7 Top war books like Very Special Intelligence by Patrick Beesly

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Very Special Intelligence

By: Patrick Beesly

4.09

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chronicles the role of the intelligence center in World War II

If you liked the war plot in Very Special Intelligence by Patrick Beesly , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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

1. 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

Similar categories in Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest book and Patrick Beesly's Very Special Intelligence

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"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 Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel

2. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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3. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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  • espionage

4. Rising Tide: The Untold Story Of The Russian Submarines That Fought The Cold War

By: Walter J. Boyne , None

3.37

Format: 40 pages,

The epic, courageous, and disastrous untold stories of the submarine war between the U.S. and the S… read more

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5. The Day of the Triffids

By: John Wyndham

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more

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6. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more

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  • espionage
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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7. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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  • war
"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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8. Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the … read more

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  • war
"Compulsion is the death of friendship."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

"I sew his ears on from time to time, sure."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

"I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

"Rested, shaved, coffee’d, steaked, you will be a different man."

-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)

Cover of H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3) by Patrick O'Brian

9. H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death a… read more

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  • war
"Jack, you've debauched my sloth."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It woul…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the au…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

Cover of The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light by Jean Edward Smith

10. The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light

By: Jean Edward Smith

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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11. Very Special Intelligence

By: Patrick Beesly

4.09

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chronicles the role of the intelligence center in World War II read more

Similar categories in Patrick Beesly's Very Special Intelligence book and Patrick Beesly's Very Special Intelligence

  • espionage
  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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12. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) book and Patrick Beesly's Very Special Intelligence

  • espionage
"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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13. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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  • espionage
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

5 Top espionage books like Very Special Intelligence by Patrick Beesly

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Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

3.00

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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre

4.51

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Very Special Intelligence

Patrick Beesly

4.09

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Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

Mick Herron

4.11

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19 Top fiction books like Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2) by Patrick O'Brian

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Sharpe's Fury (Sharpe, #11)

Bernard Cornwell

4.13

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Sharpe's Escape (Sharpe, #10)

Bernard Cornwell

4.17

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Sharpe's Rifles (Sharpe, #6)

Bernard Cornwell

4.26

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Commodore Hornblower

C.S. Forester

4.25

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