7 Top military history books like Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War by Colin Beavan

Cover of Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War by Colin Beavan

Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War

By: Colin Beavan

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling inside story of the secret “special operations” mission that paved the way for D- Day…

If you liked the military history plot in Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War by Colin Beavan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

1. 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

Similar categories in Donald L. Miller's Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany book and Colin Beavan's Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War

  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • 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

Cover of Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #11) by Michael    Connelly

2. Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #11)

By: Michael Connelly

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstret… read more

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Cover of Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William H. McRaven

3. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

By: William H. McRaven

4.00

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Listening Length: 1 hour and 53 minutes If you want to change the world, start off by making you… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction

4. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

By: William Craig

4.25

Format: None pages,

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more

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5. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

By: Daniel Yergin

0.00

Format: None pages,

The Prizerecounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth and power that has al… read more

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Cover of The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII by Bob Drury

6. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

By: Bob Drury

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War by Antonio J. Méndez

7. The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War

By: Antonio J. Méndez

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
Cover of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

8. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

By: Ronen Bergman

4.40

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more

Similar categories in Ronen Bergman's Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations book and Colin Beavan's Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War

  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Cover of Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie

9. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

By: Robert Leckie

4.22

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Cover of 40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles (World War II Collection) by Cynthia  Kraack

10. 40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles (World War II Collection)

By: Cynthia Kraack

4.42

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Before there were Navy SEALs, before there were Green Berets, there were the 40 Thieves: the elite … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal

11. Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite, 1956-1990

By: James Stejskal

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This book relays the history of a little known and highly classified US Army Special Forces Detachm… read more

Similar categories in James Stejskal's Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite, 1956-1990 book and Colin Beavan's Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War

  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War by Colin Beavan

12. Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War

By: Colin Beavan

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling inside story of the secret “special operations” mission that paved the way for D- Day… read more

Similar categories in Colin Beavan's Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War book and Colin Beavan's Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War

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

8 Top history books like Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War by Colin Beavan

Transform Your Habits

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

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

Bob Drury

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War

Antonio J. Méndez

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Ronen Bergman

4.40

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12 Best audiobook books like Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

Transform Your Habits

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll

4.21

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