9 Best world war ii books like Hacksaw Ridge : The True Story of Desmond Doss by Ronald Kruk

Cover of Hacksaw Ridge : The True Story of Desmond Doss by Ronald Kruk

Hacksaw Ridge : The True Story of Desmond Doss

By: Ronald Kruk

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

According to Doss's account in a documentary film titled "The Contentious Objector", as he rescued …

If you liked the world war ii plot in Hacksaw Ridge : The True Story of Desmond Doss by Ronald Kruk , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Black Like Me

By: John Howard Griffin

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Usi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
"Now you go into oblivion."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"We need a conversion of morals,"

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"Night coming tenderly Black like me."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"In the context of today, this WAS heroism."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

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2. Long Way Gone

By: Charles Martin

4.34

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far g… read more

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"This side of the grave, no one--and I don't care who they are or what sin or sins they have or are committing--is too far gone."

-Charles Martin, Long Way Gone

"No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."

-Charles Martin, Long Way Gone

"That was the night I learned the value of an old hymn. How something so old and "out-of-date" could say words my heart needed to hear and didn't know how to say."

-Charles Martin, Long Way Gone

"Sometimes we have to sing through the scars. Sometimes a song is the only thing that heals the broken places in us. Only thing that breaks the chains on the heart."

-Charles Martin, Long Way Gone

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3. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • history
  • biography
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4. Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks

By: Priscilla Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the pen of one who has been where you are: loving God and longing to hear his voice, Priscilla… read more

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5. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • biography
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Cover of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by None

6. Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a humanizing account of the true-life s… read more

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  • history
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7. The German Girl

By: Armando Lucas Correa

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful debut novel, perfect for fans of Sarah's Key and All the Light… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

8. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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9. The Last Mile (Amos Decker, #2)

By: David Baldacci

2.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detecti… read more

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Cover of Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Anna Quindlen, Anne Frank, Ruud van der Rol, Rian Verhoeven, Tony Langham, None

10. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance

By: Anna Quindlen , Anne Frank , Ruud van der Rol , Rian Verhoeven , Tony Langham , None

4.00

Format: 139 pages,

In over one hundred photographs, many which have never been published, this poignant memoir brings … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • biography
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11. A Rip in Heaven

By: Jeanine Cummins

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was a headline story in the New York Timesand USA Today. It was covered by Court TVand profiled … read more

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  • biography

12. Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge: The gripping true story that inspired the movie

By: Booton Herndon , Doug Batchelor

4.33

Format: 700 pages,

"When we go into combat, Doss, you're not comin' back alive. I'm gonna shoot you myself!" The men o… read more

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13. The Appeal

By: John Grisham

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

John Grisham is now an institution -- a writer whose bestselling status is assured, So assured, in … read more

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14. To Hell and Back

By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy

4.25

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • biography
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

15. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

By: Eric Metaxas

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more

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16. The Stranger

By: Harlan Coben

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. H… read more

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17. The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing

By: Dan Morse

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The full true story of the Lululemon murder and what really happened to Jayna Murray and Brittany N… read more

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18. Devil at My Heels

By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin

3.86

Format: None pages,

The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more

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19. Sergeant York and the Great War

By: Tom Skeyhill

4.17

Format: 427 pages,

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20. The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater

By: Matthew A. Rozell

4.10

Format: 322 pages,

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21. Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard re… read more

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  • history
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22. Only the Dead (Terminal List #6)

By: Jack Carr

4.55

Format: 562 pages, Kindle Edition

Navy SEAL James Reece faces a devastating global conspiracy in this high-adrenaline thriller that i… read more

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23. Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine, #1)

By: David Baldacci

3.93

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: At… read more

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24. The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan

3.87

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more

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  • world war ii
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25. Savage Son (Terminal List #3)

By: Jack Carr

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

In this third high-octane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestsellin… read more

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26. My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

By: Selma van de Perre

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance figh… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • biography
Cover of Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark    Harmon

27. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper (Greenhill Sniper Library) by Lyudmila Pavlichenko

28. Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper (Greenhill Sniper Library)

By: Lyudmila Pavlichenko

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • biography
Cover of Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex  Mar

29. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

By: Alex Mar

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics by Curtis Chang

30. The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics

By: Curtis Chang

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

For all who want to culturally engage but are exhausted by the tension in our families and churches… read more

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31. Hacksaw Ridge : The True Story of Desmond Doss

By: Ronald Kruk

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

According to Doss's account in a documentary film titled "The Contentious Objector", as he rescued … read more

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4.43

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

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