12 Top world war ii books like They Fought Alone by John C. Keats

Cover of They Fought Alone by John C. Keats

They Fought Alone

By: John C. Keats

4.38

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

The 1942.The The Japanese-occupied island of Mindanao in the Philippines.The A stirring true acc…

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Cover of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

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

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Cover of Blood Trail (Joe Pickett, #8) by C.J. Box

2. Blood Trail (Joe Pickett, #8)

By: C.J. Box

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. Game wardens have found a … read more

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Cover of Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front by Jeremy Dronfield, Lee Trimble

3. Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

By: Jeremy Dronfield , Lee Trimble

3.94

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eas… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story by George Wilson

4. If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

By: George Wilson

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II command… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth by Steve Snyder

5. Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

By: Steve Snyder

4.21

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and AliveFor the first time, the full and complete story… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war

6. Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

By: David Fisher

3.60

Format: 212 pages,

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Cover of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Paul Fussell, Eugene B. Sledge

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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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • 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

8. Endangered (Joe Pickett, #15)

By: C.J. Box

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming g… read more

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9. The Pacific

By: Hugh Ambrose

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind th… read more

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10. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

By: Tim O'Brien

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF… read more

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Cover of A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Larry Alexander, Adam Makos

11. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos

4.36

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"

-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

12. Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

By: Adam Makos

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Unbrokenand The Boys in the Boatcomes an unforgettable tale of courage from America'… read more

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13. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

By: Mark Adams

3.64

Format: 211 pages,

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Cover of The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII by Bob Drury

14. 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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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23) by C.J. Box

15. Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facili… read more

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Cover of Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie

16. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival by Tom Clavin

17. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II by Mike Guardia

18. The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II

By: Mike Guardia

4.40

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From the beaches of Normandy to the shores of Iwo Jima. Harrowing tales of combat…as told by the me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Flight Quack: The true story of the Vietnam War’s most decorated flight surgeon, who became a CIA assassin by Alan S. Levin

19. Flight Quack: The true story of the Vietnam War’s most decorated flight surgeon, who became a CIA assassin

By: Alan S. Levin

4.53

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

"Why do I need a gun? I'm a doctor!" Over fifty years ago, I was a Harvard-trained pediatrician … read more

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  • history
  • war
Cover of Lions of Medina: The True Story of the Marines of Charlie 1/1 in Vietnam, 11-12 October 1967 by Doyle D. Glass

20. Lions of Medina: The True Story of the Marines of Charlie 1/1 in Vietnam, 11-12 October 1967

By: Doyle D. Glass

4.41

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

Thursday, 12 October 1967 Marine Lance Corporal Kevin Cahill stepped onto a trail deep in the remo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (World War Two at Sea) by John Winton

21. War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (World War Two at Sea)

By: John Winton

4.29

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima; the War in the Pacific was one … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
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22. Courage on the Mountain

By: George Reischling

4.22

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Projecting skyward ominously 3200 feet above the surrounding flat jungle terrain towered a solitary… read more

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23. Silent Valor: One Man's Vietnam War

By: Rick Greenberg

4.68

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

A young Marine deployed to Vietnam finds terror, danger, and death, but also courage, loyalty, and … read more

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Cover of On The Ground: The Secret War in Vietnam by John Stryker Meyer

24. On The Ground: The Secret War in Vietnam

By: John Stryker Meyer

4.58

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

During the Vietnam War, a "secret war" was fought across the fence in Laos, Cambodia and North Viet… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
Cover of After The Guns Are Silenced: Book Five Long Gray Target Series (The Long Gray Target 5) by Roger Maxim

25. After The Guns Are Silenced: Book Five Long Gray Target Series (The Long Gray Target 5)

By: Roger Maxim

4.28

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

The war is over!The Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945, brought the battles to an end and the … read more

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26. A Simple Soldier

By: Steve Fehrenbach

4.55

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

The United States Army drafted Steve in 1969. Like many young men, he was unaware of the consequenc… read more

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Cover of Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster

27. Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

By: John L. Plaster

4.58

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

SOG was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the forerunner of today's Delta Force and Navy SEALs.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
"The more I recognized these tactical styles, the more I saw the ideal as a balance. Despite the contradiction, a recon [team leader] had to be part wolf and part rabbit--selectively bold or cautious-…"

-John L. Plaster, Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

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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  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of They Fought Alone by John C. Keats

29. They Fought Alone

By: John C. Keats

4.38

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

The 1942.The The Japanese-occupied island of Mindanao in the Philippines.The A stirring true acc… read more

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Cover of Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines by Charles F. Stanley

30. Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines

By: Charles F. Stanley

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Late in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wildern… read more

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  • history
Cover of Lieutenant Ramsey's War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander (Memories of War) by Edwin Price Ramsey

31. Lieutenant Ramsey's War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander (Memories of War)

By: Edwin Price Ramsey

4.50

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After the fall of the Philippines in 1942 - and after leading the last horse cavalry charge in U.S.… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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19 best-selling history books like They Fought Alone by John C. Keats

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

Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

Jeremy Dronfield , Lee Trimble

3.94

Transform Your Habits

If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

George Wilson

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

Steve Snyder

4.21

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14 must-read history books like Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster

Transform Your Habits

Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

Ed Kugler

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Whispers In The Tall Grass

Nick Brokhausen

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Across The Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam (Expanded Edition)

John Stryker Meyer

4.49

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