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A high-stakes historical thriller where rogue scientists and spies race against time to stop a nuclear apocalypse. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Bastard Brigade.
- tense
- high-stakes
- clandestine
- shadowy
- 01
Bomb
Steve Sheinkin
A globe-trotting, nail-biting true story of spies, commandos, and scientists racing to unlock a world-ending secret.
- 02
Operation paperclip
Annie Jacobsen
A chilling, meticulously documented descent into the moral compromises that built the modern American military-industrial complex.
- 03
The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean
A delightfully quirky romp through the periodic table that reveals the eccentricities, obsessions, and scandals behind the building blocks of our universe.
- 04
The Girls Of Atomic City The Untold Story Of The Women Who Helped Win World War Ii
Denise Kiernan
A fascinating, shadowed glimpse into a bustling secret city where young women unknowingly built the weapon that changed the world.
- 05
American Prometheus
Kai Bird; Martin J. Sherwin · 2005
A sweeping, tragic portrait of a brilliant mind caught between the thrill of discovery and the crushing weight of its world-altering consequences.
- 06
Rogue heroes
Ben Macintyre
A riveting, psychologically sharp plunge into the audacious origins of modern special forces.
- 07
The making of the atomic bomb
Richard Rhodes · 1986
A monumental, dread-laced journey from the pure thrill of theoretical physics to the devastating reality of mass destruction.
- 08
The winter fortress
Neal Bascomb
A tense, heavily documented plunge into the freezing shadows of WWII espionage and covert sabotage.
- 09
Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre
A stranger-than-fiction espionage thriller where the most important secret agent is already dead.
- 10
Caesar's Last Breath
Sam Kean
An expansive, globe-trotting exploration of the invisible elements that connect our every breath to the grand sweep of human history.
- 11
Copenhagen
Michael Frayn · 1999
A ghostly, intellectual sparring match that uses the laws of quantum physics to map the unknowable mysteries of the human heart.
- 12
The monuments men
Robert M. Edsel
A thrilling, real-life race against time to rescue humanity's greatest cultural treasures from the ashes of war.
