8 Best world war ii books like Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed by Michael Jones

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Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed

By: Michael Jones

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Michael K. Jones' new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous ba…

If you liked the world war ii plot in Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed by Michael Jones , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Auschwitz

By: Laurence Rees

4.30

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fu… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"A diferencia del estalinismo y otras dictaduras que se apropiaron, sin más, del poder, el nazismo se sustentó en una base popular."

-Laurence Rees, Auschwitz

2. Hiroshima

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more

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3. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

By: Steven Pressfield

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more

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4. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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  • school
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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5. 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

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6. 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
  • 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

7. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

By: None , None

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without questi… read more

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8. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

By: Max Hastings

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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9. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

By: William Craig

4.25

Format: None pages,

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more

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10. Hitler

By: Ian Kershaw

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitleris a new… read more

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11. Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills

By: Charles Henderson , None

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

Tells the exciting true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam… read more

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12. The Complete Tawny Man Trilogy: Fool's Errand, The Golden Fool, Fool's Fate

By: Robin Hobb

3.51

Format: 383 pages,

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13. Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard re… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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14. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
  • soviet union
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15. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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16. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

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17. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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18. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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19. Ark

By: Veronica Roth

3.60

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a… read more

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"Well, you can’t love everything equally,"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year— those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Well, you can't love everything equally," she said. "You just can't - and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear because that's what love …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis? Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

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20. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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21. Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1)

By: Ken MacLeod

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact' Michael Mammay, a… read more

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22. Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman

By: Mansur Abdulin

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stal… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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23. The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome

By: Nick Holmes

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

It was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower

By: Nick Holmes

4.25

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

WHY DID ROME FALL? In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. True Crime Case Histories - Volume 5: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories

By: Jason Neal

4.16

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

12 True Crime Stories of Murder & Mayhem Fifth Book of the True Crime Case Histories Series (202… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Peter Gretton

4.21

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

An engrossing account by the Royal Navy commander who led the escort of convoy HX231 during the Bat… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war
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27. The Desert Prince (Nightfall Saga, #1)

By: Peter V. Brett

4.25

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new epic fantasy adventure set in the beloved world of the Demon Cycle, following a new gen… read more

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28. Death in the Highlands: The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me

By: J. Keith Saliba

4.34

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, 2021 Gold Medal in history, Military Writers Society of America --  In fall 1965, North Vie… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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29. Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close

By: Bill Close

4.17

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

A remarkable World War II survival story and combat memoir by “an indestructible wartime tank comma… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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30. Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed

By: Michael Jones

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Michael K. Jones' new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous ba… read more

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  • cultural
  • russia
  • history
  • school
  • soviet union
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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31. Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.48

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944 The year 1944 was the turning point of World … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

14 must-read history books like Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed by Michael Jones

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz

Laurence Rees

4.30

Transform Your Habits

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

William L. Shirer

4.21

Transform Your Habits

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O'Reilly

4.19

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13 Best history books like Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close by Bill Close

Transform Your Habits

Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II

Wilhelm Johnen

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Escape From Arnhem: A Canadian Among the Lost Paratroops (Memoirs from World War Two)

Leo Heaps

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

Terence Robertson

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Wingless Victory: The Story of Sir Basil Embry’s Escape From Occupied France in the Summer of 1940 (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)

Anthony Richardson

4.32

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