20 Top history books like Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw

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Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

By: Robert Kershaw

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Robert Kershaw creates a page-turning and ground-breaking history of a battle we thought we all alr…

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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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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. Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17

By: Prit Buttar

3.93

Format: None pages,

In Russia's Last Gasp, Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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3. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.99

Format: 272 pages,

Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. The Other Side of Silence (Bernie Gunther, #11)

By: Philip Kerr

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther i… read more

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5. The Lady from Zagreb (Bernard Gunther, #10)

By: Philip Kerr

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Prop… read more

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6. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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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. Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915

By: Prit Buttar

3.99

Format: None pages,

While millions of men died in France and Belgium in 1915, battles equally as large and bloody were … read more

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9. Prague Fatale (Bernard Gunther, #8)

By: Philip Kerr

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

September 1941. Bernie Gunther returns from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find his home city … read more

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10. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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11. 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
  • military history
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12. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on po… read more

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  • world war ii
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13. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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14. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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15. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
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16. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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17. 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
  • 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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18. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

By: James Holland

4.45

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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19. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Nor… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White Jr.

22. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.45

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Richard Snow

23. Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

By: Richard Snow

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known event… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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24. Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.35

Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White

25. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

By: Rowland White

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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26. No Place To Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)

By: Anthony Richardson

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The eye-opening account of the forgotten and tumultuous Eastern Front in World War Two.Perfect for … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Battle for the Bocage: Normandy 1944: The Fight for Point 103, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Vilers Bocage by Tim Saunders

27. Battle for the Bocage: Normandy 1944: The Fight for Point 103, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Vilers Bocage

By: Tim Saunders

4.00

Format: 656 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of the fighting in Normandy by the veteran desert formations brought back by Mont… read more

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  • world war ii
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28. The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron

By: Eberhard Baumgart

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII by Will Iredale

29. The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII

By: Will Iredale

4.39

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner'Compellin… read more

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  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw

30. Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

By: Robert Kershaw

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Robert Kershaw creates a page-turning and ground-breaking history of a battle we thought we all alr… read more

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  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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31. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

21 best-selling nonfiction books like Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

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Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17

Prit Buttar

3.93

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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

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Empire (The Golden Age #2)

Conn Iggulden

4.39

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Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

Bernard Cornwell

4.15

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Napoleon's Spy

Ben Kane

4.04

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