20 Best nonfiction books like Warlords: An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin by Joanna Potts

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Warlords: An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

By: Joanna Potts

4.40

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

WARLORDS recreates in forensic and gripping detail the extraordinary mind games between Churchill, …

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Cover of The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt by William L. Shirer

1. 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
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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2. Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939

By: Don Hagen , Volker Ullrich

4.43

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A major new biography-an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personifica… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would ha…"

-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939

"Hitler's unusually improvisational and personal style of leadership, which created constant responsibility conflicts and an anarchic tangle of offices and portfolios, was anything but an expression o…"

-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939

3. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

By: James L. Swanson

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary

By: Roger Moorhouse , Christa Schroeder

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A rare and fascinating insight into Hitler's inner circle - Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing Hitl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

5. The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)

By: Jack Higgins

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Desperate Adolf Hitler orders the impossible: kidnap or kill Winston Churchill. A disgraced war her… read more

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6. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century… read more

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7. Grant: The Man who Won The Civil War

By: Robin Neillands

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Sam Grant made famous the expression 'unconditional surrender', which is how most of his campaigns … read more

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8. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

By: Bruce Levine

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that confl… read more

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9. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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10. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Cover of Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher   Clark

12. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Cover of A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll

13. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

By: Andrew H. Knoll

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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15. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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16. The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

By: Sarah Churchwell

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Auschwitz Protocol (The Sikora Files #1) by Jack Carnegie

17. The Auschwitz Protocol (The Sikora Files #1)

By: Jack Carnegie

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B086H33G7X Retired US Detective Emil Janowitz lied to his wife f… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
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

18. 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
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19. Driving the Tide (After Dunkirk #6)

By: Lee Jackson

4.53

Format: 552 pages, Kindle Edition

As the Allies prepare to liberate France at the height of World War II, one family will do everythi… read more

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  • world war ii
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20. Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

By: James McMurtry Longo

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsbur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. Five Days That Shocked the World : Eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II

By: Nicholas Best

4.43

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A gripping account of the last days of World War II… It reads like a thriller, informs like a scho… read more

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  • history
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22. 1939: The World We Left Behind

By: Robert Kee

4.07

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

History is based on choices, not truth. The way we see things now is not always how they looked at … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war
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23. The Rise and Fall of Stalin

By: Robert Payne

4.08

Format: 907 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of modern history’s most treacherous and terrifying dictator. Stalin was a man o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. 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

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  • biography
  • military fiction
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  • world war ii
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25. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)

By: Hourly History

4.15

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable life of Robert Oppenheimer... Robert Oppenheimer had a lot resting on his s… read more

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  • history
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26. The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War really ended

By: Nicholas Best

4.33

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

‘This volume sets an example that will be hard to equal’ - Daily Mail On the eleventh hour of the e… read more

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  • history
  • war
Cover of BUNKER 1945 - The Last Ten Days of ADOLF HITLER by Christian Shakespeare

27. BUNKER 1945 - The Last Ten Days of ADOLF HITLER

By: Christian Shakespeare

4.11

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1923 during the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler threatened to blow his brains out. Twenty-… read more

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  • history
Cover of Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot: Defending the Reich Against the RAF and the USAAF by Wolfgang Fischer

28. Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot: Defending the Reich Against the RAF and the USAAF

By: Wolfgang Fischer

4.18

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spen… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
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Cover of Whirlwind: War in the Pacific by Richard   Freeman

29. Whirlwind: War in the Pacific

By: Richard Freeman

4.28

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

In just six months, America turned the rout of Pearl Harbor into the victories of Coral Sea and Mid… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Caen: Anvil of Victory (Alexander McKee Presents: Key Engagements in World War II) by Alexander McKee

30. Caen: Anvil of Victory (Alexander McKee Presents: Key Engagements in World War II)

By: Alexander McKee

3.98

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The epic account of how the fate of Operation Overlord and the Battle of Normandy was determined at… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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31. Warlords: An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

By: Joanna Potts

4.40

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

WARLORDS recreates in forensic and gripping detail the extraordinary mind games between Churchill, … read more

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22 must-read history books like Warlords: An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin by Joanna Potts

Transform Your Habits

The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939

Don Hagen , Volker Ullrich

4.43

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

James L. Swanson

3.78

Transform Your Habits

He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary

Roger Moorhouse , Christa Schroeder

3.67

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6 Top audiobook books like Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals by James McMurtry Longo

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Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder

John Glatt

4.01

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Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States

Bradley W. Hart

3.96

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Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders

Mike Rothmiller

4.09

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