13 Top history books like Lancaster Men: The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees

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Lancaster Men: The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command

By: Peter Rees

4.25

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who …

If you liked the history plot in Lancaster Men: The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Silver Locomotive Mystery (The Railway Detective #6)

By: Edward Marston

3.98

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

This is the Railway Detective's puzzling new case. An exquisitely designed silver coffee-pot in the… read more

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2. Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Paperback

In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more

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"Time belongs to the Tower."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"A broken spoon may become a fork."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

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3. One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

By: Lee Child

4.24

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops h… read more

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"I went to college. West Point is technically a college."

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

"I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. B…"

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

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4. Wizard and Glass

By: Stephen King , Dave McKean

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Roland of Gilead and his fellow pilgrims determine to reach the Dark Tower, but their quest is rife… read more

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5. The Last Enemy

By: Richard Hillary

4.25

Format: 159 pages,

THE LAST ENEMY recounts Richard Hillary's experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, i… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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6. Tobruk

By: Peter FitzSimons

3.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Tobruk" narrates the taking of Tobruk as part of a general thrust in North Africa by Allied forces… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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7. Brave Men

By: Ernie Pyle , G. Kurt Piehler

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went alo… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

8. The Cruel Sea

By: Nicholas Monsarrat

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World War II, this is the story of the British ships Comp… read more

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9. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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10. The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4)

By: Tom Clancy

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so… read more

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11. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more

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12. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

By: James R. Hansen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. A… read more

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13. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

By: None , Ben R. Rich

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more

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14. 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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15. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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16. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • war
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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17. The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)

By: Jack Carr

4.28

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the Ame… read more

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  • war
"Revisionist views of the Constitution by opportunistic politicians and unelected judges with agendas that reinterpret the Bill of Rights to take power away from the people and consolidate it at the f…"

-Jack Carr, The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)

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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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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19. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

By: Max Hastings

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operati… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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20. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

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21. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2) by Stephen Fry

22. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

By: Stephen Fry

4.32

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends, and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept …"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he broug…"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

Cover of Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby

23. Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.35

Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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24. RAAF Black Cats: The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine

By: Robert Cleworth

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missin… read more

Similar categories in Robert Cleworth's RAAF Black Cats: The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine book and Peter Rees's Lancaster Men: The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command

  • world war ii
  • aviation
Cover of Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by John  Nichol

25. Spitfire: A Very British Love Story

By: John Nichol

4.50

Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER WHSmith NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018'The best book you… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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26. Saga Land

By: Richard Fidler

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friends… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Ypres, 1917: A Personal Account (Full Pack — A Private’s War) by NORMAN GLADDEN

27. Ypres, 1917: A Personal Account (Full Pack — A Private’s War)

By: NORMAN GLADDEN

4.26

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling eyewitness account of the bloody battle of Passchendaele. Perfect for fans of Lyn Ma… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. To Sing of War

By: Catherine McKinnon

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrill… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
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29. The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean

By: Mike Carlton

4.56

Format: 616 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With s… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Lancaster Men: The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees

30. Lancaster Men: The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command

By: Peter Rees

4.25

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of Endurance: The Toby Price Story by Toby Price

31. Endurance: The Toby Price Story

By: Toby Price

4.54

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

The Australian bush has conjured up some crazy legends, but the rise and rise of two-time Dakar cha… read more

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The Last Enemy

Richard Hillary

4.25

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Tobruk

Peter FitzSimons

3.02

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Brave Men

Ernie Pyle , G. Kurt Piehler

3.83

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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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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Pip Williams

4.07

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Emma Espiner

4.31

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Emily Perkins

3.43

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