14 must-read nonfiction books like Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom Fighters by Michael FitzGerald

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Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom Fighters

By: Michael FitzGerald

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

During World War II, many deeply mysterious events took place in the fog and chaos of conflict. The…

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

By: None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
"The troop commander's name was Rich...[and] he was one of the best leaders I've ever known. His motto, which I've stolen from him, is, 'Nobody ever worked for me. They worked with me."

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

"...the daily morning muster began beneath a sign that said, 'Are you ready for war today? You should be.' SEALs hadn't fired a shot in anger for years. But nobody ever admitted that around civilians,…"

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

Cover of Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 6 by Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba

2. Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 6

By: Takeshi Obata , Tsugumi Ohba

4.41

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Final Volume--Contains Volumes 11 and 12 of Death Note! Light Yagami… read more

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  • mystery
"-Yo soy la justicia. -Eres un asesino de masas alienado. Solo eso. Nada más."

-Takeshi Obata, Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 6

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3. Jersey Guns (The Executioner, #17)

By: Don Pendleton

3.88

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

Hemmed in by killers, the Executioner fertilizes the Garden State with blood Mack Bolan bombs down … read more

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4. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

By: Jonathan Franklin , Jonathan Franklin

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"How many of us appreciate the joys of a simple tortilla?"

-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

"Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm."

-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

"[...] what else motivated him to spend hour after hour with me, telling all the details of his story? I quote at length his answer. "I suffered so much and for so long. Maybe if people read this they…"

-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

"There's a lot of talk these days about a thing called resilience. That's the in term at the moment," says Dr. John Leach, a survival psychologist. "You've got built-in resilience, so you can bounce b…"

-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

Cover of Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen

5. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

6. 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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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Day

By: Elie Wiesel , Anne Borchardt

3.79

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Bo… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
"I was lying. I would have to lie. A lot. She was ill. It's all right to lie to sick people."

-Elie Wiesel, Day

"I thought he was talking about my grandmother. I didn't want to see her. I knew she had died - of thirst, maybe - and I was afraid she wouldn't be as I remembered her. I was afraid she wouldn't have …"

-Elie Wiesel, Day

"...why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And…"

-Elie Wiesel, Day

Cover of Dawn (The Night Trilogy #2) by Elie Wiesel, Frances Frenaye

8. Dawn (The Night Trilogy #2)

By: Elie Wiesel , Frances Frenaye

3.66

Format: 320 pages,

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-contr… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war

9. Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident

By: None

4.30

Format: 237 pages,

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10. Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 5

By: Takeshi Obata , Tsugumi Ohba , Tetsuichiro Miyaki

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Killer 2-for-1 value on hit thriller Death Note! Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+ Co… read more

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11. All's Well That Ends Well

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.99

Format: 273 pages,

In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Dire… read more

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12. Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

By: Jim Frederick

3.95

Format: 315 pages,

This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infa… read more

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13. Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 4

By: Takeshi Obata , Tsugumi Ohba

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audience T+. Contains Volumes 7 and 8 of Death Note! Light Yaga… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. The Pursuit of God

By: A.W. Tozer

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit … read more

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17. The Living Planet

By: David Attenborough

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

(Also has Collins ISBN - 0002191393) Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and m… read more

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18. The Sisters Brothers

By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more

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19. Texas Storm (The Executioner, #18)

By: Don Pendleton

4.33

Format: 192 pages,

Texas was hard territory, a giant state with a Mafia operation to match. But Mack Bolan would handl… read more

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20. Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.09

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seri… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decora… read more

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  • historical
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22. The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #5)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.09

Format: 400 pages, ebook

A FRAGILE PEACE. AN APOCRYPHAL WARNING. CHAOS WAITING IN THE HEART OF THE STORM. With his dying … read more

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  • mystery
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23. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the… read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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24. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unsolved Serial Killers: 10 Frightening True Crime Cases of Unidentified Serial Killers (The Ones You've Never Heard of) Volume 1 by D.R. Werner

25. Unsolved Serial Killers: 10 Frightening True Crime Cases of Unidentified Serial Killers (The Ones You've Never Heard of) Volume 1

By: D.R. Werner

3.60

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the chilling true stories of killers who stalked their victims undetected and remain free … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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26. Transformers: The Manga, Vol. 1

By: Masumi Kaneda

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Originally serialized in Japan’s TV Magazine, these classic stories from the Generation 1 era of Tr… read more

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27. Call Sign Dracula: My Tour with the Black Scarves April 1969 to March 1970

By: Joe Fair

3.96

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

"Call Sign Dracula" provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a U… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
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28. Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom Fighters

By: Michael FitzGerald

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

During World War II, many deeply mysterious events took place in the fog and chaos of conflict. The… read more

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  • true crime
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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29. Unsolved Murders

By: Victoria Mason

3.25

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

A Stunning Look At The Worlds Most Famous Unsolved Murder Cases, Unsolved Mysteries, Unsolved Crime… read more

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  • true crime
Cover of Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb by Toby Wilkinson

30. Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb

By: Toby Wilkinson

4.21

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian bo… read more

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  • history
Cover of Nazi Sex Spies: Seduction, Subterfuge and State Secrets by Al Cimino

31. Nazi Sex Spies: Seduction, Subterfuge and State Secrets

By: Al Cimino

3.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

All is fair in love and war. At least the Nazis thought so. They deployed sex like any other weapo… read more

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11 best-selling history books like Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom Fighters by Michael FitzGerald

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

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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

Jonathan Franklin , Jonathan Franklin

4.33

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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Annie Jacobsen

3.69

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

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The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back

Charles Pellegrino

4.17

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Fire Base Illingworth: An Epic True Story of Remarkable Courage Against Staggering Odds

Philip Keith

0.00

The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

Frederick Downs

4.60

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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

Bill O'Reilly

4.09

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