8 best-selling history books like The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by D.K. Publishing

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The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By: D.K. Publishing

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the Second World War - the ep…

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1. The Odessa File

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organi… read more

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  • war
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2. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

By: Jon Meacham

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

3. The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)

By: David Weber

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as a prelude to conquest. That's w… read more

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4. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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5. Execution Day (The Broken Doll #3)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.18

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

When justice is on the line, the courtroom becomes a battleground for a prosecutor obsessed with vi… read more

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6. The Pain Hunter (The Broken Doll #1)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.03

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

A violent jailbreak bleeds into a street fair in Wisconsin. In the wake of the carnage, a getaway v… read more

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7. Dodge (The Broken Doll #2)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.21

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing can stop an avenging vigilante from channeling her rage—or pursuing her prey. Not the relen… read more

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8. Sixty-One Seconds (The Broken Doll #4)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.16

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

The hunter has captured her prey, and a sociopathic crime boss faces justice at last. But it’s not … read more

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9. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

By: Kim Ghattas

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

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10. The Old Lion

By: Jeff Shaara

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion a brilliant novel tracing the life… read more

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11. Hellburner (Oregon Files #16)

By: Mike Maden

4.40

Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition

When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the leader of Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel and loses an … read more

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12. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

By: Max Hastings

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operati… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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13. Turning Point

By: Jeffery Deaver

3.90

Format: 63 pages, ebook

A serial killer is trolling a midwestern suburb. His tools: a hammer, a screwdriver, floral wire, a… read more

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14. Cause of Death

By: Jeffery Deaver

3.99

Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition

Jon Talbot is a history professor who makes sense of the past by examining facts. He also knows how… read more

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15. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B. Stewart

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

By: Julie Zhuo

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

By: Michael Shellenberger

4.18

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. The Stone Age: A History from Beginning to End (Prehistory)

By: Hourly History

4.22

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable history of the Stone Age...Free BONUS Inside!The cave dwellers of the Stone… read more

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  • history
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19. Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street

By: Rick Antonson

3.74

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a t… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. In Any Lifetime

By: Marc Guggenheim

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

A devoted husband defies fate and risks everything to find the one universe where his beloved wife … read more

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21. The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By: D.K. Publishing

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the Second World War - the ep… read more

Similar categories in D.K. Publishing's The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained book and D.K. Publishing's The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • reference

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