7 must-read world war ii books like Alamein: War Without Hate by Colin Smith

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Alamein: War Without Hate

By: Colin Smith

4.06

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

For the British, the battle fought at El Alamein in October 1942 became the turning point of the Se…

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1. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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2. 1776

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-David McCullough, 1776

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

-David McCullough, 1776

"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."

-David McCullough, 1776

"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

-David McCullough, 1776

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3. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

By: Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the ci… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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4. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Actually, the “leap of faith"

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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5. Birdsong

By: Sebastian Faulks

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more

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  • war
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6. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)

By: Connie Willis

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at h… read more

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7. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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8. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)

By: David Lagercrantz , George Goulding

3.63

Format: None pages,

Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for sa… read more

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9. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

By: Antony Beevor

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more

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

10. A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

11. Notes from a Small Island

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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12. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By: David Halberstam

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

13. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

By: Catherine Merridale

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

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14. 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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15. The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a sile… read more

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16. 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

17. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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18. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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19. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)

By: Agatha Christie

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train to the Mediterranean -- ingredients… read more

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20. Daughter of Fortune

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-… read more

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"حيث توجد النساء ، توجد الحضارة"

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"Quien se complace en pensar en lo malo, acaba por convocarlo"

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"Non c'è niente di più pericoloso del demone della fantasia acquattato nell'animo femminile."

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

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21. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

By: Thomas Asbridge

4.22

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"The Lionheart had arrived."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

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22. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

23. Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II

By: Herbert A. Werner

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The former German U-boat commander Herbert Werner navigates readers through the waters of World War… read more

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24. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45

By: Max Hastings

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. A companion volume to his best-selling Armageddon, Max H… read more

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25. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7)

By: Karin Smirnoff

3.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. … read more

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26. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll

27. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

By: Ian W. Toll

4.76

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"

-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

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28. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.11

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
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29. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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30. Alamein: War Without Hate

By: Colin Smith

4.06

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

For the British, the battle fought at El Alamein in October 1942 became the turning point of the Se… read more

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  • italy
  • africa
  • history
  • british literature
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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31. Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879

By: Saul David

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 is a fascinating look at the mos… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • british literature
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

17 Top history books like Alamein: War Without Hate by Colin Smith

Transform Your Habits

The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

4.29

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Transform Your Habits

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

3.96

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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