9 Best world war ii books like The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & A Rescue from Nazi Germany (American Heritage) by Robert H. Gillette

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The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & A Rescue from Nazi Germany (American Heritage)

By: Robert H. Gillette

4.16

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

During Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's, Richmond department store founder, William Thalhimer a…

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1. Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)

By: Ken Follett , John Lee

4.19

Format: 37 pages, Audible Audio

Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical e… read more

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  • war
"Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last…"

-Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ‘I have a dream that one day,…"

-Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)

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2. The Hammer of Eden

By: Ken Follett

3.60

Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Hammer of Eden is a pulsating, state-of-the-art suspense thriller from master storyteller Ken F… read more

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3. He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary

By: Roger Moorhouse , Christa Schroeder

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A rare and fascinating insight into Hitler's inner circle - Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing Hitl… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. Homeland (Crown Family Saga, #1)

By: John Jakes

3.98

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

At the dawn of a new century, from the uncontrolled chaos of Chicago's infamous Pullman Strike, to … read more

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5. Memory Wall

By: Anthony Doerr

3.91

Format: 160 pages,

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meanin… read more

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  • literary fiction

6. Bread Upon the Waters

By: Irwin Shaw

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Stands are a self-reliant family in New York City. Far from wealthy they are still reasonably c… read more

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7. A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, tw… read more

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8. One Man and His Dog

By: Anthony Richardson

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Czech airman Jan Bozdech adopts an abandoned Alsatian puppy in the midst of war in 1940, littl… read more

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9. Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust

By: Rita Goldberg

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically,"… read more

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10. Ireland

By: Frank Delaney

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1951, a storyteller arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish… read more

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11. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

By: Blaine Harden

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more

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12. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

By: Stacy Schiff

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. The Edge of Summer

By: Viola Shipman

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the spa… read more

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"Just when you think life is stable, the unknown strikes out of nowhere, and your entire world is poisoned, and you don’t know if life will ever be right again."

-Viola Shipman, The Edge of Summer

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14. The Rabbit Factor

By: Antti Tuomainen

3.79

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

An insurance mathematician’s carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly lose… read more

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15. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • literary fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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16. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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17. Night Angels

By: Weina Dai Randel

4.22

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the Mass Book Awards 2024 From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a pr… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • jewish
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18. The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

By: Ellie Midwood

4.47

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

“We must die standing up for something.” “And what are we standing up for?” “The most importa… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
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19. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II Book 1)

By: Limor Regev

4.46

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66. January, 1945 . … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim  Brady

21. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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22. Swan Light

By: Phoebe Rowe

4.21

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two … read more

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"There were as many parts of a story as there were people who remembered it."

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

"It was the story of the wrecks that hadn't happened, of the lives people got to keep living because of a light in the darkness ..."

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

"But shipwrecks were rarely like that, she’d learned later, proud and upright, perched whimsically on the seafloor. Wrecks were wrecked, sure and violent. Shattered and flattened, rotting edges under …"

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

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23. An Orphan of Scotland (The Maxwell Family Quartet #1)

By: Gwen Kirkwood

4.44

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

Previously published as The Laird of Lochandee. A heartwarming and moving story about secrets,… read more

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24. The Book Haters' Book Club

By: Gretchen Anthony

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover… That was Elliott’s belief an… read more

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25. 1945: The World We Fought For (The Second World War Book 2)

By: Robert Kee

4.25

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

1945, the year in which the Second World War ended, was also the year in which our modern world beg… read more

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26. Hermann Göring: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)

By: Hourly History

3.95

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the dark life of Hermann Göring...Free BONUS Inside!One of Hitler’s most notorious henchme… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The Child Who Lived

By: Ellie Midwood

4.41

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Austria, 1942: In Mauthausen concentration camp, two prisoners dare to fall in love. When a baby is… read more

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  • world war ii
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28. Shotgun Summer

By: Sean Mulcahy

4.47

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

He arrived at the scene; his backup had disappeared. Then he heard the screams. Peeking around the … read more

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29. Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust

By: Jack J. Hersch

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him… read more

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  • survival
  • history
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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30. The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & A Rescue from Nazi Germany (American Heritage)

By: Robert H. Gillette

4.16

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

During Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's, Richmond department store founder, William Thalhimer a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • survival
  • history
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • jewish
  • nazi party
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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31. The Elias Network (Caspian Anderson Book 1)

By: Simon Gervais

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets political thriller in this heart-pounding series debut about two undercover … read more

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9 Best history books like The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & A Rescue from Nazi Germany (American Heritage) by Robert H. Gillette

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He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary

Roger Moorhouse , Christa Schroeder

3.67

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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

3.74

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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

Lucy Adlington

4.09

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo

3.99

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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