10 must-read world war ii books like Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2) by Peter Harmsen

Cover of Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2) by Peter Harmsen

Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2)

By: Peter Harmsen

4.25

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931-1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fort…

If you liked the world war ii plot in Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2) by Peter Harmsen , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The War in the West: Volume 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941 by James  Holland

1. The War in the West: Volume 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941

By: James Holland

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Much of what we think we know about World War II is steeped in myth rather than fact. For seven dec… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins

2. Freedom at Midnight

By: Dominique Lapierre , Larry Collins

4.20

Format: 32 pages,

A famous, major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, and the partition of India. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw

3. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45

By: Ian Kershaw

4.14

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

4. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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5. 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

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

6. 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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7. The Last Battle

By: Cornelius Ryan

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was … read more

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8. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

By: None

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant… read more

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9. The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

By: William K. Klingaman , None

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Like Winchester's Krakatoa,The Year Without Summerreveals a year of dramatic global change long for… read more

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10. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan

By: Ronald H. Spector

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Traces the Pacific war from Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, examining m… read more

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11. Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports

By: Guy Lawson

3.96

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Susan J. Eischeid

12. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

4.40

Format: 960 pages, Paperback

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

Cover of Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll

14. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

By: Steve Coll

4.21

Format: 779 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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15. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Toll of Honor (Expanded Honorverse, #1) by David Weber

16. Toll of Honor (Expanded Honorverse, #1)

By: David Weber

4.33

Format: 617 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW SOLO NOVEL IN DAVID WEBER'S NYT BEST-SELLING HONORVERSE “It is our duty to pay for our lib… read more

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  • military fiction
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17. The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist

By: Peter Tunstall

4.45

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

“A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeat… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome by Nick   Holmes

18. 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
Cover of Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1) by Jeremy Howard-Williams

19. Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1)

By: Jeremy Howard-Williams

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

An engrossing memoir of one RAF fighter pilot’s battle against the Luftwaffe in the dead of night.I… read more

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Cover of Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte

20. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

By: Mary Elise Sarotte

4.25

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings

21. Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By: Max Hastings

4.15

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF’s 6… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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22. 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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23. The Seven Men of Spandau: The Last of the Hitler Gang (Hitler's Henchmen)

By: Jack Fishman

4.27

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The riveting story of what happened to the seven top Nazi war criminals in the aftermath of World W… read more

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24. Coral Sea 1942: Turning the Tide

By: Richard Freeman

4.14

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

In May 1942, the Americans discovered the Japanese planned to take Port Moresby in New Guinea. Aft… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
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25. Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger

By: Sepp de Giampietro

4.09

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

_'The author is a sympathetic narrator and he has told his story... with genuine verve and style...… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2) by Peter Harmsen

26. Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2)

By: Peter Harmsen

4.25

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931-1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fort… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of TEN DAYS TO D-DAY the countdown to the liberation of Europe (David Stafford World War II History) by David Stafford

27. TEN DAYS TO D-DAY the countdown to the liberation of Europe (David Stafford World War II History)

By: David Stafford

4.61

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

The must-read D-Day book reissued for the 80th anniversary with eyewitness accounts from those who … read more

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  • history
Cover of American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and Became the True "Father" of Army Special Forces by Mike Guardia

28. American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and Became the True "Father" of Army Special Forces

By: Mike Guardia

4.03

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A main selection of the Military Book Club and a selection of the History Book Club   With his part… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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29. The Suicide Battalion

By: James L. McWilliams

4.33

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

A staggering history of one of the First World War’s most daring military units. An essential book … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Diary, 1915-16 (The History of World War One) by H.M. Denham

31. Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Diary, 1915-16 (The History of World War One)

By: H.M. Denham

3.57

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

This young naval officer’s diary provides a unique perspective on the Gallipoli catastrophe in Worl… read more

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  • history
  • military history

23 must-read history books like Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2) by Peter Harmsen

Transform Your Habits

The War in the West: Volume 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941

James Holland

2.57

Transform Your Habits

Freedom at Midnight

Dominique Lapierre , Larry Collins

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45

Ian Kershaw

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

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9 must-read audiobook books like Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings

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Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

James Holland

4.47

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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Antony Beevor

4.21

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