5 best-selling naval history books like The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945 by Richard Hough

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The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945

By: Richard Hough

4.29

Format: 587 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history ‘The Second World War demanded more of…

If you liked the naval history plot in The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945 by Richard Hough , here is a list of 5 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
  • 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. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

By: Ian Fleming

3.91

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more

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"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

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3. Archangel

By: Robert Harris

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of acad… read more

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4. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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5. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain

By: Len Deighton

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

It was the battle that proved Great Britain was a vital force in World War II. It inspired Churchil… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

6. Alamein To Zem Zem

By: None

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Keith Douglas, killed in action in Normandy in 1944, was one of the finest poets of World War II. P… read more

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7. Sketches from a Hunter's Album

By: Ivan Turgenev , Richard Freeborn

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdot… read more

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8. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

By: James Holland

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more

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9. Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape

By: Mark Felton

3.27

Format: 64 pages,

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10. The Good Shepherd

By: C.S. Forester

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The Good Shepherd has been adapted into a major motion picture, Greyhound, scripted by and starring… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
  • naval history
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11. 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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12. 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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13. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

By: Max Hastings

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operati… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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14. Kingfisher

By: Christopher C. Tubbs

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the reign of Charles II and Barbary pirates are causing mayhem and terror in the Mediterranea… read more

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15. A Drowning War: A powerful WWII naval adventure (John Winton WWII Thrillers)

By: John Winton

4.18

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense World War II naval thriller! Perfect for fans of Clive Cussler, John Wingate, Duncan Hardin… read more

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16. Out of the Desert

By: Tom Walker

4.27

Format: 196 pages, ebook

Young, ambitious Royal Air Force pilot Peter Denhay is posted to an operational bomber squadron at … read more

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17. Dust on the Sea

By: Douglas Reeman

4.03

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Young, toughened and … read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
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18. Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

TYRANTS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE RAISED. ANCIENT ROME, AD 37 It begins with a man’s hand curled aro… read more

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Cover of Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two) by Terence Robertson

19. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Terence Robertson

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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20. Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By: Max Hastings

4.15

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF’s 6… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945

By: Stanley Christopherson

4.47

Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition

‘An astonishing record...There is no other wartime diary that can match the scope of these diaries’… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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22. Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine

By: Andrew Wilson

4.41

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Normandy, June 1944. Tank commander Andrew Wilson, a twenty-year-old lieutenant, is in charge of a … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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23. The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis

By: Robert Verkaik

4.07

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A f… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two) by Peter Gretton

24. Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Peter Gretton

4.21

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

An engrossing account by the Royal Navy commander who led the escort of convoy HX231 during the Bat… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. The Greatest Raid of All: Operation Chariot and the Mission to Destroy the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire (Daring Military Operations of World War Two)

By: C.E. Lucas Phillips

4.30

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid account of the famous St Nazaire Raid that demonstrates the sheer bravery of the British Co… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • naval history
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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26. Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine

By: Richard Humphreys

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure.What’s it like to spend three mont… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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27. Hurricane: The Plane That Saved Britain

By: Adrian Stewart

4.30

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

The riveting exploits of a fighter aircraft – and an underrated aerial hero of the Second World War… read more

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28. The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean

By: Roy Conyers Nesbit

3.99

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

The little-known story of how the Royal Air Force kept supplies from reaching Rommel’s Afrika Korps… read more

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29. Breaking Point (The Second World War Series Book 12)

By: Stuart Minor

4.34

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

August 1944.After months of bloody fighting, the Battle for Normandy is almost won.The Allies are o… read more

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30. Ultra at Sea: How Breaking the Nazi Code Affected Allied Naval Strategy During World War II (The Secret War)

By: John Winton

4.28

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling examination on the impact that military intelligence had on the Second World War at … read more

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  • history
Cover of The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945 by Richard Hough

31. The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945

By: Richard Hough

4.29

Format: 587 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history ‘The Second World War demanded more of… read more

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  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

16 best-selling history books like The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945 by Richard Hough

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 Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain

Len Deighton

3.91

Transform Your Habits

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

James Holland

4.47

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15 Best history books like The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis by Robert Verkaik

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

Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?

Horace Greasley , Ken Scott

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Ben Macintyre

4.25

Transform Your Habits

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

Ben Macintyre

4.51

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