Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II
By: Robert Child
4.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Med…
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1. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
By: Erik Larson
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more
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- history
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"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
2. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
By: Steve Martin
3.88
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concer… read more
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- nonfiction
"I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years."-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business."-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"How many people have never raised their hand before?"-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
3. Ghostwritten
By: David Mitchell
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong … read more
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4. The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
By: James D. Hornfischer
4.33
Format: 308 pages, ebook
The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy … read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
- military history
5. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
By: Molly Guptill Manning
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 mi… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Shores of Tripoli (Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates #1)
By: James L. Haley
4.72
Format: 64 pages,
It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing thre… read more
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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
- history
- nonfiction
8. Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich
By: Brian Moynahan
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous… read more
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9. John Wayne: The Life and Legend
By: Scott Eyman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more t… read more
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10. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)
By: Moniquill Blackgoose
4.17
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more
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11. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more
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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
12. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
By: Evan Thomas
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
- military history
13. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
14. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- military history
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
15. Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
3.83
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the s… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- military history
16. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more
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17. 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
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- history
- nonfiction
- 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
18. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
By: Ian W. Toll
4.76
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
- military history
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
21. Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
By: Alex Kershaw
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
- military history
22. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
By: James M. Scott
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- military history
23. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- military history
24. The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
By: Matthew Pearl
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirt… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
By: Thomas B. Buell
4.47
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance. Spruance, v… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
- military history
26. War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict
By: Mick Ryan
3.94
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
War The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
27. Razor 03: A Night Stalker’s Wars
By: Alan C. Mack
4.44
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
“A truly extraordinary book by a phenomenal pilot and warrior. Alan Mack was in the thick of every … read more
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- nonfiction
- military history
28. Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II
By: Robert Child
4.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Med… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
- military history
29. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
30. Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
By: Rachel Kousser
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to c… read more
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- nonfiction
31. K-9 Korea: The Untold Story of America's War Dogs in the Korean War
By: J. Rachel Reed
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The men of the 8125th Sentry Dog Detachment had no idea what they would find when their ship docked… read more
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"Aren't we as a society better, stronger, when we have these best examples of humanity to rest our hopes on? And aren't we better when we can look at the failures of humanity and vow, 'Never again'?"-J. Rachel Reed, K-9 Korea: The Untold Story of America's War Dogs in the Korean War
