Serenade to the Big Bird
By: Bert Stiles
3.95
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
At the age of twenty-two, Bert Stiles joined the American Air Force. Two years later he began his …
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1. 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
2. Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43
By: James Holland
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
June 11, 1940. Italian aircraft pummel the idyllic Mediterranean island of Malta. It is the first o… read more
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4. Nurse, Come You Here!: More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
By: None
3.74
Format: 296 pages,
Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young chil… read more
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5. Subaltern on the Somme
By: Max Plowman
1.00
Format: 96 pages,
Max Plowman joined the 10th Battalion, the West Yorkshire Regiment shortly after it suffered heavy … read more
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6. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters
3.95
Format: 288 pages,
They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more
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7. Goodbye Mickey Mouse
By: Len Deighton
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback
ENGLAND 1944 In Goodbye Mickey Mouse, Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, mul… read more
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8. Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
By: None
3.00
Format: None pages,
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9. 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
10. Eclipse of Reason
By: Max Horkheimer
3.67
Format: 350 pages,
"Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a leading figure in The Frankfurt School, a renowned body of philos… read more
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11. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos
4.36
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more
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"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
12. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more
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13. 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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14. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
By: Mick Herron
4.13
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more
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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
15. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
By: Kevin Maurer
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day ―comes t… read more
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16. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
17. 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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18. Into the Silk: The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out — And Lived (Developments in Aviation Book 1)
By: Ian Mackersey
4.24
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airm… read more
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19. Widespread Panic
By: James Ellroy
3.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the modern master of noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood un… read more
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20. 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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21. Escape From Arnhem: A Canadian Among the Lost Paratroops (Memoirs from World War Two)
By: Leo Heaps
4.25
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
The remarkable true story of a Canadian paratrooper’s escape from behind enemy lines following the … read more
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22. Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1)
By: Jeremy Howard-Williams
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
An engrossing memoir of one RAF fighter pilot’s battle against the Luftwaffe in the dead of night.I… read more
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23. Luck of the Draw
By: Frank Murphy
4.22
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and und… read more
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24. Serenade to the Big Bird
By: Bert Stiles
3.95
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
At the age of twenty-two, Bert Stiles joined the American Air Force. Two years later he began his … read more
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25. TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH
By: W. R. Shepherd
4.52
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
A classic and favorite of aviation enthusiasts for many decades. And a well liked television series… read more
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26. The Phantom Flotilla: The Most Exciting True Story from the Royal Navy's History
By: Peter Shankland
4.07
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
It was one of the strangest, most exciting passages in the history of the Royal Navy – the true adv… read more
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27. The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII
By: Elmer Bendiner
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A SHINING ACCOMPLISHMENT. A CLASSIC' NEW YORK TIMES ‘RANKS AMONG THE OUTSTANDING AIR MEMOIRS OF T… read more
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28. Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Fighter Pilot
By: Brian Lane
4.20
Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition
• This new illustrated Kindle edition published by Spitfire Publishers in July 2018 substitutes Bri… read more
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29. The Complete Harry Voss Case Files Books 1–3 (The Advocate #1-3)
By: Bill Mesce Jr.
4.33
Format: 1484 pages, Kindle Edition
In this three-book box set: BOOK 1: THE ADVOCATE 1943, England. The unthinkable has a loca… read more
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30. Clean Sweep: VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942–45
By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
4.30
Format: 614 pages, Kindle Edition
A vivid narrative history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fight… read more
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31. Target Berlin: An Epic True Story of Valor and Sacrifice in the War-Torn Skies over Europe (The Air Combat Trilogy Book 1)
By: Jeffrey Ethell
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
'THE ME 110 WAS FIFTY FEET IN FRONT OF ME. I CLOSED STILL MORE, FIRING SHORT BURSTS. SUDDENLY HE EX… read more
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