PT 105 (Bluejacket Books)
By: James K. Keresey
4.27
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water d…
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1. The Forgotten Soldier
By: Guy Sajer
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Forgotten Soldier recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the ey… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- military history
"The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
"And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience."-Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
2. Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
By: Eugene B. Fluckey
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew memb… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- military history
3. 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
- historical
- 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
4. Outland
By: Dennis E. Taylor
3.86
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
"When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six university students and their experimenta… read more
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5. Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
By: William Marvel , None , None
3.64
Format: 288 pages,
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6. Steel Boat Iron Hearts: A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505
By: None , None
4.20
Format: 251 pages,
Hans Goebeler is known as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat… read more
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8. Fin Gall (The Norsemen Saga, #1)
By: James L. Nelson
3.92
Format: None pages,
852 A.D. For centuries, the Vikings have swept out of the Norse countries and fallen on England, Ir… read more
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9. U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific
By: James D. Horan , Gerold Frank , None
0.00
Format: 400 pages,
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10. I Flew for the Führer
By: Heinz Knoke
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Heinz Knoke was one of Nazi Germany's outstanding pilots, and this dramatic record of his experienc… read more
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11. You'll Be Sor-ree: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War
By: None
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, AL, when he plunged into the jungles o… read more
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12. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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13. 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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14. The Kaiju Preservation Society
By: John Scalzi
3.99
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more
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"I lift things."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"So we’re the monster police, too?"-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
15. Starter Villain
By: John Scalzi
4.16
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more
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"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
16. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
17. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
18. Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.29
Format: 17 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 16 hours and 57 minutes Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, ep… read more
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"Subtlety: I no haz it."-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
"Sadly, it was like most political arguments. No one was willing to debate their base assumptions or justify them or compromise on them. The simple tactic being that if you repeated your assertion oft…"-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
"We'd gotten onto the concept or morality and Frida had just asked Theresa how she could have any sense of morality without a deity to define what was or was not moral. [...] "What deities give you ar…"-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
19. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
By: Alex Kershaw
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decora… read more
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- history
- historical
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
20. Roadkill
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.09
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Three 20-somethings are all that stands between an otherworldly threat and the survival of Earth in… read more
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21. Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940–1949
By: Erhard Steiniger
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II. read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
22. Earthside (Quantum Earth, #2)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.02
Format: 8 pages, Audible Audio
The fate of mankind is in the hands of a group of 20-something science nerds in the sequel to Outla… read more
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23. War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941–1945
By: James Sidney Lucas
3.70
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces sto… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- military history
24. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
By: Rachel Maddow
4.32
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House: the wild crimes, audacious c… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"Agnew was like Nixon's id -- without the burden of much actual knowledge or curiosity or responsibility to the country at large."-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
"I had turned over a log and exposed to the light a scurrying colony of unpleasant creatures whose only reaction was one of annoyance that I had been so crass as to disturb their settled way of life. …"-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
"It is a rare man or woman who is ever really changed by ascension to high office, or tempered by the solemnity of the oaths they have sworn or by the national duties they have shouldered. And Spiro A…"-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
25. The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
By: Pierre Clostermann
4.57
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
'THE BIG SHOW is as close as you'll ever get to fighting for your life from the cockpit of a Spitfi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- military history
26. Twenty-Two on Peleliu: Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps
By: Peter Margaritis
4.45
Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir of a tough childhood—and tough combat—by an “adventurous, lively, outspoken, opinionated” … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the Clouds of the Owen Stanleys 1942
By: David W. Cameron
4.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australia… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.38
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more
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29. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- history
30. PT 105 (Bluejacket Books)
By: James K. Keresey
4.27
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water d… read more
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- historical
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
31. Constituent Service: A Third District Story
By: John Scalzi
3.92
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The aliens are here . . . and they want municipal services! Ashley Perrin is fresh out of colleg… read more
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