8 best-selling history books like Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (Norton Essays in American History) by Stephen E. Ambrose

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Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (Norton Essays in American History)

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

3.87

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a…

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1. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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2. Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945

By: Frederick Taylor

4.00

Format: 412 pages,

At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many t… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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3. Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By: Jon Meacham

3.62

Format: None pages,

The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more

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"Doctors is all swabs."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

5. Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

5.00

Format: None pages,

Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--rive… read more

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6. Running With Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more

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  • nonfiction
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

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7. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

8. 1939: Countdown to War

By: Richard Overy

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A leading historian re-creates the final hours of peace in Europe. On August 24, 1939, the world h… read more

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9. Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

By: Jeff Shaara

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Sha… read more

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10. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

By: Bob Drury

4.06

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

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"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

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12. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

4.46

Format: 676 pages, Hardcover

The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History

By: Michael S. Neiberg

4.17

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Signed in 1919 between Germany and the Allied Powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (Norton Essays in American History)

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

3.87

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction

9 Top nonfiction books like Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (Norton Essays in American History) by Stephen E. Ambrose

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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945

Frederick Taylor

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Jon Meacham

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Running With Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

3.76

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26 Best history books like Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier by Bob Drury

Transform Your Habits

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

Michael Punke

2.90

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

3.74

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