25 Top history books like Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby

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Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.35

Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of…

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1. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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2. The First World War: An Illustrated History

By: A.J.P. Taylor

3.89

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth centur… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr by James  Holland

3. Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr

By: James Holland

4.32

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Product Description The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

4. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. The Second World War

By: Antony Beevor

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier hist… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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6. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

By: Antony Beevor

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

7. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

By: James Holland

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more

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8. The Battle of Britain

By: James Holland

3.95

Format: None pages,

'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer o… read more

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9. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

By: Christopher Clark

3.35

Format: None pages,

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10. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • audiobook
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11. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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12. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

By: James Holland

4.47

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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15. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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16. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

By: James Holland

4.45

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more

Similar categories in James Holland's Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France book and Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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18. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

By: Max Hastings

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operati… read more

Similar categories in Max Hastings's Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 book and Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

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  • germany
  • war
  • audiobook
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20. Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

By: Ian Kershaw

4.19

Format: 666 pages, Hardcover

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"A continuing thread of Europe’s transformation over the seven decades since 1950 has been the central importance of Germany. Change here, in the country that did more than any other to destroy the co…"

-Ian Kershaw, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

"Most people in Europe in 1950 held views that seventy years later would be regarded as anathema. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (arising from their catastrophic breach during the Second Wo…"

-Ian Kershaw, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

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21. Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Nor… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 by Max Hastings

22. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

Similar categories in Max Hastings's The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 book and Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story by Raphael Honigstein

23. Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story

By: Raphael Honigstein

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

JüKlopp's coaching career began in the German second tier at the unfashionable club of FSV Mainz 0… read more

Similar categories in Raphael Honigstein's Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story book and Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • audiobook
Cover of Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner

24. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Travellers in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

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26. Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.35

Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War book and Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

  • russia
  • history
  • soviet union
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian T. Jackson

27. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror by John  Sweeney

28. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

By: John Sweeney

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Epic Siege at the Heart of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor

29. The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Epic Siege at the Heart of WWII's Greatest Battle

By: Iain MacGregor

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Pa… read more

Similar categories in Iain MacGregor's The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Epic Siege at the Heart of WWII's Greatest Battle book and Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of 1945: Victory in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams

30. 1945: Victory in the West

By: Peter Caddick-Adams

4.55

Format: 651 pages, Kindle Edition

'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to … read more

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  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
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31. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Jonathan Dimbleby's Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

18 Best audiobook books like Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby

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James Holland

4.32

Transform Your Habits

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Tom Holland

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Queen Macbeth

Val McDermid

3.77

Transform Your Habits

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James Holland

4.47

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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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David McCullough

4.09

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4.22

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