10 Best world war ii books like The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott

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The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

By: Astrid Karlsen Scott

4.40

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. The book that inspired the internatio…

If you liked the world war ii plot in The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of 1222 (Hanne Wilhelmsen, #8) by Marlaine Delargy, Anne Holt

1. 1222 (Hanne Wilhelmsen, #8)

By: Marlaine Delargy , Anne Holt

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

1222 is the story of how a small group of people find themselves stuck in a hotel during an apocaly… read more

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2. The Tunnels of Cu Chi

By: Tom Mangold , John Penycate

4.05

Format: 302 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One of the more remarkable but little-known campaigns of the Vietnam War was fought inside the 200 … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"I could smell the Viet Cong, really, I could smell Charlie. It wasn’t just his body sweat or the urine. There were times when I could hear the breathing, real quiet; you could hear a person breathe, …"

-Tom Mangold, The Tunnels of Cu Chi

Cover of Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis by Tim  Townsend

3. Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis

By: Tim Townsend

3.77

Format: 341 pages,

Mission at Nurembergis Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot by Ron Powers, Robert   Morgan, Robert K. Morgan

4. The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot

By: Ron Powers , Robert Morgan , Robert K. Morgan

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A story of war above 20,000 feet is told by the leader of the first bombing crew to survive twenty-… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

5. Torquemada

By: Howard Fast

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

Bestselling author Howard Fast's suspenseful historical drama of the Spanish Inquisition brings to … read more

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Cover of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt

6. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Cover of The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jeff Shaara

7. The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Jeff Shaara

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of th… read more

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  • war
Cover of Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump by Kate Andersen Brower

8. Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

By: Kate Andersen Brower

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

USA Today Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Wome… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown

9. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Daniel James Brown

4.49

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist by Peter Tunstall

10. The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist

By: Peter Tunstall

4.45

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

“A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeat… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A.J. Baime

11. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

By: A.J. Baime

4.55

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"

-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

Cover of America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two) by Charles Whiting

12. America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

By: Charles Whiting

4.25

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling account of the World War Two exploits of the U.S. Seventh Army, from Sicily to Franc… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin

13. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of… read more

Similar categories in Eric Jay Dolin's Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World book and Astrid Karlsen Scott's The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

  • survival
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

14. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Three Days at the Brink by Bret Baier

15. Three Days at the Brink

By: Bret Baier

4.21

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

“I not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly writt… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Nazi (Joe Johnson #1) by Andrew  Turpin

16. The Last Nazi (Joe Johnson #1)

By: Andrew Turpin

4.00

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

The buried contents of a Nazi train. An aging SS mass-murderer. And the wartime secrets of a U.S. p… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg

17. The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground

By: Justus Rosenberg

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and advent… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth by Nicholas Crane

18. Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth

By: Nicholas Crane

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The world-changing true story of the mission to discover the shape of the earth . . . 'This rollic… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 by James Carl Nelson

19. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

By: James Carl Nelson

3.55

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War I: the story of America’s year-long invas… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Rotterdam (Fernsby's War Book 4) by J.C. Jarvis

20. Rotterdam (Fernsby's War Book 4)

By: J.C. Jarvis

4.69

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Rotterdam, 1940: A city's last stand.In the heart of war-torn Rotterdam, the latest instalment of t… read more

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Cover of The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott

21. The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

By: Astrid Karlsen Scott

4.40

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. The book that inspired the internatio… read more

Similar categories in Astrid Karlsen Scott's The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance book and Astrid Karlsen Scott's The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

  • survival
  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

16 must-read history books like The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott

Transform Your Habits

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

Tom Mangold , John Penycate

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis

Tim Townsend

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot

Ron Powers , Robert Morgan , Robert K. Morgan

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Three Days at the Brink by Bret Baier

Transform Your Habits

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

Brian Kilmeade

4.23

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