14 best-selling history books like Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory by Ted Barris

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Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

By: Ted Barris

4.18

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War…

If you liked the history plot in Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory by Ted Barris , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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. Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

By: George MacDonald Fraser

4.05

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780006511250 Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, … read more

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  • war
"It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

"We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down."

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

"Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I’d never seen him with his breeches down,…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

"If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth …"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

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3. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Roger Garland

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

This adventure book tells of Tom's encounters with the River-woman's beautiful daughter, Old Man Wi… read more

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  • audiobook
"Para siempre un mensajero, Un viajero demorado, Errante como una pluma, Un marinero guiado por el viento."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There was a merry passenger, a messenger, a mariner: he built a gilded gondola to wander in, and had in her a load of yellow oranges and porridge for his provender; he perfumed her with marjoram and …"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

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4. Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road a… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Thin Air (Shetland Island, #6)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.91

Format: None pages,

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's … read more

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  • audiobook
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6. Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archa… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. Black Hawk Down

By: Mark Bowden

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

8. London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10)

By: James Patterson

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

TWO OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS JAMES PATTERSON HAS EVER CREATED IN ONE BOOK! Minutes after soldiers e… read more

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9. A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two

By: Murray Peden

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air … read more

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10. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

By: Evan Wright

4.28

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it"

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

11. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

By: John S. Milloy

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school… read more

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12. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

By: Roméo Dallaire , Samantha Power

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

On the 10th anniversary of when UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada proudly publi… read more

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13. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward , Ken Burns

4.45

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts… read more

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14. Dead Water (Shetland Island, #5)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery f… read more

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15. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more

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16. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Ted Barris's Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1) by Chris Hadfield

17. The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)

By: Chris Hadfield

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the sp… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. The House of Kennedy

By: James Patterson

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre

19. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

By: Chris Hadfield

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray

21. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

By: Charlotte Gray

4.19

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th cen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
Cover of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings

22. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • audiobook
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

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23. The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)

By: Daniel Silva

4.38

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thi… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Draft Day: How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind by Doug MacLean

24. Draft Day: How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind

By: Doug MacLean

3.57

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Doug MacLean, former NHL coach, general manager, team president, and one of the game’s biggest pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War by Tim Cook

25. Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

By: Tim Cook

4.11

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

*WINNER OF THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 TEMPLER MEDAL FOR BEST BOOK* From… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • canada
Cover of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

26. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman

4.54

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

27. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

By: Buddy Levy

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones

28. Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

By: Brian Jay Jones

4.19

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by Doug Stanton

29. The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

By: Doug Stanton

4.29

Format: None pages, Audio CD

SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • audiobook
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30. Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

By: Ted Barris

4.18

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Operation Husky

By: Mark Zuehlke

4.19

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Now available in paperback, book seven of the Canadian Battle Series. On July 10, 1943, twenty… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 Best audiobook books like Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory by Ted Barris

Transform Your Habits

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

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

J.R.R. Tolkien , Roger Garland

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

Ann Cleeves

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Thin Air (Shetland Island, #6)

Ann Cleeves

3.91

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19 Top audiobook books like Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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