12 Top military fiction books like Red Star Against The Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front by Vasily Emelianenko

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Red Star Against The Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front

By: Vasily Emelianenko

3.99

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the extraordinary story of Vasily B. Emelianenko, the veteran pilot of one of the Soviet Un…

If you liked the military fiction plot in Red Star Against The Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front by Vasily Emelianenko , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich

By: Ben H. Shepherd

4.04

Format: 664 pages, Hardcover

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally de… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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2. The Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

4.01

Format: 703 pages, Hardcover

Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Cover of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

3. 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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  • aviation
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • history
"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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4. American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)

By: Vince Flynn

4.25

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Mitch Rapp is a gifted college athlete who just wants retribution for the Pan Am Lockerbie attack. … read more

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"The shock, the pain, the agonizing self-pity over the fact that he would never see her again, never hold her, never smell her, the list went on, and on, and on like some pounding surf that threatened…"

-Vince Flynn, American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)

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5. 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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6. The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

By: Lee Child

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watc… read more

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"You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be."

-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

"He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both …"

-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

Cover of The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2) by Ian W. Toll

7. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

By: Ian W. Toll

4.61

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challe… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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8. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

9. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Alfred Lansing

4.44

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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10. The Great Escape

By: Paul Brickhill

4.03

Format: 320 pages,

One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hun… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre

11. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Cole C. Kingseed, Dick Winters

12. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters

3.95

Format: 288 pages,

They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp, #2) by Vince Flynn

13. Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp, #2)

By: Vince Flynn

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Rapp hunts terrorists responsible for Pan Am attack on 270 civilians. But on his next target, gunme… read more

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Cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

14. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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15. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

Cover of What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

16. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

4.14

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

17. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

By: Günter K. Koschorrek

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more

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18. The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

By: Geoffrey C. Ward , Ken Burns

3.62

Format: 280 pages,

The individuals featured in this audiobook are not historians or scholars. They are ordinary men an… read more

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19. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward , Ken Burns

4.45

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts… read more

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20. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

21. Secret War

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Gabriele Dell'Otto

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Starring Wolverine, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Captain America, Black Widow, Luke Cage and more! Brian … read more

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22. Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45

By: Prit Buttar

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hi… read more

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Cover of Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) by Michael    Connelly

23. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

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Cover of Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James  Holland

24. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar

25. Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943

By: Prit Buttar

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this detailed and engrossing accou… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll

26. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

By: Ian W. Toll

4.76

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"

-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

Cover of Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons

27. Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.44

Format: 780 pages, Kindle Edition

The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great st… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Luck of the Draw

By: Frank Murphy

4.22

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and und… read more

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  • aviation
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. The Silver Waterfall

By: Kevin Miller

4.31

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

In the desolate middle of the largest ocean on earth, two great navies approached, one bent on conc… read more

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  • aviation
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) by Michael    Connelly

30. The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)

By: Michael Connelly

4.47

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the… read more

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31. Red Star Against The Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front

By: Vasily Emelianenko

3.99

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the extraordinary story of Vasily B. Emelianenko, the veteran pilot of one of the Soviet Un… read more

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  • aviation
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • history

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4.01

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4.18

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