11 Top history books like The Red Line by John Nichol

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The Red Line

By: John Nichol

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-16 English HarperCollins UK From best-selling author of Tail-End Cha…

If you liked the history plot in The Red Line by John Nichol , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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2. Paper Money

By: Ken Follett

3.38

Format: 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Ba… read more

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"to him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game"

-Ken Follett, Paper Money

Cover of Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler's Mightiest Warship by Patrick Bishop

3. Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler's Mightiest Warship

By: Patrick Bishop

4.15

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler’s most terrifying battleship – the legendary Tirpitz… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11) by Lee Child

4. Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

By: Lee Child

4.22

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night… read more

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"Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything."

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

"Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds o…"

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

Cover of The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10) by Lee Child

5. The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

By: Lee Child

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watc… read more

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"You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be."

-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

"He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both …"

-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

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6. Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)

By: Lee Child

4.19

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they… read more

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"I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence."

-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)

"It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of g…"

-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)

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

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

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8. Vulcan 607

By: Rowland White

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bo… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12) by Lee Child

9. Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)

By: Lee Child

3.95

Format: None pages,

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reac… read more

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10. Azincourt

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought by two badly matched armies that met… read more

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11. Jackdaws

By: Ken Follett

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needleand The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett once again… read more

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12. The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL

By: Eric Greitens

2.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man's story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a hum… read more

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13. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more

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14. Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

By: Gregg Jones

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find … read more

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15. Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

By: Adam Makos

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Unbrokenand The Boys in the Boatcomes an unforgettable tale of courage from America'… read more

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16. One False Move (Myron Bolitar #5)

By: Harlan Coben

3.95

Format: None pages,

She's smart, beautiful, and she doesn't need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolita… read more

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17. The Red Line

By: None

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of the disastrous 10,000 bomber raid on Hitler's lair, told for the first and fi… read more

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18. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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19. This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

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20. 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
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. V2: A Novel of World War II

By: Robert Harris

3.91

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
Cover of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

22. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By: Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure by Jason Fox

23. Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure

By: Jason Fox

4.12

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The ground-breaking new book from former Special Boat Services Sergeant Jason Fox, star of Channel … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Churchill's Band of Brothers: WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals by Damien Lewis

24. Churchill's Band of Brothers: WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals

By: Damien Lewis

4.39

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

On the night of June 13th, 1944, a twelve-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objec… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dead at First Sight (Roy Grace, #15) by Peter James

25. Dead at First Sight (Roy Grace, #15)

By: Peter James

4.14

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

A man waits at London Airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atl… read more

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Cover of Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings

26. 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 Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner by Mike Bannister

27. Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner

By: Mike Bannister

4.54

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

October 24th 2023 will mark 20 years since Concorde disappeared from our skies. Yet still Mike Bann… read more

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  • aviation
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Typhoon

By: Mike Sutton

4.40

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who… read more

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  • aviation
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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29. Confessions of a Phantom Pilot

By: Tug Wilson

4.62

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The Confessions of a Phantom Pilot’ is the true story of a young RAF pilot who gets his dream to f… read more

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Cover of The Red Line by John  Nichol

30. The Red Line

By: John Nichol

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-16 English HarperCollins UK From best-selling author of Tail-End Cha… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning by Martin W. Bowman

31. The Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning

By: Martin W. Bowman

4.30

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

The early 1950s were a boom time for British aviation. The lessons of six years of war had been lea… read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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Patrick Bishop

4.15

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

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Rowland White

4.04

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Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

4.23

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

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

James Holland

4.47

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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Antony Beevor

4.21

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