17 Top nonfiction books like Undersea Warrior: The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo by Don Keith

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Undersea Warrior: The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo

By: Don Keith

4.46

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable true story of Dudley “Mush” Morton, the most admired—and feared—submarine commander …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Undersea Warrior: The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo by Don Keith , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew

1. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

By: Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and ad… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Fuck you, God. Nothing gets through HY-80"

-Sherry Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Cover of Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey

2. Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

By: Eugene B. Fluckey

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew memb… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • naval history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine by Richard H. O'Kane

3. Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine

By: Richard H. O'Kane

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The USS Wahoo's performance in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the empire is lege… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer

4. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

By: James D. Hornfischer

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do … read more

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

5. All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion

By: Jerome Preisler , Kenneth Sewell

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a lo… read more

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Cover of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Paul Fussell, Eugene B. Sledge

6. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of To Hell and Back by Tom Brokaw, Audie Murphy

7. To Hell and Back

By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy

4.25

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

8. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

By: None

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant… read more

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9. The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang

By: William Tuohy

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

"There's no margin for mistakes in submarines. You're either alive or dead." -Richard O'Kane Hailed… read more

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10. Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion

By: Ed Offley

3.94

Format: None pages,

One Navy admiral called it "one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era." The U.S. Navy o… read more

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Cover of 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

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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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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. U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific

By: James D. Horan , Gerold Frank , None

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

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13. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

By: Richard H. O'Kane

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. This is her story as told by her skip… read more

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14. Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II

By: Stephen Coonts , Barrett Tillman

4.24

Format: 96 pages,

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Cover of Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

15. Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

4.35

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Eruption by Michael Crichton

16. Eruption

By: Michael Crichton

3.91

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A history-making once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. … read more

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Cover of Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie

17. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
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  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of NO BAD TROOPS (MILES TO VIETNAM Book 6) by William Peter Grasso

18. NO BAD TROOPS (MILES TO VIETNAM Book 6)

By: William Peter Grasso

4.52

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

January 1969: A treasonous ARVN colonel threatens the success of a joint US/South Vietnamese operat… read more

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Cover of Cuban Deep (Hunter Killer #3) by George  Wallace

19. Cuban Deep (Hunter Killer #3)

By: George Wallace

4.41

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

WHEN A VENEZUELAN ADMIRAL ATTEMPTS AN AMBITIOUS POWER GRAB, AMERICA’S ELITE WARRIORS MUST STOP A DI… read more

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  • military fiction
Cover of Blood Warm Waters: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel (USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series Book 8) by Scott Cook

20. Blood Warm Waters: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel (USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series Book 8)

By: Scott Cook

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Death rises from the deep and tropical seas burn as the tide of war continues to rise…Art Turner an… read more

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Cover of Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two) by Charles Whiting

21. Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

By: Charles Whiting

4.17

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

“a provocative and stimulating addition to the study of World War II.” HistoryNetPerfect for reader… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • 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

22. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
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Cover of Snapshot (Hunter Killer, #8) by George  Wallace

23. Snapshot (Hunter Killer, #8)

By: George Wallace

4.50

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

When an international crisis erupts in eastern Russia, the US Navy must race to avoid a nuclear apo… read more

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  • military fiction
Cover of Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two) by Terence Robertson

24. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Terence Robertson

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • naval history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Silent Running (Hunter Killer, #7) by George  Wallace

25. Silent Running (Hunter Killer, #7)

By: George Wallace

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The axis of global power has shifted. Is it too late to restore the balance? Biding its time fo… read more

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26. Undersea Warrior: The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo

By: Don Keith

4.46

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable true story of Dudley “Mush” Morton, the most admired—and feared—submarine commander … read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • war
  • military history
  • naval history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Bomber Boys: Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II by Travis L. Ayres

27. The Bomber Boys: Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II

By: Travis L. Ayres

4.40

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

True tales of heroism and the men who fought and died in the skies of World War II Europe.In World … read more

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  • history
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  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Silent Service in World War II: The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who Lived It by Edward Monroe-Jones

28. The Silent Service in World War II: The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who Lived It

By: Edward Monroe-Jones

4.13

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy had a total of 111 submar… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
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Cover of Sink 'Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific by Charles A. Lockwood

29. Sink 'Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

By: Charles A. Lockwood

4.23

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

Sink ’Em All, was originally published in 1951 by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the U.S. Navy c… read more

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  • history
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  • military history
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Cover of The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea by John Pina Craven

30. The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea

By: John Pina Craven

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Packed with the technological details and insights into military strategy that fans of Tom Clancy r… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Capture or Kill (Mitch Rapp, #23) by Vince Flynn

31. Capture or Kill (Mitch Rapp, #23)

By: Vince Flynn

4.53

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Rapp faces an Iranian foe bent on destabilizing the Middle East in the newest thriller from V… read more

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  • military fiction

17 Top history books like Undersea Warrior: The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo by Don Keith

Transform Your Habits

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

Eugene B. Fluckey

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine

Richard H. O'Kane

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

James D. Hornfischer

2.50

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5 must-read audiobook books like 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

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

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Transform Your Habits

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

Larry Alexander , Adam Makos

4.36

Transform Your Habits

A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

Harry H. Crosby

4.58

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