6 Top world war ii books like Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Tommy MacPherson

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Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

By: Tommy MacPherson

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for h…

If you liked the world war ii plot in Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Tommy MacPherson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Cover of Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time by S.N. Behrman, None

2. Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time

By: S.N. Behrman , None

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

3. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10) by Ian Fleming

4. The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10)

By: Ian Fleming

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

'He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very … read more

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5. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

By: Bill Browder

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more

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6. The Moon's a Balloon

By: David Niven

3.00

Format: None pages,

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7. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

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"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

8. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more

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9. The Day of the Jackal

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more

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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

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10. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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11. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
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12. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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13. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

Cover of Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland

14. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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15. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

By: Billy Connolly

4.42

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."

-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

16. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television by Louis Theroux

17. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

By: Louis Theroux

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, pr… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of The Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis

18. Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of The Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII

By: Damien Lewis

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Br… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day by Giles Milton

19. Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

By: Giles Milton

4.36

Format: 486 pages, Hardcover

A ground-breaking gripping account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France by Jonathan Trigg

20. D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France

By: Jonathan Trigg

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies -… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

By: Tommy MacPherson

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for h… read more

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  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

12 Top history books like Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Tommy MacPherson

Transform Your Habits

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time

S.N. Behrman , None

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Tim Marshall

4.20

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

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David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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