15 Best military history books like The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The Myth of Hitler’s Greatest Armoured Defeat by Ben Wheatley

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The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The Myth of Hitler’s Greatest Armoured Defeat

By: Ben Wheatley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This ground-breaking new study of the battles of Kursk and Prokhorovka will transform our understan…

If you liked the military history plot in The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The Myth of Hitler’s Greatest Armoured Defeat by Ben Wheatley , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 by None, Robert A. Doughty

1. The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940

By: None , Robert A. Doughty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In telling the story of Sedan, Doughty brings to life individual soldiers, ridge lines, copses, gun… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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2. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

By: Adam Tooze

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor

3. Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

By: Antony Beevor

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingradreconstructs the Battle of… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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4. It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

By: Robert Kershaw

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Once more reprinted, this excellent work records the German view of Operation 'Market Garden' and t… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history

5. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

By: Wendy Lower

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the n… read more

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6. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

By: James Holland

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more

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7. 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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8. Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership

By: Barry S. Strauss

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

In Masters of Command, Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient wo… read more

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9. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

By: Anne Applebaum

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more

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10. Ring Of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

By: None

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian presents a groundbreaking new history of World War I from the perspectiv… read more

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11. The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination

By: Barry S. Strauss

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

In this story of the most famous assassination in history, "the last bloody day of the [Roman] Repu… read more

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12. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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13. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more

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  • military history
Cover of Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5) by Ben Aaronovitch

14. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.99

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more

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"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

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15. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
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16. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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17. Night Fever

By: Ed Brubaker

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more

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18. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor

19. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman

20. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

By: Rutger Bregman

4.22

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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21. 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
"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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22. The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story

By: Jessie Childs

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war. A g… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil

23. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

By: Rachel Chrastil

3.84

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 by Jonathan Healey

24. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

By: Jonathan Healey

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron by Eberhard Baumgart

25. The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron

By: Eberhard Baumgart

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • military history
Cover of On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War by Holger Afflerbach

26. On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

By: Holger Afflerbach

4.36

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime… read more

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Cover of Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded by David Stahel

27. Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded

By: David Stahel

3.85

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its lead… read more

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Cover of Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War by Saul David

28. Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

By: Saul David

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed historian Saul David, a stunning and gripping new history of the British airborne ex… read more

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  • history
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Cover of Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Prit Buttar

29. Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust

By: Prit Buttar

4.50

Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition

'Centuries Will Not Suffice' explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust an… read more

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  • world war ii
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30. The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The Myth of Hitler’s Greatest Armoured Defeat

By: Ben Wheatley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This ground-breaking new study of the battles of Kursk and Prokhorovka will transform our understan… read more

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Cover of The Defeat of the Damned: The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944 by Douglas E. Nash

31. The Defeat of the Damned: The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944

By: Douglas E. Nash

4.30

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the Third Reich durin… read more

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19 Best history books like The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The Myth of Hitler’s Greatest Armoured Defeat by Ben Wheatley

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The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940

None , Robert A. Doughty

4.17

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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

Adam Tooze

4.20

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Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

Antony Beevor

4.00

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It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944

Robert Kershaw

4.50

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Michael Crichton

3.91

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Stephen King

4.32

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4.51

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4.24

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