At War With The Wind:: The Epic Struggle With Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers
By: David Sears
4.17
Format: 604 pages, Kindle Edition
The legacy of the fanatical kamikaze fighters of World War II—and how it still echoes today—in “a s…
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1. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
3.98
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and… read more
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2. 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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3. Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France
By: Sarah Lew Miller , None , Joyce Block Lazarus
4.25
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Hiding in Plain Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and … read more
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4. The Wright Brothers
By: David McCullough
2.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more
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5. Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Burma
By: Richard Dunlop
4.00
Format: 199 pages,
In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William "Wild B… read more
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6. Immortality, Inc.
By: Robert Sheckley
3.36
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinem… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. The Pacific
By: Hugh Ambrose
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind th… read more
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9. Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan
By: Robert Leckie
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Strong Men Armedrelates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during… read more
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10. Prague Fatale (Bernard Gunther, #8)
By: Philip Kerr
3.42
Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition
September 1941. Bernie Gunther returns from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find his home city … read more
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11. Lockout
By: John J. Nance
4.27
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly a… read more
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12. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
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13. Serpentine (Alex Delaware, #36)
By: Jonathan Kellerman
4.18
Format: 368 pages, ebook
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14. 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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"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
15. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more
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"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
16. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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17. Sharpe's Assassin (Sharpe, #21)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe.SHA… read more
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18. Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)
By: Charles Stross
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Lovecraftian Laundry Files se… read more
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19. Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)
By: Charles Whiting
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
“a provocative and stimulating addition to the study of World War II.” HistoryNetPerfect for reader… read more
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20. America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)
By: Charles Whiting
4.25
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthralling account of the World War Two exploits of the U.S. Seventh Army, from Sicily to Franc… read more
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21. Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima
By: Gordon Thomas
4.37
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
From theNew York Times-bestselling A "fascinating . . . unrivaled" history of the B-29 and its fat… read more
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22. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II
By: Harry H. Crosby
4.58
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war a… read more
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23. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)
By: Terence Robertson
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more
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24. The Battle of the Bulge: Britain's Untold Story (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)
By: Charles Whiting
4.22
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
An eye-opening account of the forgotten involvement of British soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge.… read more
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25. 1939: The World We Left Behind
By: Robert Kee
4.07
Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition
History is based on choices, not truth. The way we see things now is not always how they looked at … read more
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26. Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
By: Lewis Dartnell
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speci… read more
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"We are as utterly reliant on fire today as were our Paleolithic ancestors who huddled around a campfire; we've just hidden it behind the scenes of the modern world."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"...the iron in your blood not only links you to the ancient stars that created it in their nuclear forge but also to the magnetic shield around our world that protects life on Earth."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"The carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels has been rapidly increasing its level in the atmosphere, which is now 45 per cent higher that prior to the Industrial Revolution."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it …"-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
27. Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
By: James Sullivan
3.98
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” ( Kir… read more
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28. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
By: Jason Pargin
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more
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29. A Conscript in Korea
By: Neville Williams
4.21
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir of service in the Korean War, though bitter cold, monsoons, and ever-present danger from e… read more
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30. At War With The Wind:: The Epic Struggle With Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers
By: David Sears
4.17
Format: 604 pages, Kindle Edition
The legacy of the fanatical kamikaze fighters of World War II—and how it still echoes today—in “a s… read more
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31. Caen: Anvil of Victory (Alexander McKee Presents: Key Engagements in World War II)
By: Alexander McKee
3.98
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic account of how the fate of Operation Overlord and the Battle of Normandy was determined at… read more
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