5 best-selling war books like Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Michael Keith Olson

Cover of Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Michael Keith Olson

Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

By: Michael Keith Olson

4.06

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

“What was life like on a destroyer during World War II? Find out by reading Michael Keith Olson’s s…

If you liked the war plot in Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Michael Keith Olson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose

1. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

2. Battle for Leyte Gulf

By: C. Vann Woodward

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

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Cover of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Paul Fussell, Eugene B. Sledge

3. 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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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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

4. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

By: None

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant… read more

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5. Tin Can Titans: The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron

By: None

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 (Desron 21) to lead his victorious ships… read more

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Cover of Wings of Vengeance: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 2) by Scott Cook

6. Wings of Vengeance: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 2)

By: Scott Cook

4.29

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

There is a price to be paid for treachery… and the balance is due in flame!The United States is ree… read more

Similar categories in Scott Cook's Wings of Vengeance: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 2) book and Michael Keith Olson's Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

  • history
Cover of Wings of Destiny: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 1) by Scott Cook

7. Wings of Destiny: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 1)

By: Scott Cook

4.30

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

A storm lurks over the horizon… a storm that will change the world forever.On December 7, 1941, the… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Where Away: A Modern Odyssey by George Sessions Perry

8. Where Away: A Modern Odyssey

By: George Sessions Perry

4.37

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

On 4th February 1942, the USS Marblehead was with an American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet patrol… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann

9. The Last Paladin

By: P.T. Deutermann

4.58

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping tale of anti-submarine warfare in the World War II Pacific Theater, by a master of milit… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
Cover of The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II by Mike Guardia

10. The Combat Diaries: True Stories from the Frontlines of World War II

By: Mike Guardia

4.40

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From the beaches of Normandy to the shores of Iwo Jima. Harrowing tales of combat…as told by the me… read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy by Hans Hoeller

11. D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy

By: Hans Hoeller

4.52

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the last German veterans of World War II recounts his wartime experiences - with the harrowi… read more

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  • history
  • military history
Cover of Whirlwind: War in the Pacific by Richard   Freeman

12. 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 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Operation Jericho and the Raid That Saved D-Day (Daring Military Operations of World War Two) by Jack Fishman

13. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Operation Jericho and the Raid That Saved D-Day (Daring Military Operations of World War Two)

By: Jack Fishman

4.37

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

The incredible account of the World War Two Allied operation to bomb Amiens Prison and free impriso… read more

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Cover of Condition Red: Destroyer Action in the South Pacific by Frederick J. Bell

14. Condition Red: Destroyer Action in the South Pacific

By: Frederick J. Bell

4.03

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to be trapped upon a ship and constantly under threat of attack from Japanese forc… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • naval history
Cover of Wings of Valor: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 4) by Scott Cook

15. Wings of Valor: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 4)

By: Scott Cook

4.56

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Japan’s landed some heavy blows… but it’s time for the next round and this time… America is hitting… read more

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Cover of Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Michael Keith Olson

16. Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

By: Michael Keith Olson

4.06

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

“What was life like on a destroyer during World War II? Find out by reading Michael Keith Olson’s s… read more

Similar categories in Michael Keith Olson's Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay book and Michael Keith Olson's Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

  • history
  • naval history
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

8 Best history books like Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Michael Keith Olson

Transform Your Habits

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Transform Your Habits

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Wings of Vengeance: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 2)

Scott Cook

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Where Away: A Modern Odyssey

George Sessions Perry

4.37

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19 must-read history books like With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Paul Fussell, Eugene B. Sledge

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Nathaniel Fick

4.19

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