10 best-selling military fiction books like December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War by Evan Mawdsley

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December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War

By: Evan Mawdsley

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

An account of twelve pivotal days in 1941, when a chain of interlinked events changed world history…

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1. The Associate

By: John Grisham

3.71

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering futu… read more

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"I needed forgiveness, because there were lots of sins in my past. I needed peace, because I’d been at war my entire life. I needed love, because I hated everybody. I needed strength, because deep ins…"

-John Grisham, The Associate

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2. Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

By: Lee Child

4.22

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night… read more

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"Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything."

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

"Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds o…"

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

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3. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

By: Ian W. Toll

4.61

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challe… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. In Plain Sight (Joe Pickett, #6)

By: C.J. Box

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When wealthy matriarch Opal Scarlett vanishes, Joe Pickett is sure one of her greedy sons did her i… read more

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5. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

By: William L. Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America by David Pietrusza

6. 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America

By: David Pietrusza

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-headline true story of Harry Truman's stunning upset! Everyone knows the iconic new… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943

By: Lloyd Clark

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk--on the… read more

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

8. The King of Torts

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Cl… read more

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9. Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages,

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10. Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome — 1944

By: Lloyd Clark

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The Allied attack of Normandy beach has been immortalized in film and literature, but it was the Al… read more

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11. Partners (Rogue Lawyer #0.5)

By: John Grisham

3.34

Format: None pages,

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12. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack

By: Steve Twomey

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A SmithsonianTop History Book of 2016 A Japan TimesBest Book About Japan of 2016 A fascinating look… read more

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13. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more

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14. The Runaway Jury

By: John Grisham

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco… read more

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15. Out Of Range (Joe Pickett, #5)

By: C.J. Box

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Game warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder. Joe … read more

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16. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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17. 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
Cover of On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides

18. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

By: Hampton Sides

4.57

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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19. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Heralded by the New York Times as “a shrewd, concise, wonderfully written account of America in the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of "Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863 by Thomas J. Ryan

20. "Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863

By: Thomas J. Ryan

4.08

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

WINNER OF THE EDWIN C. BEARSS SCHOLARLY RESEARCH AWARDCountless books have examined the battle of G… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Bletchley Park and D-Day: The Untold Story of How the Battle for Normandy Was Won by David Kenyon

21. Bletchley Park and D-Day: The Untold Story of How the Battle for Normandy Was Won

By: David Kenyon

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has beco… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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22. Coral Sea 1942: Turning the Tide

By: Richard Freeman

4.14

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

In May 1942, the Americans discovered the Japanese planned to take Port Moresby in New Guinea. Aft… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (World War Two at Sea) by John Winton

23. War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (World War Two at Sea)

By: John Winton

4.29

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima; the War in the Pacific was one … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of 1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War by Frederick Taylor

24. 1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War

By: Frederick Taylor

3.91

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
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25. Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

By: Walter Lord

4.29

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"In ticking off the things that weren’t done, it was easy to forget the big thing that was done. Against overwhelming odds, with the most meager resources, and often at fearful self-sacrifice, a few d…"

-Walter Lord, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

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26. Whirlwind: War in the Pacific

By: Richard Freeman

4.28

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

In just six months, America turned the rout of Pearl Harbor into the victories of Coral Sea and Mid… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945 by Earl R. Beck

27. Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945

By: Earl R. Beck

4.05

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

“A tribute to human resilience under extreme stress, both in response to the terror from the sky an… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik

28. The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II

By: Mark Obmascik

4.33

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tra… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of TEN DAYS TO D-DAY the countdown to the liberation of Europe (David Stafford World War II History) by David Stafford

29. TEN DAYS TO D-DAY the countdown to the liberation of Europe (David Stafford World War II History)

By: David Stafford

4.61

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

The must-read D-Day book reissued for the 80th anniversary with eyewitness accounts from those who … read more

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  • history
Cover of December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War by Evan Mawdsley

30. December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War

By: Evan Mawdsley

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

An account of twelve pivotal days in 1941, when a chain of interlinked events changed world history… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pacific Onslaught: 7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943 by Paul Kennedy

31. Pacific Onslaught: 7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943

By: Paul Kennedy

4.07

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Japan had mighty ambitions—to control the Western Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor devastated th… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history

19 best-selling history books like December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War by Evan Mawdsley

Transform Your Habits

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

Transform Your Habits

The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America

David Pietrusza

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943

Lloyd Clark

4.25

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19 must-read history books like Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945 by Earl R. Beck

Transform Your Habits

Brave Companions: Portraits in History

David McCullough

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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