25 must-read nonfiction books like The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 by Peter Hart

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The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918

By: Peter Hart

4.23

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was u…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 by Peter Hart , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Cover of Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd

2. Passchendaele: A New History

By: Nick Lloyd

4.17

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

The Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and Novem… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

By: Dan Jones

4.27

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

"Extravagance was a political necessity."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

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4. 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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  • world war i
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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5. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

By: Miranda Carter

4.36

Format: 184 pages,

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousin… read more

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  • world war i
  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
Cover of River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon by Buddy Levy

6. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon

By: Buddy Levy

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Conquistadorcomes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Black Hawk Down

By: Mark Bowden

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

8. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

By: Günter K. Koschorrek

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more

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9. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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10. The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era: The End of a Battleship Era?

By: Martin Middlebrook , Patrick Mahoney

4.15

Format: None pages,

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11. The Man From St. Petersburg

By: Ken Follett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manip… read more

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12. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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13. 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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14. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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15. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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16. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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17. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • world war i
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James  Holland

18. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

By: James Holland

4.47

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre

19. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor

20. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Kenneth W. Harl

21. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.00

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."

-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

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22. The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

By: Nick Lloyd

4.30

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysi… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen

23. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it by Stuart Maconie

24. The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it

By: Stuart Maconie

4.32

Format: 299 pages, ebook

'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' Observer It was the spirit of our finest hour, th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait by Gyles Brandreth

25. Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait

By: Gyles Brandreth

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White

26. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

By: Rowland White

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II by James  Holland

27. Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II

By: James Holland

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy l… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds

28. Lincoln and His Admirals

By: Craig L. Symonds

4.22

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook

29. Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

By: Dominic Sandbrook

4.50

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980 the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd

30. The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War

By: Nick Lloyd

4.38

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military his… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918

By: Peter Hart

4.23

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was u… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • nonfiction

25 best-selling history books like The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 by Peter Hart

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.25

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Passchendaele: A New History

Nick Lloyd

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

Deborah Cadbury

4.04

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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Robert K. Massie

3.33

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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

Miranda Carter

4.36

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