Born Under a Lucky Star: A Red Army Soldier's Recollections of the Eastern Front of World War II
By: Ivan Philippovich Makarov
4.26
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir (Wolfgang Faust's Panzer Books)
By: Wolfgang Faust
4.01
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing … read more
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- world war ii
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2. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
By: Jonathan Franklin , Jonathan Franklin
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyo… read more
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"How many of us appreciate the joys of a simple tortilla?"-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
"Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm."-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
"[...] what else motivated him to spend hour after hour with me, telling all the details of his story? I quote at length his answer. "I suffered so much and for so long. Maybe if people read this they…"-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
"There's a lot of talk these days about a thing called resilience. That's the in term at the moment," says Dr. John Leach, a survival psychologist. "You've got built-in resilience, so you can bounce b…"-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
3. The Last Panther - Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945
By: Wolfgang Faust , Sprech Media
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
While the Battle of Berlin in 1945 is widely known, the horrific story of the Halbe Kessel remains … read more
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- world war ii
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4. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
By: Günter K. Koschorrek
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more
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5. The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945
By: Leon Degrelle
4.39
Format: None pages,
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6. Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau
By: Jack Sacco
3.74
Format: 168 pages,
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7. 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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"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
8. To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42
By: Prit Buttar
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A ground-breaking and enthralling history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought t… read more
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9. Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940–1949
By: Erhard Steiniger
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II. read more
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10. The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II Book 1)
By: Limor Regev
4.46
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66. January, 1945 . … read more
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11. Drafted!: My Year in Vietnam
By: Morgan Miller
4.56
Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition
2024 IBPA Gold Ben Franklin Award Winner • 2024 Foreword Review INDIES FinalistMorgan and I both se… read more
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12. Blood on Red Dirt
By: Gary Cowart
4.32
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
Blood on Red Dirt is the true story of Marine Corporal Gary Cowart. The book encompasses the time b… read more
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13. Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front: A German Soldier's Memoir of War and Captivity
By: Luis Raffeiner
3.93
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
A German soldier deployed to Russia recounts his harrowing experience as both victim and perpetrato… read more
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- world war ii
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14. Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
By: Andreas Hartinger
4.53
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
The veteran tells his grandson about his World War II experiences, without pathos, but with grippin… read more
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"Rough nature shapes tough people"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"On, onward ... until the eyes shut …"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"Only those who really experienced the war will want to preserve peace with all their might"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
"War always claims the best. Those selfless fighters who at all times, in life, in death, in victory or defeat, establish the ethos of pure comradeship and genuine soldierhood"-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45
15. Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
By: Erwin Bartmann
4.26
Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition
Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated… read more
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16. The Crowded Hours: The Story of Sos Cohen (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)
By: Anthony Richardson
4.33
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
The remarkable story of Wing-Commander Lionel Cohen who at the age of sixty-nine served as the olde… read more
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17. Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine
By: Andrew Wilson
4.41
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
Normandy, June 1944. Tank commander Andrew Wilson, a twenty-year-old lieutenant, is in charge of a … read more
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18. Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
By: Richard Freiherr von Rosen
4.36
Format: 712 pages, Kindle Edition
A richly illustrated memoir by highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier—“recommended to anyone with an in… read more
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19. Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Volume II: Russia, Hungary, Lithuania, and the Battle for East Prussia
By: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt
4.50
Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition
This second volume of a Nazi soldier's WWII diary continues the chronicle of his experiences on the… read more
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20. Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle
By: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt
4.37
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but… read more
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21. D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy
By: Hans Hoeller
4.52
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the last German veterans of World War II recounts his wartime experiences - with the harrowi… read more
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22. No Place To Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)
By: Anthony Richardson
4.22
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
The eye-opening account of the forgotten and tumultuous Eastern Front in World War Two.Perfect for … read more
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23. Born Under a Lucky Star: A Red Army Soldier's Recollections of the Eastern Front of World War II
By: Ivan Philippovich Makarov
4.26
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
History is written by the victors, but the harsh reality of war can only be depicted by its soldier… read more
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24. The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron
By: Eberhard Baumgart
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army … read more
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25. Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945
By: John Stieber
4.31
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germa… read more
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26. Blood, Dust and Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front, 1938-1943
By: Robin Schaefer
4.28
Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition
"The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian st… read more
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27. The Digger of Kokoda: The Official Biography of Reg Chard
By: Daniel Lane
4.45
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
"Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kok… read more
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28. Undaunted Valor: An Assault Helicopter Unit in Vietnam (Undaunted Valor #1)
By: Matt Jackson
4.03
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
…American troops are in contact… The UH-1H helicopter swoops in to bail them out… …Tracer fire ev… read more
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29. Captain of the 95th (Rifles) an Officer of Wellington's Sharpshooters During the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars
By: Jonathan Leach
4.05
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
Jonathan Leach saw some of the heaviest fighting of Napoleonic Wars. Serving under Wellington with… read more
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30. Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941-1945
By: Anthony Tucker-Jones
4.11
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Anthony Tucker-Jones casts new light on the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front in World War II. T… read more
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31. Old Soldiers Never Die
By: Frank Richards
4.47
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
The author had enlisted in 1901 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was a reservist when the First Wor… read more
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