20 Best nonfiction books like Intrepid Aviators: The American Flyers Who Sank Japan's Greatest Battleship by Gregory G. Fletcher

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Intrepid Aviators: The American Flyers Who Sank Japan's Greatest Battleship

By: Gregory G. Fletcher

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of the World War II Pacific naval battle that pitted the USS Intrepid's naval aviato…

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1. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by Aaron J. Klein

2. Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response

By: Aaron J. Klein

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history

3. Singularity (Star Carrier, #3)

By: Ian Douglas

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There is an unseen power in the universe--a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of t… read more

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4. Centers of Gravity (Frontlines, #8)

By: Marko Kloos

4.56

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Stranded light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and his crew are on a desperate mission to dis… read more

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  • military fiction
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5. King's Fall (Odyssey One #8)

By: Evan Currie

4.43

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

The Empire has suffered the existence of their enemies for too long as it is, and her Majesty has d… read more

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6. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

By: Kevin Maurer

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day ―comes t… read more

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

7. 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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  • 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

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8. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

By: Antony Beevor

4.21

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

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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

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10. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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

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11. Into the Light (Out of the Dark, #2)

By: David Weber

4.15

Format: 503 pages, Kindle Edition

In New York Times-bestselling science fiction epic Out of the Dark, Earth beat back an alien invasi… read more

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  • military fiction
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12. Into the Silk: The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out — And Lived (Developments in Aviation Book 1)

By: Ian Mackersey

4.24

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airm… read more

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  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

By: Tom Clavin

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.On August 13, 1944,… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack

14. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

By: Bill Hammack

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Imperial Gambit (Archangel One, #3) by Evan Currie

15. Imperial Gambit (Archangel One, #3)

By: Evan Currie

4.48

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

The Empire, in its refusal to be dissuaded from hostilities, have placed the fledgling Terran Allia… read more

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  • military fiction
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16. A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo

By: Walter Lord

4.04

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garris… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M. Scott

17. 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
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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18. Into the Chaos (Rise of the Republic, #4)

By: James Rosone

4.48

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible massacre was discovered… …Did the same fate befall Sumer? Captain Brian Royce brin… read more

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  • military fiction
Cover of Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings

19. Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By: Max Hastings

4.15

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF’s 6… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson

20. The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.47

Format: 652 pages, Hardcover

A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett by James Sullivan

21. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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22. The Fleet That Had To Die

By: Richard Hough

4.09

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

By autumn 1904, the Russo-Japanese war had been raging for six months. Routed in Manchuria, the Rus… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway by Walter Lord

23. Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

By: Walter Lord

4.29

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
"In ticking off the things that weren’t done, it was easy to forget the big thing that was done. Against overwhelming odds, with the most meager resources, and often at fearful self-sacrifice, a few d…"

-Walter Lord, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

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24. The Cactus Air Force: Air War over Guadalcanal

By: Eric Hammel

4.29

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid narrative brings to life the st… read more

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  • history
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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25. Alamein

By: Jon Latimer

3.84

Format: 529 pages, Kindle Edition

The Battle of El Alamein in 1942 brought a sense of victory to a Britain grown weary from defeat. A… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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26. Intrepid Aviators: The American Flyers Who Sank Japan's Greatest Battleship

By: Gregory G. Fletcher

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of the World War II Pacific naval battle that pitted the USS Intrepid's naval aviato… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Best of American Heritage: World War I by Edwin S. Grosvenor

27. The Best of American Heritage: World War I

By: Edwin S. Grosvenor

4.20

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

Here, from some of America's greatest historians and generals - among them, John Steele Gordon, Gen… read more

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  • history

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4.00

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Aaron J. Klein

4.13

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Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

Kevin Maurer

4.34

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Ari Shavit

4.22

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Daniel Gordis

4.31

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Steve Coll

4.44

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4.21

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