Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
By: John C. McManus
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Moving past the romance and myth of military aviation, the author reveals the dangerous and often f…
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1. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.30
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realit… read more
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"No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
2. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
3. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.19
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
Profiles the Reich's pre-World War II plans for transforming Eastern Europe, describing the conside… read more
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4. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
By: Ian W. Toll
4.61
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challe… read more
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5. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By: Gregory A. Freeman
4.36
Format: None pages,
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified docume… read more
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6. Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War
By: Terry Brighton
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
In Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain's most accomplished military scholars presents an unp… read more
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7. The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of t… read more
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8. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
9. Starship Troopers
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.01
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more
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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
10. Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
By: Marcus Brotherton , Adam Makos
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
These are the stories from fifteen WWII Marines, compiled by Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton but l… read more
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11. Crete: The Battle And The Resistance
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A riveting account of the fall of Greece, the Battle of Crete, and the Cretan Resistance, from the … read more
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12. Streets of Laredo
By: Larry McMurtry
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Loneso… read more
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13. Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45
By: Prit Buttar
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hi… read more
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14. With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain
By: Michael Korda
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer t… read more
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15. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
By: Brad Meltzer
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more
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16. The FNG: A Prequel to the Iron Triangle
By: Douglas L Edwards
4.72
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a prequel to my first novel, 'The Iron Triangle'. In reading my reviews, I realized many re… read more
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17. The Eagle's Claw
By: Jeff Shaara
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a “riveting” ( Booklist ) tale that picks up where To Wake the Giant left … read more
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18. We Stand Alone (The Airmen, #1)
By: David Lee Corley
4.41
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
“A historical novel that reads like a modern political thriller, full of exciting action, larger-th… read more
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19. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II
By: Harry H. Crosby
4.58
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war a… read more
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20. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
By: Mark Harmon
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more
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21. Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
By: John C. McManus
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Moving past the romance and myth of military aviation, the author reveals the dangerous and often f… read more
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22. Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–41 (War in the Far East, #1)
By: Peter Harmsen
4.35
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
War in the Asia Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan… read more
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23. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
By: James M. Scott
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies o… read more
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24. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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25. The Aurora Project: We were not the first (Eemians Book 1)
By: Paul McGowan
4.15
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I was hooked after the first paragraph. It's an incredible story that I had to remind myself… read more
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26. Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship
By: Angus Konstam
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany'… read more
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27. The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
By: Gerald Astor
4.17
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Europe has fallen. Pearl Harbor is in flames. the Eighth. In 1941 the RAF fought a desperate batt… read more
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- world war ii
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28. Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944
By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
4.16
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
On 27 October 1942, four "Long Lance†? torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akig… read more
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29. Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945 (Bluejacket Books)
By: Susan Cosentino
4.12
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties… read more
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30. Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
By: Cary McClelland
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Stanford University Three Books Selection for 2019 “Essential.… A conflicted and complex portrai… read more
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31. Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
By: N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss
4.45
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
Hailed as "the single most effective pilot at Midway" (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck … read more
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