21 Best nonfiction books like THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER by Henry Metelmann

Cover of THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER by Henry Metelmann

THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER

By: Henry Metelmann

4.29

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Here is the extraordinary story of one man’s war. This book portrays the gradual awakening in the m…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER by Henry Metelmann , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Forgotten Soldier

By: Guy Sajer

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Forgotten Soldier  recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the ey… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

"And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience."

-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

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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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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of One Soldier's War in Chechnya by Nick Allen, Arkady Babchenko, Аркадий Бабченко

3. One Soldier's War in Chechnya

By: Nick Allen , Arkady Babchenko , Аркадий Бабченко

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A vivid, autobiographical account of what life was like for a young soldier in Russia's Chechen war… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

4. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam

By: Mark Garrison

3.97

Format: 112 pages,

Synopsis In the summer of 1967, Mark Garrison had dropped out of college at Southern Illinois Unive… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

6. Jackdaws

By: Ken Follett

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needleand The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett once again… read more

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7. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

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8. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

9. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

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Cover of A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Larry Alexander, Adam Makos

10. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos

4.36

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"

-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

11. Hitler's Children - Spitting Fire (Eyewitness Accounts - 12th SS Panzer 'Hitler Youth' in Normandy 1944)

By: Sprech Media

4.00

Format: None pages,

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12. Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944

By: Max Hastings

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

World-renowned British historian Sir Max Hastings recounts one of the most horrific months of World… read more

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13. Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II

By: Herbert A. Werner

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The former German U-boat commander Herbert Werner navigates readers through the waters of World War… read more

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14. Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940–1949

By: Erhard Steiniger

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II. read more

Similar categories in Erhard Steiniger's Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940–1949 book and Henry Metelmann's THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • war
  • memoir
Cover of On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam by William V. Taylor Jr.

15. On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam

By: William V. Taylor Jr.

4.60

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Vietnam 1967-68 Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor Jr. and his brother Marines a… read more

Similar categories in William V. Taylor Jr.'s On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam book and Henry Metelmann's THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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16. Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

By: Andreas Hartinger

4.53

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

The veteran tells his grandson about his World War II experiences, without pathos, but with grippin… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Rough nature shapes tough people"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

"On, onward ... until the eyes shut …"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

"Only those who really experienced the war will want to preserve peace with all their might"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

"War always claims the best. Those selfless fighters who at all times, in life, in death, in victory or defeat, establish the ethos of pure comradeship and genuine soldierhood"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

Cover of Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler by Erwin Bartmann

17. Für Volk and Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

By: Erwin Bartmann

4.26

Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition

Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam by James M. Dixon

18. Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam

By: James M. Dixon

4.39

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Things I’ll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being draft… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr von Rosen

19. Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By: Richard Freiherr von Rosen

4.36

Format: 712 pages, Kindle Edition

A richly illustrated memoir by highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier—“recommended to anyone with an in… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle by Hans Heinz Rehfeldt

20. Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle

By: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt

4.37

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Arno Sauer

21. In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2

By: Arno Sauer

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

A Nazi infantryman recalls the horrors of combat against the Soviet Union in this WWII memoir as to… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • memoir
Cover of D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy by Hans Hoeller

22. D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy

By: Hans Hoeller

4.52

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the last German veterans of World War II recounts his wartime experiences - with the harrowi… read more

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  • history
  • military history
Cover of My Senior Trip: Memories of Vietnam by John Reeg

23. My Senior Trip: Memories of Vietnam

By: John Reeg

4.80

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

Vietnam, 1968. There are recounts of the Vietnam War that span lifetimes. There are countless stori… read more

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24. The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron

By: Eberhard Baumgart

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945 by John Stieber

25. Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945

By: John Stieber

4.31

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germa… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ypres, 1917: A Personal Account (Full Pack — A Private’s War) by NORMAN GLADDEN

26. Ypres, 1917: A Personal Account (Full Pack — A Private’s War)

By: NORMAN GLADDEN

4.26

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling eyewitness account of the bloody battle of Passchendaele. Perfect for fans of Lyn Ma… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of The Somme, 1916: A Personal Account (Full Pack — A Private’s War) by NORMAN GLADDEN

27. The Somme, 1916: A Personal Account (Full Pack — A Private’s War)

By: NORMAN GLADDEN

4.21

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

On 1 July 1916, after a week-long bombardment from heavy artillery, British and French forces advan… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger by Sepp de Giampietro

28. Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger

By: Sepp de Giampietro

4.09

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

_'The author is a sympathetic narrator and he has told his story... with genuine verve and style...… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Breakout at Stalingrad by Heinrich Gerlach

29. Breakout at Stalingrad

By: Heinrich Gerlach

4.26

Format: 772 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the greatest novels of the Second World War' The Times 'A remarkable find' Antony Beevor'A … read more

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  • world war ii
  • germany
  • military fiction
  • war
Cover of Men of 18 in 1918: Memories of the Western Front in World War One (The History of World War One) by Frederick James Hodges

30. Men of 18 in 1918: Memories of the Western Front in World War One (The History of World War One)

By: Frederick James Hodges

4.47

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

An astounding account of one young infantryman’s personal experience of the Western Front in the la… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER by Henry Metelmann

31. THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER

By: Henry Metelmann

4.29

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Here is the extraordinary story of one man’s war. This book portrays the gradual awakening in the m… read more

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

21 must-read history books like THROUGH HELL FOR HITLER by Henry Metelmann

Transform Your Habits

The Forgotten Soldier

Guy Sajer

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Chickenhawk

Robert Mason

3.75

Transform Your Habits

One Soldier's War in Chechnya

Nick Allen , Arkady Babchenko , Аркадий Бабченко

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

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24 must-read history books like Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945 by John Stieber

Transform Your Habits

Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir (Wolfgang Faust's Panzer Books)

Wolfgang Faust

4.01

Transform Your Habits

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

Sprech Media , Holger Eckhertz

4.12

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

Jonathan Bastable

3.02

Transform Your Habits

D DAY Through German Eyes: Book One and Book Two

Sprech Media , Holger Eckhertz

4.60

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