17 Top history books like The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch

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The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

By: Michael Veitch

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lu…

If you liked the history plot in The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Batavia

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.25

Format: 490 pages, Hardcover

The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Chickenhawk

By: Robert Mason

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma … read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War by W. Craig Reed

3. Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War

By: W. Craig Reed

4.62

Format: None pages,

"Red Novemberdelivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep th… read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of A Sappers' War: How the Legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats Fought the Vietcong by Jimmy Thomson, Sandy MacGregor

4. A Sappers' War: How the Legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats Fought the Vietcong

By: Jimmy Thomson , Sandy MacGregor

3.89

Format: 432 pages, ebook

They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. This is t… read more

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5. Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

By: Mike Carlton

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS AustraliaI, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sy… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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6. Ghost Empire

By: Richard Fidler

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

GHOST EMPIRE is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contempora… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

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

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

8. Kokoda

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.58

Format: 226 pages,

For Australians, Kokodais the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the m… read more

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9. Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

By: Adam Makos

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Unbrokenand The Boys in the Boatcomes an unforgettable tale of courage from America'… read more

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10. Killer Caldwell: Australia's Greatest Fighter Pilot

By: None

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

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11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Michael Veitch's The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

  • nonfiction
  • history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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12. Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

3.83

Format: 708 pages, Hardcover

A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more

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13. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decora… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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14. Low Attack: The Story of Two Mosquito Squadrons in World War Two (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 4)

By: John Wooldridge

4.08

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid account of two Mosquito squadrons which revolutionised aerial warfare.Perfect for people wh… read more

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15. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

By: Kate Solly

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more

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"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."

-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

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16. The Ghost Tattoo

By: Tony Bernard

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of… read more

Similar categories in Tony Bernard's The Ghost Tattoo book and Michael Veitch's The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of RAAF Black Cats: The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine by Robert Cleworth

17. RAAF Black Cats: The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine

By: Robert Cleworth

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missin… read more

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  • world war ii
  • aviation
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18. 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
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92) by Alan Kohler

19. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

Similar categories in Alan Kohler's The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92) book and Michael Veitch's The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

  • nonfiction
Cover of Di Di Mau: A True Story About Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle, and War by Darren Walton

20. Di Di Mau: A True Story About Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle, and War

By: Darren Walton

4.21

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

“A revealing, sometimes gut-wrenching war memoir that examines virtually every aspect of his tour o… read more

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  • war
Cover of The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton

21. The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean

By: Mike Carlton

4.56

Format: 616 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With s… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Legend of White 19 (The Watson Saga #3) by Roger Maxim

22. The Legend of White 19 (The Watson Saga #3)

By: Roger Maxim

4.22

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Pilot Dave Watson returns from England hoping to join a Corsair squadron in the Pacific. He does, b… read more

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23. Curlews on Vulture Street

By: Darryl Jones

4.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In Curlews on Vulture Street , acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not-so-secret liv… read more

Similar categories in Darryl Jones's Curlews on Vulture Street book and Michael Veitch's The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

  • nonfiction
Cover of Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The Heroic Story of the Australian Who Helped Rescue JFK by Brett Mason

24. Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The Heroic Story of the Australian Who Helped Rescue JFK

By: Brett Mason

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a … read more

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Cover of The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit by Larry Writer

25. The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit

By: Larry Writer

4.01

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of the Dunbar.'gripping… read more

Similar categories in Larry Writer's The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit book and Michael Veitch's The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Whispering Death: Australian Airmen in the Pacific War by Mark D. Johnston

26. Whispering Death: Australian Airmen in the Pacific War

By: Mark D. Johnston

4.35

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

In Whispering Death, Mark Johnston, one of Australia's leading experts on World War II, explains vi… read more

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  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • history
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27. The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

By: Michael Veitch

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lu… read more

Similar categories in Michael Veitch's The Battle of the Bismarck Sea book and Michael Veitch's The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz by Alwin Meyer

28. Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz

By: Alwin Meyer

4.17

Format: 911 pages, Kindle Edition

The children of this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They we… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of D-Day New Guinea: The extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest combined airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War by Phillip Bradley

29. D-Day New Guinea: The extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest combined airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War

By: Phillip Bradley

3.95

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

The most complete telling of one of the most significant campaigns of the Pacific War and Australia… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dive!: Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton

30. Dive!: Australian Submariners at War

By: Mike Carlton

4.47

Format: 648 pages, Kindle Edition

Submariners are a special breed. Not for them a life on the ocean wave, the fresh air and sunshine … read more

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