13 Best nonfiction books like Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier

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Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain

By: Richard Collier

4.13

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Collier's chronicle of the Battle of Britain, drawing heavily on eyewitness accounts from RAF and L…

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1. Five Days in London, May 1940

By: John Lukacs

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the memb… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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2. Elephants Can Remember (Hercule Poirot, #37)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husba… read more

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3. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

By: Damien Lewis

3.79

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When France fell to the Nazis in the winter of 1939, Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

By: Robert Kershaw

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Once more reprinted, this excellent work records the German view of Operation 'Market Garden' and t… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. The First World War

By: John Keegan

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

6. The Ship

By: C.S. Forester

3.38

Format: None pages,

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7. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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8. The Cauldron (Tweed & Co., #13)

By: Colin Forbes

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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10. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
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11. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

By: Antony Beevor

4.21

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

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12. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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13. Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth (Compelling Cold War History)

By: Iain MacGregor

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” ( The Wall Street Journal ) history of … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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15. The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7)

By: Rory Clements

4.11

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo,… read more

Similar categories in Rory Clements's The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7) book and Richard Collier's Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain

  • world war ii
Cover of Low Attack: The Story of Two Mosquito Squadrons in World War Two (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 4) by John Wooldridge

16. Low Attack: The Story of Two Mosquito Squadrons in World War Two (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 4)

By: John Wooldridge

4.08

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid account of two Mosquito squadrons which revolutionised aerial warfare.Perfect for people wh… read more

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17. Into the Silk: The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out — And Lived (Developments in Aviation Book 1)

By: Ian Mackersey

4.24

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airm… read more

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  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)

By: Pierre Clostermann

4.57

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

'THE BIG SHOW is as close as you'll ever get to fighting for your life from the cockpit of a Spitfi… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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19. The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis

By: Robert Verkaik

4.07

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A f… read more

Similar categories in Robert Verkaik's The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis book and Richard Collier's Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Friendless Sky: The story of air combat in World War 1 by Alexander McKee

20. The Friendless Sky: The story of air combat in World War 1

By: Alexander McKee

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. It was to be their first major war since Waterloo. Britai… read more

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  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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21. Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain

By: Richard Collier

4.13

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Collier's chronicle of the Battle of Britain, drawing heavily on eyewitness accounts from RAF and L… read more

Similar categories in Richard Collier's Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain book and Richard Collier's Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • battle of britain

13 Top history books like Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier

Transform Your Habits

Five Days in London, May 1940

John Lukacs

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

Damien Lewis

3.79

Transform Your Habits

It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

Robert Kershaw

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The First World War

John Keegan

3.92

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8 best-selling history books like The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1) by Pierre Clostermann

Transform Your Habits

Into the Silk: The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out — And Lived (Developments in Aviation Book 1)

Ian Mackersey

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Duel of Eagles: The Classic Pilot's Account of the Battle of Britain (Peter Townsend's Air War Collection Book 1)

Peter Townsend

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

Terence Robertson

4.61

Transform Your Habits

The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)

Pierre Clostermann

4.57

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