16 must-read nonfiction books like The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik

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The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II

By: Mark Obmascik

4.33

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tra…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

By: Steve Turner

4.26

Format: 464 pages, ebook

A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose gr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

By: Alex Kershaw

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population just 3,000 in 1944--died in the firs… read more

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3. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

By: Daniel James Brown

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

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4. House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

By: John R. Bruning , David Bellavia

3.92

Format: None pages,

One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action a… read more

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5. My Name is Markham (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #7.6)

By: Jodi Taylor

3.87

Format: 334 pages, ebook

Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo - finally - Markham speaks! It's Christmas and time f… read more

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6. The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

By: Jane Leavy

3.76

Format: 656 pages, ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author o… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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8. The Anti-Communist Manifesto

By: Jesse Kelly

4.29

Format: 336 pages, ebook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A rallying cry striking at the roots of today’s major issues, Jesse Kelly uses … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Daniel James Brown

4.49

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw

11. Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery by Tom Cotton

12. Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery

By: Tom Cotton

4.23

Format: 320 pages, ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary journey behind the scenes of Arlington National Cemet… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin

13. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II

By: Adam Makos

4.53

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

By: Max Allan Collins

3.86

Format: 752 pages, ebook

At last, the definitive history of Al Capone, Eliot Ness's Untouchables, and gangster-era Chicago –… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground

By: Justus Rosenberg

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and advent… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Christmas Past  (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #8.6) by Jodi Taylor

18. Christmas Past (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #8.6)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.53

Format: 45 pages, ebook

The First Farrell Family Christmas Max, Leon and Matthew - together at last for Christmas at St Mar… read more

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  • audiobook
"You hear of single-parent families where one of the partners isn’t around for some reason, but as far as I know, no one has invented a word for the sole remaining member of a family where fifty per c…"

-Jodi Taylor, Christmas Past (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #8.6)

Cover of The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik

19. The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II

By: Mark Obmascik

4.33

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tra… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • audiobook
Cover of The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 by James Carl Nelson

20. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

By: James Carl Nelson

3.55

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War I: the story of America’s year-long invas… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

21. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 best-selling audiobook books like The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik

Transform Your Habits

Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

Jane Leavy

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

Daniel James Brown

4.49

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

Alex Kershaw

4.17

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

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The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

Bob Drury

4.34

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