8 must-read world war ii books like Hidden Warships: Finding World War II's Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships by Nicholas A. Veronico

Cover of Hidden Warships: Finding World War II's Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships by Nicholas A. Veronico

Hidden Warships: Finding World War II's Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships

By: Nicholas A. Veronico

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Come face to face with the most incredible WWII-era shipwrecks the bottom of the ocean has to offer…

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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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  • 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

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2. Miracle in the Andes

By: Nando Parrado , Vince Rause

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence. Nando P… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Hindenburg: An Illustrated History

By: Rick Archbold

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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5. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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

6. 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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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

7. Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor

By: Clinton Romesha

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the thirteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating b… read more

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8. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • history
  • war
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

9. Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944

By: Joseph Balkoski

3.92

Format: None pages,

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10. Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal--The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War

By: Joseph Wheelan

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first U.S. offensive of World War II began with no fanfare early August 7, 1942. But, before it… read more

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11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

12. Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)

By: Lee Child , Dick Hill

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Audiobook

Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice pres… read more

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13. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • history
  • war
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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14. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • history
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15. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • history
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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16. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

By: Robert Kurson

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first jo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.09

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seri… read more

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  • history
  • war
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18. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

By: Kevin Maurer

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day ―comes t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James  Holland

19. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

By: James Holland

4.47

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World by Chris Wallace

20. Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World

By: Chris Wallace

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying beh… read more

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  • history
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21. Hidden Warships: Finding World War II's Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships

By: Nicholas A. Veronico

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Come face to face with the most incredible WWII-era shipwrecks the bottom of the ocean has to offer… read more

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