Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life
By: Thomas Alexander Hughes
4.18
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids…
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1. Avenger
By: Frederick Forsyth
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful pr… read more
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"Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it"-Frederick Forsyth, Avenger
"As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression of frozen astonishment. At the end of the street passers-by turned…"-Frederick Forsyth, Avenger
2. The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)
By: Dean Koontz
4.19
Format: 517 pages, Hardcover
Jane Hawk - fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine - continues her battle aga… read more
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"Laws the seemed to be about making the Internet more fair, making it more democratic and open...Woven through them are levers with which government agencies can control what's seen."-Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)
3. The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
By: William Geroux
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coas… read more
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- history
- biography
- military fiction
- world war ii
- nonfiction
4. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By: Gregory A. Freeman
4.36
Format: None pages,
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified docume… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
5. Sentinels of Fire (World War 2 Navy)
By: P.T. Deutermann
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
P.T. Deutermann's World War II navy series began with the award-winning Pacific Glory, followed by … read more
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- world war ii
- military fiction
6. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
7. Nimitz
By: E.B. Potter
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fully covers Nimitz's naval career in addition to delving into his rural childhood and roles as hus… read more
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- history
- biography
- military fiction
- world war ii
- nonfiction
8. The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
By: Stephen Harding
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be th… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
9. The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1)
By: Mark Greaney
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, m… read more
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10. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more
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11. Winged Escort
By: Douglas Reeman
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
July 1943. As the grim years of the Second World war go by, the destruction of Allied shipping moun… read more
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12. The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer — The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb
By: None
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summ… read more
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13. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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14. Pacific Glory (World War 2 Navy)
By: P.T. Deutermann
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A thrilling, multi-layered World War II adventure following two men and an unforgettable woman, fro… read more
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15. A Perfect Spy
By: John Le Carré
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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16. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
By: Giles Milton
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secre… read more
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17. Crete: The Battle And The Resistance
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A riveting account of the fall of Greece, the Battle of Crete, and the Cretan Resistance, from the … read more
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18. The Battle of Britain
By: James Holland
3.95
Format: None pages,
'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer o… read more
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19. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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20. Nimitz Class (Admiral Arnold Morgan, #1)
By: Patrick Robinson
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The most powerful warship in the world, the nuclear-powered U.S. Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier is s… read more
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21. Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
By: Frank Herbert
3.86
Format: 669 pages, Paperback
Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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"Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?"-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
22. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
23. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
24. Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
By: Frank Herbert
3.89
Format: 609 pages, Paperback
Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adv… read more
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"What does a mirror look at?"-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
"I am not the river I am the net."-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
"Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded."-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
25. 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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- biography
- nonfiction
26. Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
By: Tania Crasnianski
3.85
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Borm… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
27. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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- biography
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
28. The Commodore
By: P.T. Deutermann
4.51
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
P. T. Deutermann's previous novels of the US Navy in World War II - Pacific Glory, Ghosts of Bungo … read more
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- military fiction
29. Patton's Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton's Rise to Glory
By: Stephen L. Moore
3.73
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A stirring World War II combat story of how the legendary George Patton reinvigorated a defeated an… read more
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- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
30. Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life
By: Thomas Alexander Hughes
4.18
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids… read more
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- biography
- military fiction
- world war ii
- nonfiction
31. Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General, 1893-1981 (American Military Experience)
By: Steven L. Ossad
4.12
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
When Omar Nelson Bradley began his military career more than a century ago, the army rode horses in… read more
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