ago, Out of Range by Heidi Lang. But I liked The Long Way
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