11 best-selling world war ii books like Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941–45 by Armin Scheiderbauer

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Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941–45

By: Armin Scheiderbauer

3.93

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a P…

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1. The Germans in Normandy

By: Richard Hargreaves

4.18

Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition

This account of the D-Day invasion—from the German point of view—includes maps and photos.   The Al… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

By: Alistair Horne

4.29

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
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4. Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.13

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next t… read more

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  • history
  • war
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was too well-trained to panic."

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

"When do I start?" is the most refreshing thing I've heard in this whole war."

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

"Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots."

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

"Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and disc…"

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

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5. The Great Escape

By: Paul Brickhill

4.03

Format: 320 pages,

One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hun… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

6. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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7. Hell Divers (Hell Divers #1)

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity live… read more

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8. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

9. 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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10. Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific

By: William Marvel , None , None

3.64

Format: 288 pages,

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11. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

By: None

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant… read more

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12. In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front

By: Gottlob Herbert Bidermann , None , None

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert… read more

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13. Steel Boat Iron Hearts: A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505

By: None , None

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

Hans Goebeler is known as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat… read more

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Cover of Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force by Dan Schilling

14. Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

By: Dan Schilling

4.30

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special O… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940–1949 by Erhard Steiniger

16. 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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  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941–1945 by James Sidney Lucas

17. War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941–1945

By: James Sidney Lucas

3.70

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces sto… read more

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  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler by Erwin Bartmann

18. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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Cover of Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr von Rosen

19. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941–45

By: Armin Scheiderbauer

3.93

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a P… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Twilight of the Gods: A Swedish Waffen-SS Volunteer's Experiences with the 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division 'Nordland', Eastern Front 1944–45

By: Thorolf Hillblad

3.98

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Few new personal accounts by Waffen-SS soldiers appear in English; even fewer originate from the mu… read more

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8 must-read audiobook books like Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941–45 by Armin Scheiderbauer

Transform Your Habits

The Germans in Normandy

Richard Hargreaves

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Steve Sheinkin

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

Dan Schilling

4.30

Transform Your Habits

War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941–1945

James Sidney Lucas

3.70

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11 Top audiobook books like Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force by Dan Schilling

Transform Your Habits

The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan

Eric Blehm , None

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

Pete Blaber

4.33

The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan

Gregg Zoroya

3.92

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