19 must-read history books like Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945 by Earl R. Beck

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Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945

By: Earl R. Beck

4.05

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

“A tribute to human resilience under extreme stress, both in response to the terror from the sky an…

If you liked the history plot in Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945 by Earl R. Beck , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough

1. Brave Companions: Portraits in History

By: David McCullough

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780671792763 From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Li… read more

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  • history
"…the little known events of a given time, and people who are not in the headlines can be what matters most in the long run – and the long run is the measure of history."

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

"Mainly, writing means a good deal of hard thinking … yet sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications."

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

"The problem, as Thornton Wilder said, lies in the effort to employ the past tense in such a way that it does not rob those events of their character of having occurred in freedom."

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

"In writing history, to catch the feeling and well as the truth of other times, it is of utmost importance … to convey the sense that things need not have happened as they did…the past, after all, is …"

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

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

2. 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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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899-1945 (Bernard Samson, #0) by Len Deighton

3. Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899-1945 (Bernard Samson, #0)

By: Len Deighton

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Epic prelude to the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, that follows the fortunes of a German… read more

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  • world war ii
  • germany
Cover of The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe

4. The Englishman's Boy

By: Guy Vanderhaeghe

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Governor General's Award Counterpointing the stories of the legendary Western cowboy … read more

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5. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

By: Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing ext… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history

6. The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

By: None

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi… read more

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7. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

By: William Craig

4.25

Format: None pages,

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more

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8. Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

By: William L. Shirer , Gordon A. Craig

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,this day… read more

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9. End of a Berlin Diary

By: William L. Shirer

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

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10. The Winter Soldier

By: Daniel Mason

3.99

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Euro… read more

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Cover of 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

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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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James  Holland

12. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

By: James Holland

4.47

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger

13. 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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  • world war ii
  • history
  • germany
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14. Blizzard

By: Ron Schwab

4.60

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Old Dogs and Coldsmith comes the gripping Western adventure, Blizzar… read more

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15. The Last Lifeboat

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.33

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more! Inspired by a remarkable… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939 by Frederick Lewis Allen

16. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Heralded by the New York Times as “a shrewd, concise, wonderfully written account of America in the… read more

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  • history
Cover of A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin

17. A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

By: Eric Jay Dolin

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through … read more

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  • history
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18. The Ghost Tattoo

By: Tony Bernard

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals by James McMurtry Longo

19. Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

By: James McMurtry Longo

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsbur… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • germany
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20. Back to the Garden

By: Laurie R. King

3.92

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life--with potentially fatal … read more

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Cover of The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II by Mike Guardia

21. The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II

By: Mike Guardia

4.40

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From the beaches of Normandy to the shores of Iwo Jima. Harrowing tales of combat…as told by the me… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Long March on Rome: The Forgotten War (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two) by Charles Whiting

22. The Long March on Rome: The Forgotten War (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

By: Charles Whiting

4.29

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

A lively and highly readable study of the often-overlooked Italian Campaign, from the invasion of S… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Suez: The Forgotten Invasion by Robert  Jackson

23. Suez: The Forgotten Invasion

By: Robert Jackson

3.51

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the most significant events in British history, the Suez Crisis heralded the end of the Brit… read more

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  • history
Cover of Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir by Aron Goldfarb

24. Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir

By: Aron Goldfarb

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

The remarkable autobiography of a Holocaust escapee. “Go on, my son. Maybe you will survive…” … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
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25. Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945

By: Earl R. Beck

4.05

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

“A tribute to human resilience under extreme stress, both in response to the terror from the sky an… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • germany
Cover of One of Our Submarines (Pen & Sword Military Classics) by Edward   Young

26. One of Our Submarines (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

By: Edward Young

4.33

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

"[Young] immortalized his distinguished war service as a submariner in the bestselling autobiograph… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
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27. Open Cockpit

By: Arthur Gould Lee

4.27

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional ti… read more

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  • history
Cover of December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War by Evan Mawdsley

28. December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War

By: Evan Mawdsley

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

An account of twelve pivotal days in 1941, when a chain of interlinked events changed world history… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Comanche Sunset: Western Box Set (The Law Wranglers, # 1-3) by Ron Schwab

29. Comanche Sunset: Western Box Set (The Law Wranglers, # 1-3)

By: Ron Schwab

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Kindle Edition

A man searching for his lost son amidst the last days of the Comanche wars!3 BOOKS. 175+ FIVE-STAR … read more

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Cover of The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott

30. The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

By: Astrid Karlsen Scott

4.40

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. The book that inspired the internatio… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of A Motherland's Daughter, A Fatherland's Son by Ellie Midwood

31. A Motherland's Daughter, A Fatherland's Son

By: Ellie Midwood

4.48

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Poland, 1939. A country, torn by the occupation of two unlikely allies - Nazi Germany and the S… read more

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  • world war ii

16 Best world war ii books like Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945 by Earl R. Beck

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The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

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Len Deighton

4.16

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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

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

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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Susan J. Eischeid

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The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder

John Glatt

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Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States

Bradley W. Hart

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Mike Rothmiller

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