18 Best history books like The Battle for Moscow by David Stahel

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The Battle for Moscow

By: David Stahel

4.23

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, no…

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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

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin 1945 book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

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

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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2. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By: Antony Beevor

3.91

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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3. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

By: Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"

-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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4. Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (Modern War Studies)

By: Robert M. Citino

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretch… read more

Similar categories in Robert M. Citino's Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (Modern War Studies) book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

By: Adam Tooze

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
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6. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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7. The Second World War

By: Antony Beevor

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier hist… read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's The Second World War book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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8. Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

By: George MacDonald Fraser

4.14

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packe… read more

Similar categories in George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
". . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time."

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

"Fortunately for the world my generation didn't suffer from spiritual hypochondria - but then, we couldn't afford it. By modern standards, I'm sure we, like the whole population who endured the war, w…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

"It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talk…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

9. 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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10. We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41

By: Robert Forczyk

4.61

Format: 313 pages,

In May, 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing… read more

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11. First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

By: Craig Johnson

4.37

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of chara… read more

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12. 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

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
"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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13. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

By: James M. Scott

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies o… read more

Similar categories in James M. Scott's Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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14. Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness

By: Kenneth M. Pollack

4.30

Format: 696 pages, Hardcover

Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They ha… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth M. Pollack's Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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15. A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By: Anna Reid

3.96

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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16. 1945: Victory in the West

By: Peter Caddick-Adams

4.55

Format: 651 pages, Kindle Edition

'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to … read more

Similar categories in Peter Caddick-Adams's 1945: Victory in the West book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • military fiction
  • history
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17. Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941

By: David M. Glantz

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From a world expert on Hitler's war in Russia's western borders to the immediate outskirts of Lenin… read more

Similar categories in David M. Glantz's Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941 book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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18. From the Realm of a Dying Sun, Volume I: IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944

By: Douglas E. Nash

4.13

Format: 962 pages, Kindle Edition

The first volume of the tactical and operational history of World War II Germany’s fourth SS-Panzer… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • germany
  • nonfiction
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19. The Battle for Moscow

By: David Stahel

4.23

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, no… read more

Similar categories in David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • russia
  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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20. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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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

Similar categories in Richard J. Evans's Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich book and David Stahel's The Battle for Moscow

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history

17 Best nonfiction books like The Battle for Moscow by David Stahel

Transform Your Habits

The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Antony Beevor

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (Modern War Studies)

Robert M. Citino

4.36

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28 Best history books like A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

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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