14 Best world war ii books like The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death by Al Cimino

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The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death

By: Al Cimino

3.15

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But,…

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Cover of Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose

1. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

2. 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
  • historical
  • war
  • 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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3. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

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  • historical
  • war
"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

Cover of Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli, Bruno Bettelheim, Tibère Kremer, Richard Seaver

4. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

By: Miklós Nyiszli , Bruno Bettelheim , Tibère Kremer , Richard Seaver

4.31

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwi… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom."

-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

"Los médicos entienden perfectamente el destino cruel que les ha tocado y son conscientes de la imposibilidad de escapar, pero a pesar de ello se dedican a ayudar, con absoluta abnegación, a los que e…"

-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

"The bodies were not lying here and there throughout the room, but piled in a mass to the ceiling. The reason for this was that the gas first inundated the lower layers of air and rose slowly towards …"

-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

5. Voices from Stalingrad: Unique First-Hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle. Jonathan Bastable

By: Jonathan Bastable

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Offering a record of one of the pivotal events of World War II, as told through the personal accoun… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Bastable's Voices from Stalingrad: Unique First-Hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle. Jonathan Bastable book and Al Cimino's The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg

6. Boy 30529: A Memoir

By: Felix Weinberg

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Anyone who survived the extermination camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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7. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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  • historical

8. The Magician King (The Magicians, #2)

By: Lev Grossman

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon o… read more

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9. The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

By: Frank McDonough

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force. Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerf… read more

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10. Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

5.00

Format: None pages,

Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--rive… read more

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11. Flags of Our Fathers

By: James D. Bradley , Ron Powers

3.50

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Captures the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag … read more

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Cover of American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice

12. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pa…"

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

13. A Field of Innocence

By: None , None

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Jack Estes volunteered to fight a war in a faraway country he couldn't even locate on a map. He was… read more

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14. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps

By: None

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

..". Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution.... Mr. Arad's book… read more

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15. The Longest Day

By: Cornelius Ryan

4.25

Format: 131 pages,

The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more

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16. 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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17. The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis brought to justice

By: None

3.20

Format: 160 pages,

Involving over a hundred defendants, the Nuremberg Trials took place between 1945 and 1945 and brok… read more

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18. The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

Cover of Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home by Jeremy Clarkson

19. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. 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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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. SAS great escapes

By: Damien Lewis

4.26

Format: 10 pages, Audible Audio

No food. No water. Out of ammo. Safety is south. But between there and here is 150 miles of barren … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Churchill's Band of Brothers: WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals by Damien Lewis

22. Churchill's Band of Brothers: WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals

By: Damien Lewis

4.39

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

On the night of June 13th, 1944, a twelve-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objec… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II by Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron of Liverpool

23. The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II

By: Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron of Liverpool

4.12

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of 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

24. 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
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes by Damien Lewis

25. SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

By: Damien Lewis

4.44

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in WW2: An Authorized History by Mark Urban

26. Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in WW2: An Authorized History

By: Mark Urban

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

On the 80th anniversary of their first crucial campaign, in Operation Torch in North Africa, Mark U… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Case Red: The Collapse of France by Robert Forczyk

27. Case Red: The Collapse of France

By: Robert Forczyk

4.08

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British format… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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28. The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death

By: Al Cimino

3.15

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But,… read more

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  • nazi party
  • historical
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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Hitler's Last Day: The Final Hours of the Führer by Richard Dargie

29. Hitler's Last Day: The Final Hours of the Führer

By: Richard Dargie

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Fhrer… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Pure Evil: Inside the Minds and Crimes of Britain’s Worst Criminals by Geoffrey Wansell

30. Pure Evil: Inside the Minds and Crimes of Britain’s Worst Criminals

By: Geoffrey Wansell

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A fascinating exposé of the country's most violent murderers and their horrifying crimes, based on … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group by Gavin Mortimer

31. The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group

By: Gavin Mortimer

4.43

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the inspiration of scientist and soldier … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history

17 Top history books like The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death by Al Cimino

Transform Your Habits

Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

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

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Miklós Nyiszli , Bruno Bettelheim , Tibère Kremer , Richard Seaver

4.31

Voices from Stalingrad: Unique First-Hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle. Jonathan Bastable

Jonathan Bastable

3.02

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Sniper One: The Blistering True Story Of A British Battle Group Under Siege

Dan Mills

4.29

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For Crew and Country: The Inspirational True Story of Bravery and Sacrifice Aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts

John F. Wukovits

4.33

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Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

Bernard Cornwell

4.15

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Rory Clements

4.24

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