14 best-selling history books like Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings

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Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By: Max Hastings

4.15

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF’s 6…

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1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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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  • history
  • historical
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  • world war ii
  • aviation
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  • audiobook
"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

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3. 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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"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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4. SS-GB

By: Len Deighton

3.37

Format: 320 pages,

1941, and England invaded - and defeated - by the Germans... The King is a hostage in the tower, th… read more

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  • war
Cover of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor

5. 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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6. The Guns of Navarone

By: Alistair MacLean

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been dr… read more

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  • war

7. An Officer and a Spy

By: Robert Harris

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more

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8. The Cauldron (Tweed & Co., #13)

By: Colin Forbes

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. 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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10. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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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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12. 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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13. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

By: Antony Beevor

4.21

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more

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"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

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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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  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
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15. 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

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  • world war ii
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  • audiobook
Cover of Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe by James  Holland

16. 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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  • audiobook
Cover of Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings

17. Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By: Max Hastings

4.15

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF’s 6… read more

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  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • audiobook
Cover of Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White

18. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

By: Rowland White

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more

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  • world war ii
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19. Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II

By: James Holland

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy l… read more

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20. The Sardinian Job

By: Eddie Lancaster

3.91

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

Another smash hit, best-selling winner, featuring more hilarious, laugh-out-loud, slapstick comedy … read more

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Cover of TEN DAYS TO D-DAY the countdown to the liberation of Europe (David Stafford World War II History) by David Stafford

21. TEN DAYS TO D-DAY the countdown to the liberation of Europe (David Stafford World War II History)

By: David Stafford

4.61

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

The must-read D-Day book reissued for the 80th anniversary with eyewitness accounts from those who … read more

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9 must-read audiobook books like Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings

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Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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

James Holland

4.47

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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Antony Beevor

4.21

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12 Best history books like D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor

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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

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Monte Cassino: The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II

Matthew Parker

4.06

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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

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