The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944
By: Jonathan F. Vance
4.31
Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
3.98
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The Barnes & Noble ReviewMaster WWII military historian Stephen Ambrose, bestselling author of such… read more
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3. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By: Gregory A. Freeman
4.36
Format: None pages,
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified docume… read more
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4. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters
3.95
Format: 288 pages,
They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more
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5. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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6. For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
By: Ian Fleming
3.66
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: this entry relates to the collection of short stories under the title of "For You… read more
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"I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone,…"-Ian Fleming, For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
7. Winter in Madrid
By: C.J. Sansom
3.28
Format: 404 pages,
A vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and riveting tale … read more
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8. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
By: James Holland
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more
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9. The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond
By: Maury Terry
3.75
Format: None pages,
On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the "Son of Sam" murders that had terrori… read more
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10. Devil at My Heels
By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin
3.86
Format: None pages,
The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more
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11. The Heist (Isaac Bell #14)
By: Clive Cussler
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in an all-new adventure in the #1 New Y… read more
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12. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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13. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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14. The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist
By: Peter Tunstall
4.45
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
“A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeat… read more
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15. 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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16. The Centurions (The Centurions #1)
By: Damion Hunter
4.26
Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition
The unputdownable and action-packed story of Ancient Rome.Correus and Flavius are half-brothers, so… read more
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17. The Emperor's Games (The Centurions #3)
By: Damion Hunter
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
Centurions at war. The Roman Empire at stake.Brothers Correus and Flavius have won respect in servi… read more
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18. The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
By: Jack Fairweather
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror?This is untold story of one of the grea… read more
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"So long as the prisoners could believe in the greater good, they were not defeated. Witold's men perished in many terrible ways, but they did so with a dignity that Nazism failed to destroy."-Jack Fairweather, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
"The camp [Auschwitz] had already developed nicknames for those on the edge of starvation: cripples, derelicts, jewels, but the most common was "Musselmänner," or "Muslims," seemingly in reference to …"-Jack Fairweather, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
19. SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers
By: Damien Lewis
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi StormtroopersThe Most Daring Mission Ever UndertakenSAS Gh… read more
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20. The Border Wolves (The Centurions #4)
By: Damion Hunter
4.41
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
The final thrilling tale of the House of Appius Julianus. A new and deadly threat has emerged at t… read more
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21. Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
By: James Holland
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy l… read more
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22. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
By: Joanne Paul
4.17
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more
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23. War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (World War Two at Sea)
By: John Winton
4.29
Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition
Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima; the War in the Pacific was one … read more
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24. The Greatest Raid of All: Operation Chariot and the Mission to Destroy the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire (Daring Military Operations of World War Two)
By: C.E. Lucas Phillips
4.30
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
A vivid account of the famous St Nazaire Raid that demonstrates the sheer bravery of the British Co… read more
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25. Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
By: Bram van der Stok
4.39
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir of the most decorated pilot in Dutch history and one of the World War II POWs who fled Naz… read more
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26. The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944
By: Jonathan F. Vance
4.31
Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition
The real history behind the classic war movie and the men who plotted the daring escape from a Nazi… read more
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27. Giant Killers, War Heroes and Special Forces Legends
By: David A. Yuzuk
4.42
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
What causes a soldier to make the split second to decision to jump on a grenade and sacrifice his l… read more
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28. Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy SEALS
By: Andrew Dubbins
4.66
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
With echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged comra… read more
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29. The Wall at the Edge of the World
By: Damion Hunter
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Army Medic Postumus Justinius Corvus is a long way from his native Britannia, in the Syrian provinc… read more
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30. Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Top Secret Story Behind 007
By: Brian Lett
3.90
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a true story of a force of ‘licensed to kill’ secret agents, commanded by a real war time s… read more
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31. Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
By: Christina Riggs
3.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world,… read more
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