82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle
By: Art Shaw
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"A gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaw’s voice as if he were sitting beside you." —…
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1. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.30
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realit… read more
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"No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
2. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
By: Alex Kershaw
4.17
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under t… read more
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3. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
3.98
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The Barnes & Noble ReviewMaster WWII military historian Stephen Ambrose, bestselling author of such… read more
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4. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Ken… read more
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5. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters
3.95
Format: 288 pages,
They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more
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6. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
By: Frederick Downs
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zonetells the story of the plato… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
By: Bob Drury
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more
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9. 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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10. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
By: Kevin Maurer
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day ―comes t… read more
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11. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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12. 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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"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
13. 12 Strong
By: Doug Stanton
3.92
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan imm… read more
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14. Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
By: Ray Lambert
4.41
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Da… read more
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15. On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam
By: William V. Taylor Jr.
4.60
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
Vietnam 1967-68 Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor Jr. and his brother Marines a… read more
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16. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
By: Tom Clavin
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.On August 13, 1944,… read more
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17. 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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18. The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground
By: Justus Rosenberg
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and advent… read more
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19. I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals
By: Frank Sisson
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Poignant . . . Well worth the read." — Wall Street Journal In December 1944, Frank Sisson deployed… read more
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20. They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
By: Ruben Gallego
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forge… read more
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21. 82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle
By: Art Shaw
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"A gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaw’s voice as if he were sitting beside you." —… read more
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