12 Best world war ii books like Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up by Niklas Zetterling

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Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up

By: Niklas Zetterling

3.86

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of “A work of simply outstanding scholarship . . . unreservedly recommended for . …

If you liked the world war ii plot in Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up by Niklas Zetterling , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) by Rick Atkinson

1. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

By: Rick Atkinson

4.29

Format: 681 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"In battle, topography is fate."

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Cover of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

2. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

3. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Eugenio Montale, Allen Mandelbaum

4. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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5. The Waste Lands

By: Stephen King , Ned Dameron

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares--as h… read more

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6. We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41

By: Robert Forczyk

4.61

Format: 313 pages,

In May, 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing… read more

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7. Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II

By: None

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One of America's most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greate… read more

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8. Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941–44

By: Robert Forczyk

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Russian troops moving in to seize the Crimea in 2014, it would be worth remembering that this … read more

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9. Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914

By: Prit Buttar

3.91

Format: 2 pages, Hardcover

Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia clashed on a scale greater than the … read more

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10. Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945: Red Steamroller

By: Robert Forczyk

3.50

Format: 519 pages,

By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht s panzer armies gradually… read more

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Cover of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

11. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

12. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

By: James R. Hansen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. A… read more

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13. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

By: Niall Ferguson

3.93

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"

-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

Cover of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim  Marshall

14. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

15. Dreadnought

By: Robert K. Massie

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more

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Cover of Red Winter (Jack Ryan #22) by Marc Cameron

16. Red Winter (Jack Ryan #22)

By: Marc Cameron

4.30

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

"In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the tr… read more

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  • military fiction
Cover of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry S. Strauss

17. The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

By: Barry S. Strauss

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A “splendid” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James  Holland

18. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

19. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

By: Jeremy Eichler

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar

20. Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943

By: Prit Buttar

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this detailed and engrossing accou… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Philip Matyszak

21. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

By: Philip Matyszak

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most po… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Every time Titus comes to Rome, he feels his sinuses cringe in horror."

-Philip Matyszak, 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

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22. On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

By: B.A. Friedman

3.92

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

On Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staf… read more

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  • military fiction
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"Operational art is what military staffs do to support tactics and strategy."

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"Intelligence is not just information--it is information that has been acquired, processed, and analyzed based on its relevance for the commander, the staff, or the mission."

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"Information warfare consists of everything a military force does to accurately sense and make sense of its interactions with its environment and enemy forces, preserve its ability to do so, and preve…"

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"No military organization can exist without bureaucracy, as distasteful as it may be, and no professional organization should tolerate inefficient administration of bureaucratic requirements. As menti…"

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

Cover of Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival by Luke Harding

23. Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

By: Luke Harding

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, front… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship by Angus Konstam

24. Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship

By: Angus Konstam

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany'… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of War Beneath the Sea: Submarine conflict during World War II (Peter Padfield Naval History) by Peter Padfield

25. War Beneath the Sea: Submarine conflict during World War II (Peter Padfield Naval History)

By: Peter Padfield

4.20

Format: 653 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book to cover all the major submarine campaigns during World War II, "War Beneath the Sea… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears by Adrian Greaves

26. The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears

By: Adrian Greaves

3.80

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the e… read more

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  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up by Niklas Zetterling

27. Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up

By: Niklas Zetterling

3.86

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of “A work of simply outstanding scholarship . . . unreservedly recommended for . … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Guderian: Panzer General (Greenhill Military Paperbacks.) by Kenneth John Macksey

28. Guderian: Panzer General (Greenhill Military Paperbacks.)

By: Kenneth John Macksey

3.64

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Guderian was a man of ideas equipped with the ability to turn inspiration into reality. A master of… read more

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  • military fiction
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Cover of Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 by Daniel J. Hughes

29. Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918

By: Daniel J. Hughes

4.17

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its f… read more

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  • history
  • military history
Cover of Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine & Training in the German Army, 1920-39 by Robert M. Citino

30. Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine & Training in the German Army, 1920-39

By: Robert M. Citino

3.98

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

- Essential background to the German blitzkrieg of World War II - Complements the stories of panzer… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
Cover of Landing on the Edge of Eternity by Robert Kershaw

31. Landing on the Edge of Eternity

By: Robert Kershaw

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and momentous narrative of the first twenty-four hours of D-Day on Omaha the most drama… read more

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  • military fiction
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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

21 best-selling history books like Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up by Niklas Zetterling

Transform Your Habits

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Rick Atkinson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

4.21

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Transform Your Habits

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)

David M. Glantz , Jonathan M. House

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 (General Military)

None , Dennis E. Showalter

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The First World War: A Very Short Introduction

Michael Eliot Howard

3.68

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Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction

Michael Eliot Howard

3.72

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