12 Best fiction books like The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force by Walter J. Boyne

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The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

By: Walter J. Boyne

3.84

Format: 626 pages, Hardcover

The Wild Blue

If you liked the fiction plot in The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force by Walter J. Boyne , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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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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  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • military fiction
"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. 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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  • fiction
  • adventure
"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 Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7) by Lee Child

3. Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)

By: Lee Child

3.94

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's mov… read more

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  • fiction

4. The Rainmaker

By: John Grisham

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

John Grisham's five novels -- A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and The Cham… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The First And The Last

By: Adolf Galland

2.74

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaf… read more

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  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • military fiction
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6. Fields of Fire

By: James Webb

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1978, Webb's classic novel of the Vietnam War follows three soldiers from d… read more

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  • military fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. The Client

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...El… read more

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8. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

9. Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)

By: Homer Hickam

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over … read more

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10. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

By: Giles Milton

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secre… read more

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11. Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

By: Mary Jennings Hegar

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medeva… read more

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Cover of Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

12. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) book and Walter J. Boyne's The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3) by John Grisham

13. A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)

By: John Grisham

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when t… read more

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  • fiction
"I can’t believe you would represent a killer like that Jake. I thought you were one of us. xxx ‘Gotta have a lawyer, Helen. You can’t put the boy in the gas chamber if he doesn’t have a lawyer. Surel…"

-John Grisham, A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)

Cover of Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24) by Lee Child

14. Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

By: Lee Child

3.96

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” Th… read more

Similar categories in Lee Child's Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24) book and Walter J. Boyne's The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of Code Red (Mitch Rapp #22) by Kyle Mills

15. Code Red (Mitch Rapp #22)

By: Kyle Mills

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Rapp makes a mortal enemy of Russia in this high-octane and “ripped straight from next week’s… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Mills's Code Red (Mitch Rapp #22) book and Walter J. Boyne's The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

  • fiction
Cover of Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie

16. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

By: Robert Leckie

4.22

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Cover of The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2) by Chris Hadfield

17. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

By: Chris Hadfield

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more

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  • military fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

By: Bill O'Reilly

3.67

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more

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19. Iwo, 26 Charlie: A Novel (P. T. Deutermann WWII Novels)

By: P.T. Deutermann

4.61

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

P. T. Deutermann is a contemporary master of World War II military fiction: writing about the lives… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Commodore

By: P.T. Deutermann

4.51

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

P. T. Deutermann's previous novels of the US Navy in World War II - Pacific Glory, Ghosts of Bungo … read more

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  • adventure
  • military fiction
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force by Walter J. Boyne

21. The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

By: Walter J. Boyne

3.84

Format: 626 pages, Hardcover

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  • historical fiction

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4.07

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4.21

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4.02

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Anton Myrer

4.39

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Karl Marlantes

3.30

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