10 must-read history books like The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, Caanan White

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The Harlem Hellfighters

By: Max Brooks , Caanan White

3.30

Format: 107 pages,

From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, h…

If you liked the history plot in The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, Caanan White , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume Four

By: Daniel Abraham , George R.R. Martin

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling writer Daniel Abraham and acclaimed illustrator Tommy Patterson bring their stunning gr… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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2. HMS Ulysses

By: Alistair MacLean

4.07

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of act… read more

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  • war
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3. The Thirty Years War

By: Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood

4.18

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid."

-Anthony Grafton, The Thirty Years War

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4. Guerrilla Warfare

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Brian Loveman , None , Thomas M. Davies Jr.

3.75

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

English, Spanish (translation) read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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5. Shadow

By: Michael Morpurgo , Christine Birmingham

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A stunning and moving new novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller - featuri… read more

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  • war
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6. Red Phoenix (Red Phoenix #1)

By: Larry Bond , Patrick Larkin

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Violent riots formented by foreign agents are breaking out in South Korea. Seizing the opportunity,… read more

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  • war
Cover of D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 by Sprech Media, Holger Eckhertz

7. D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944

By: Sprech Media , Holger Eckhertz

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

This is the hidden side of D Day which has fascinated readers around the world. Almost all accounts… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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8. The Harlem Hellfighters

By: Max Brooks , Caanan White

3.30

Format: 107 pages,

From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, h… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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9. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

By: Harrison E. Salisbury

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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10. The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By: Kim Barker

4.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A true-life Catch-22set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

11. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

By: Catherine Merridale

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

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12. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962

By: Alistair Horne

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the colla… read more

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13. A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return

By: Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a norma… read more

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14. Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends

By: William Guarnere , Robyn Post , Edward Heffron

3.96

Format: None pages,

Tom Hanks introduces the "remarkable" (Publishers Weekly) story of two inseparable friends and sold… read more

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15. Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck

By: Hans von Luck

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A stunning look at World War II from the other side... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Ha… read more

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16. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 3

By: Daniel Abraham , George R.R. Martin , Tommy Patterson

4.50

Format: None pages,

When dealing with a masterpiece, only the best will do. That's why writer Daniel Abraham and illust… read more

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17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Dale A. Jenkins

18. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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19. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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20. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

Cover of Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times by Michael R. Beschloss

21. Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times

By: Michael R. Beschloss

4.22

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

10 Best nonfiction books like The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, Caanan White

Transform Your Habits

The Thirty Years War

Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Guerrilla Warfare

Ernesto Che Guevara , Brian Loveman , None , Thomas M. Davies Jr.

3.75

Transform Your Habits

D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944

Sprech Media , Holger Eckhertz

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Harlem Hellfighters

Max Brooks , Caanan White

3.30

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9 Top history books like Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Dale A. Jenkins

Transform Your Habits

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

Tom Mangold , John Penycate

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

Claudia Davila , Jessica Dee Humphreys , Michel Chikwanine

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

Alistair Horne

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

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