The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis
By: Robert Verkaik
4.07
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
2. Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
By: Horace Greasley , Ken Scott
3.73
Format: 256 pages, ebook
An incredible true tale of one man's courage and defiance of the German nation in the name of love … read more
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3. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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4. Parsnips: Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life.
By: Joe Lycett
3.50
Format: None pages,
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5. Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
By: Ben Macintyre
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most re… read more
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6. Gomorrah
By: Roberto Saviano
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction accou… read more
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7. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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8. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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9. Wait for Me
By: Santa Montefiore
4.13
Format: 400 pages, ebook
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn comes a captivating new nov… read more
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10. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on po… read more
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11. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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12. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… 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
14. 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
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15. 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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16. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
By: Burkhard Bilger
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more
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17. 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
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18. The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7)
By: Rory Clements
4.11
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo,… read more
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19. 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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20. My Name Is Nobody (Solomon Vine, #1)
By: Matthew Richardson
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
A breathless, gripping must-read for fans of Terry Hayes' I Am Pilgrim and James Swallow's Nomad'I … read more
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21. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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22. SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers
By: Damien Lewis
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi StormtroopersThe Most Daring Mission Ever UndertakenSAS Gh… read more
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23. Every Spy a Traitor (The Double Agent series Book 1)
By: Alex Gerlis
4.11
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station 'Utterly gripping and sta… read more
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24. The Extra Mile
By: Kevin Sinfield
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary memoir from Rugby League's greatest and most inspirational player The Extra Mi… read more
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25. The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis
By: Robert Verkaik
4.07
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A f… read more
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26. The Jane Seymour Conspiracy (The Marquess House Saga #4)
By: Alexandra Walsh
4.36
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
Marquess House is under threat… London, 1527 Nineteen-year-old Jane Seymour arrives at court … read more
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27. Eject! Eject!
By: John Nichol
4.59
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'Eject! Eject!' When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the stor… read more
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28. SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes
By: Damien Lewis
4.44
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two… read more
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29. The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.
By: Micah Richards
4.11
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game… read more
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30. The Devil's Own Luck: Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic, 1944–45 (Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45)
By: Denis Edwards
4.30
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throug… read more
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31. The Tasting Menu: A Short Story
By: Stuart MacBride
3.58
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short tale from Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dead of Winter and … read more
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