11 Best nonfiction books like Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics) by Fred Majdalany

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Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

By: Fred Majdalany

4.04

Format: 292 pages, ebook

Winter, 1944. The Allied Forces are driving through Italy. But about halfway between Naples a…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics) by Fred Majdalany , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches by Stephen E. Ambrose

1. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realit… read more

Similar categories in Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command…"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

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2. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

By: Robert Hughes

4.08

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"He had been always escaping, always rebelling, always fighting against authority, and always being flogged. There had been a whole lifetime of torment such as this; forty-two years of it; and there h…"

-Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

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3. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

By: William L. Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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4. The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II

By: Charles B. MacDonald

4.35

Format: None pages,

From the first landings at Casablanca straight through to the crossing of the Elbe River and VE-Day… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war

5. HHhH

By: Laurent Binet

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Deux parachutistes tchecoslovaques envoyes par Londres sont charges d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich,… read more

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6. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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7. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

By: William Craig

4.25

Format: None pages,

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more

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8. The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By: Richard Flanagan

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. Richard Flana… read more

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9. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

Similar categories in Katja Hoyer's Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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10. Snow Country

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.71

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While work… read more

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  • war
"I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives."

-Sebastian Faulks, Snow Country

Cover of Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two) by Charles Whiting

11. Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

By: Charles Whiting

4.27

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of the most infamous massacre of American soldiers in World War Two.An ideal book for peo… read more

Similar categories in Charles Whiting's Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two) book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America by Michael Benson

12. Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America

By: Michael Benson

3.97

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Goodreads Top Nonfiction of 2022 The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the… read more

Similar categories in Michael Benson's Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

13. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Clockmaker's Secret (Slim Hardy Mysteries, #2) by Jack Benton

14. The Clockmaker's Secret (Slim Hardy Mysteries, #2)

By: Jack Benton

4.22

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his … read more

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15. 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

Similar categories in Max Hastings's Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II by Wilhelm Johnen

16. Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II

By: Wilhelm Johnen

4.22

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

"The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he op… read more

Similar categories in Wilhelm Johnen's Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rogue Force (Troy Stark Thriller #1) by Jack Mars

17. Rogue Force (Troy Stark Thriller #1)

By: Jack Mars

4.28

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

When elite Navy SEAL Troy Stark is forced into retirement for his dubious respect for authority, he… read more

Similar categories in Jack Mars's Rogue Force (Troy Stark Thriller #1) book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • military fiction
Cover of Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman

18. Stalingrad

By: Vasily Grossman

4.28

Format: 1088 pages, Paperback

Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate has been hailed as a twentieth-century War and Peace. However, Life… read more

Similar categories in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • world war ii
  • war
"But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. The…"

-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad

"There are people who like to ascribe only the basest of motives to the actions of others. This is not always because they act basely themselves; often they would not dream of acting as they suspect o…"

-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad

Cover of Target One (The Spy Game #1) by Jack Mars

19. Target One (The Spy Game #1)

By: Jack Mars

4.10

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Jacob Snow—elite soldier-turned-CIA agent, haunted by his tortured past—is one of the CIA’s greates… read more

Similar categories in Jack Mars's Target One (The Spy Game #1) book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • military fiction
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

20. 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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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defence of the Homeland by Norbert Hannig

21. Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defence of the Homeland

By: Norbert Hannig

4.25

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Herr Norbert Hanning’s wartime career makes for fascinating and highly informative reading on an as… read more

Similar categories in Norbert Hannig's Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defence of the Homeland book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • world war ii
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of No Fear: The true story of my deadly life after the SAS by Nigel Ely

22. No Fear: The true story of my deadly life after the SAS

By: Nigel Ely

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of deadly life after the SAS. In No Fear, soldier Nigel Ely takes us from his high o… read more

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Cover of Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics) by Fred Majdalany

23. Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

By: Fred Majdalany

4.04

Format: 292 pages, ebook

Winter, 1944. The Allied Forces are driving through Italy. But about halfway between Naples a… read more

Similar categories in Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics) book and Fred Majdalany's Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics)

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of SEVEN DAYS OF INFAMY accounts of Pearl Harbor from those who watched it unfold (Nicholas Best World War II History) by Nicholas Best

24. SEVEN DAYS OF INFAMY accounts of Pearl Harbor from those who watched it unfold (Nicholas Best World War II History)

By: Nicholas Best

4.45

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

A COMPELLING LOOK AT THE TURNING POINT OF WORLD WAR II TOLD BY THOSE WHO WATCHED IT UNFOLD.‘A brisk… read more

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13 Best history books like Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell Military Classics) by Fred Majdalany

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

Robert Hughes

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II

Charles B. MacDonald

4.35

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18 must-read history books like Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II by Wilhelm Johnen

Transform Your Habits

The First And The Last

Adolf Galland

2.74

Transform Your Habits

Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II

Wilhelm Johnen

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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

Peter Tunstall

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

Charles Whiting

4.17

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