The Doolittle Raid: America's Daring First Strike Against Japan
By: Carroll V. Glines
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The complete account of one of the biggest gambles and most harrowing stories of courage to come ou…
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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.91
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more
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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
2. Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
By: James M. Scott
4.47
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken … Target Tokyo … read more
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3. Playing for Pizza
By: John Grisham
3.52
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship gam… read more
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"And with that they passed another little milestone, took another step together. From flirting, to casual sex, to a more intense variety. From quick e-mails to much longer chats by phone. From a long-…"-John Grisham, Playing for Pizza
4. Birdsong
By: Sebastian Faulks
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more
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5. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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6. 23 Minutes In Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment
By: Bill Wiese
3.59
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
"My sincere hope is that this book is the closest you will ever come to experiencing hell for yours… read more
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7. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By: Gregory A. Freeman
4.36
Format: None pages,
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified docume… read more
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8. Day of Infamy
By: Walter Lord
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Day of Infamy began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan… read more
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9. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
10. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
By: John William Polidori , Robert Morrison
4.00
Format: None pages,
John Polidori's classic tale The Vampyre(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition t… read more
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11. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
By: Mark Bowden
3.66
Format: None pages,
Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cart… read more
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12. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
By: Craig Nelson
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of theevent that chan… read more
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13. 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
14. Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
By: William Marvel , None , None
3.64
Format: 288 pages,
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15. The Seven Storey Mountain
By: Thomas Merton , Robert Giroux , William H. Shannon
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influenti… read more
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16. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos
4.36
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more
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"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
17. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
By: Hampton Sides
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. T… read more
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18. Killing Jesus: A History
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard'… read more
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19. China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
By: Stephen E. Ambrose , Eugene B. Sledge
4.28
Format: None pages,
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20. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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21. Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944
By: Thomas J. Cutler
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval bat… read more
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22. Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island
By: John F. Wukovits
4.18
Format: 578 pages,
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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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
26. Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
By: Chris Wallace
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying beh… read more
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27. The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death
By: Lee Strobel
4.36
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Bestselling and award-winning author Lee Strobel interviews experts about the evidence for the afte… read more
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"A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with verandas, where people would sit in the evenings with their family to gree…"-Lee Strobel, The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death
"A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with verandas, where people would sit in the evenings with their family to grea…"-Lee Strobel, The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death
28. Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.20
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In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell… read more
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29. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
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With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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30. I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
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4.04
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31. The Doolittle Raid: America's Daring First Strike Against Japan
By: Carroll V. Glines
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The complete account of one of the biggest gambles and most harrowing stories of courage to come ou… read more
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