16 best-selling history books like 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War by Andrew Nagorski

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1941: The Year Germany Lost the War

By: Andrew Nagorski

4.18

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh look at the decisive year 1941, when Hitler’s m…

If you liked the history plot in 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War by Andrew Nagorski , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose

1. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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2. The Good Rat

By: Jimmy Breslin

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt by William L. Shirer

3. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

By: William L. Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Merrill's Marauders: The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II by Gavin Mortimer

4. Merrill's Marauders: The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II

By: Gavin Mortimer

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

In August of 1943, a call went out for American soldiers willing to embark on a "hazardous and dang… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

5. The Hanover Square Affair (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, #1)

By: Ashley Gardner

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1816. Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, bur… read more

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Cover of Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape by Mark Lee Gardner

6. Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape

By: Mark Lee Gardner

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It was the most famous bank robbery of all time, involving the legendary James-Younger gang's final… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

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. A Game of Lies (Hannah Vogel, #3)

By: Rebecca Cantrell

4.09

Format: 256 pages,

Journalist Hannah Vogel returns in A Game of Lies by award-winning author Rebecca Cantrell In prepa… read more

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9. The Emperor of Ocean Park

By: Stephen L. Carter

3.73

Format: 112 pages,

Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny - a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, f… read more

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10. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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11. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer

12. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of An Honourable Thief (Company of Rogues #1) by Douglas Skelton

13. An Honourable Thief (Company of Rogues #1)

By: Douglas Skelton

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

1715. A tale of two cities, and the man caught between them. The Kingdom is riddled with a rumou… read more

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14. See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea

By: Travis Jeppesen

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From ballistic missile tests to stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations, news fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Since my addiction to motion is what feeds my writing, the main purpose of travel for me is to get lost."

-Travis Jeppesen, See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea

"The North Korean regime and its leaders have often been described as irrational. My experiences have made me question that contention and wonder if this “irrationality"

-Travis Jeppesen, See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea

"The North Korean government, for all the terrible things it undeniably and inexcusably does, also builds housing, schools, and hospitals for its citizens. If you had concrete proof that your tourist …"

-Travis Jeppesen, See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea

Cover of Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich

15. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

Similar categories in Volker Ullrich's Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich book and Andrew Nagorski's 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War

  • history
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of 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

16. 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

Similar categories in Harry H. Crosby's A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II book and Andrew Nagorski's 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War

  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman

17. 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder

By: Arthur Herman

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set th… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller

18. Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

By: Donald L. Miller

4.41

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksb… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster

19. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War by Andrew Nagorski

20. 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War

By: Andrew Nagorski

4.18

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh look at the decisive year 1941, when Hitler’s m… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Nagorski's 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War book and Andrew Nagorski's 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

6 must-read military fiction books like 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War by Andrew Nagorski

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

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William L. Shirer

4.29

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Merrill's Marauders: The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II

Gavin Mortimer

3.00

Transform Your Habits

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Harry H. Crosby

4.58

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4.15

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Tom Holland

4.22

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Christopher Clark

4.18

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