11 Top history books like Goodnight, Sorry For Sinking You: The Story of the S.S. City of Cairo by Ralph Barker

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Goodnight, Sorry For Sinking You: The Story of the S.S. City of Cairo

By: Ralph Barker

4.65

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

On 6th November 1942 the S.S. City of Cairo was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-68 in the middle o…

If you liked the history plot in Goodnight, Sorry For Sinking You: The Story of the S.S. City of Cairo by Ralph Barker , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Harry was a Crap Hat

By: Brian Harry Clacy

4.07

Format: 248 pages,

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2. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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3. The War in the Shadows: The Battle of the Spymasters in WWII (The Secret War)

By: Charles Whiting

4.09

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling exposé of the spies who moved in the darkened dangerous back alleys of World War Two… read more

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4. 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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5. 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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6. Out of Hand in a Foreign Land

By: Stephen Koral

4.01

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

In his late twenties and appalled at the thought of doing a nine to five until he died, Stephen Kor… read more

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Cover of Wingless Victory: The Story of Sir Basil Embry’s Escape From Occupied France in the Summer of 1940 (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two) by Anthony Richardson

7. Wingless Victory: The Story of Sir Basil Embry’s Escape From Occupied France in the Summer of 1940 (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)

By: Anthony Richardson

4.32

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of an airman’s audacious escape from occupied France in World War Two.Perfect for fa… read more

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8. The Long Road Home: An account of the author's experiences as a prisoner-of-war in the hands of the Germans during the Second World War (Memoirs from World War Two)

By: Adrian Vincent

4.21

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

The honest account of one prisoner-of-war’s struggle to survive through five years of Nazi imprison… read more

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9. The Painter

By: Dean Cavanagh

3.97

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

The Painter is the no holds barred, unflinching true story of a man from a London council estate wh… read more

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10. The Submariners: Life in British Submarines, 1901-1999 (20th Century Naval Innovations)

By: John Winton

4.33

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The entire span of British submarine history has been carefully recorded the tragedies in both pe… read more

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11. Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine

By: Andrew Wilson

4.41

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Normandy, June 1944. Tank commander Andrew Wilson, a twenty-year-old lieutenant, is in charge of a … read more

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12. Coronel and Falkland

By: Barrie Pitt

4.09

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

1914.Britain’s Naval supremacy is being challenged for the first time since Trafalgar. At large in… read more

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13. The Greatest Raid of All: Operation Chariot and the Mission to Destroy the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire (Daring Military Operations of World War Two)

By: C.E. Lucas Phillips

4.30

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid account of the famous St Nazaire Raid that demonstrates the sheer bravery of the British Co… read more

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14. URBAN SMUGGLER

By: Andrew Pritchard

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

It has all the elements of a Hollywood crime movie. Gangsters, guns, girls, tons of money and half … read more

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15. The Phantom Flotilla: The Most Exciting True Story from the Royal Navy's History

By: Peter Shankland

4.07

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

It was one of the strangest, most exciting passages in the history of the Royal Navy – the true adv… read more

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16. No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege

By: Major Adam Jowett

4.53

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times bestseller, powerful, highly-charged and moving, No Way Out is Adam Jowett’s tribute… read more

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"It was strange to see the enemy up close, and at length. I could see fear in their faces - the knowledge that they could be cut down at any moment - but also a willingness to accept that fate in orde…"

-Major Adam Jowett, No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege

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17. Sunday Bloody Sunday: A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq

By: Gregory Michael Budd

4.40

Format: 509 pages, Kindle Edition

Gold is forged in fire. Men in the furnace of adversity…Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Ha… read more

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18. Desperate Journey: Escape from Burma in 1942, through 900 miles of arduous, Japanese-occupied territory

By: Francis Clifford

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

“This is a story of escape; a true account of how a dwindling group of soldiers made their way to s… read more

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19. There was a soldier: Based on true events, the remarkable story of a Scottish soldier in the Great War

By: David Muir

4.36

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world at war, only love can keep you alive …Of the millions of soldiers who fought in the Grea… read more

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20. The Devil's Own Luck: Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic, 1944–45 (Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45)

By: Denis Edwards

4.30

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throug… read more

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21. When Are You Going Back?: A memoir of the sea (Memoirs of the Sea Book 3)

By: Harry Nicholson

4.50

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Following volumes one and two: 'The Best of Days' and 'You'll See Wonders', here is part three of t… read more

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22. A Beautiful Bag of Fish

By: James Joseph

3.83

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

'We shouldn’t follow other countries and how they police their communities, if this happens we may … read more

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23. Anders Lassen VC, MC, of the SAS

By: Mike Langley

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic true story of the heroic Danish World War II soldier who received Britain’s highest mi… read more

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Cover of A Foot Soldier's War – The Survivor : Arras: The fight to the last bullet… The starving POW… The long walk home… The peace begins December 1917 – July 1919 (Nobody Of Any Importance episodes Book 3) by Sam Sutcliffe

24. A Foot Soldier's War – The Survivor : Arras: The fight to the last bullet… The starving POW… The long walk home… The peace begins December 1917 – July 1919 (Nobody Of Any Importance episodes Book 3)

By: Sam Sutcliffe

4.16

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

Foot soldier Sam Sutcliffe enlisted at 16, survived the front line at Gallipoli 1915, the Somme 191… read more

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25. Ultra at Sea: How Breaking the Nazi Code Affected Allied Naval Strategy During World War II (The Secret War)

By: John Winton

4.28

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling examination on the impact that military intelligence had on the Second World War at … read more

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26. REME The Magnificient Bastards

By: Tyrone Rees

4.52

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

I’d never seen anybody bite the head off anything in the Rhondda Valley. King just stared at me wit… read more

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27. Goodnight, Sorry For Sinking You: The Story of the S.S. City of Cairo

By: Ralph Barker

4.65

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

On 6th November 1942 the S.S. City of Cairo was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-68 in the middle o… read more

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28. The British Empire. My Part In Its 'Decline'.: The Merchant Navy and Me

By: John Ayres

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a story about a young man setting out on an adventure. It takes him several times around th… read more

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29. Behind Enemy Lines (Who Dares Wins Book 1)

By: Nigel Cawthorne

4.04

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

‘An interesting and detailed account of little known operations by British special forces behind en… read more

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Cover of I Am London's Most Successful Crook: My amazing true story. I stole £10 million and never got caught. by Terry Cunningham

30. I Am London's Most Successful Crook: My amazing true story. I stole £10 million and never got caught.

By: Terry Cunningham

4.16

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the most astonishing and unique crime story you will ever read. This isn't fantasy, fiction… read more

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31. True Stories of World War Two

By: Robin Cross

4.10

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

World War II was the deadliest war that humankind has experienced so far. But while great attentio… read more

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Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

Charles Whiting

4.17

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America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

Charles Whiting

4.25

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

Ian Mackersey

4.24

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The Fighting Tenth: The Tenth Submarine Flotilla and the Siege of Malta (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

John Wingate

4.33

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