D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
By: Sarah Rose
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency …
Want to Read $ 6.99"They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages."-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
"Where regular forces provide martial muscle, the special forces are surgical and skilled, trained to be “the most potent weapons one can use"-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
"She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable."-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
"Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have said."-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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4.20
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America’s … read more
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2. Flygirl
By: Sherri L. Smith
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn't stop him from fulfilli… read more
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3. The Things a Brother Knows
By: Dana Reinhardt
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of a young marine's return from war in the Middle East and the psychological effects it h… read more
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4. The Short-Timers
By: Gustav Hasford
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Vietnam, 1968. A nightmarish landscape blackened by napalm and littered with once-human debris. Whe… read more
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5. A Brief History of Montmaray (The Montmaray Journals, #1)
By: Michelle Cooper
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
"There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings." Sophie FitzOsbor… read more
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6. Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
By: Madeleine K. Albright , None
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia… read more
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7. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
By: Elizabeth M. Norman
4.27
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," h… read more
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8. Wounded
By: Jasinda Wilder
3.80
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
War has taken everything from me. My family. My home. My innocence. In a country blasted by war and… read more
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9. Lost Lake
By: Phillip Margolin
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Vanessa Kohler wakes from a sound sleep in a California lakeside mansion to find her host, a young … read more
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10. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
By: Matthew Goodman
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite direct… read more
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11. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
By: Liza Mundy
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more
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12. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
By: H.R. McMaster
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York T… read more
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13. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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14. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
15. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
16. Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
By: Lynne Olson
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
The dramatic true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade--codename Hedgehog--the woman who headed the la… read more
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17. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.08
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more
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18. Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
By: Larry Loftis
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy The year is 1942, and Wo… read more
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"She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans."-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
"When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause."-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
19. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
By: Sarah Rose
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency … read more
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"Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have…"-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
20. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
By: Keith O'Brien
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air ra… read more
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21. The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp
By: Stephen R. Matthews
3.82
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
By the time he was six years old, Stephen had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occ… read more
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