23 best-selling nonfiction books like Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II by John F. Wukovits

Cover of Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II by John F. Wukovits

Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II

By: John F. Wukovits

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From a top World War II author, the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II by John F. Wukovits , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

1. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By: Erik Larson

4.05

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more

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  • history
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

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2. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By: Caroline Alexander

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shack… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1) by Steve Berry

3. The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)

By: Steve Berry

3.84

Format: 511 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and … read more

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"1. "...All the complicated things in life can be settled over a cup of coffee. A person will tell more of their private life after one good cup of coffee, than after a magnum of Champagne or a quarte…"

-Steve Berry, The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)

Cover of Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick

4. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this New York Times Notable Book and bestseller, the National Book Award-winning author of In th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Alexander Hamilton

By: Ron Chernow

3.77

Format: 32 pages,

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

6. 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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7. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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8. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

By: Bob Drury

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

9. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By: Erik Larson

4.30

Format: 546 pages, ebook

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt

11. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"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

Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

12. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of Armored (Armored, #1) by Mark Greaney

13. Armored (Armored, #1)

By: Mark Greaney

4.37

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney’s Audible Original drama, Ar… read more

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Cover of Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II by Dan Hampton

14. Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II

By: Dan Hampton

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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15. Front Sight

By: Stephen Hunter

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

This collection of three interconnected novellas follows each generation of the iconic Swagger fami… read more

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16. Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

By: David Roberts

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

17. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex Kershaw

18. 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
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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19. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

By: Antony Beevor

4.21

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more

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  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
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"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"

-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Cover of Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin

20. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

By: Tom Clavin

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Savage Son (Terminal List #3) by Jack Carr

21. Savage Son (Terminal List #3)

By: Jack Carr

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

In this third high-octane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestsellin… read more

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Cover of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival by Tom Clavin

22. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

By: Tom Clavin

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.On August 13, 1944,… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
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23. 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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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

24. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

By: Buddy Levy

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West by Will Grant

25. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West

By: Will Grant

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi

26. Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

By: Azad Cudi

4.41

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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27. Basil's War

By: Stephen Hunter

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A British spy goes behind enemy lines to crack a secret code in this “highly entertaining World War… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
Cover of The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik

28. The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II

By: Mark Obmascik

4.33

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tra… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft by Caroline    Johnson

29. Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft

By: Caroline Johnson

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, unique insider’s view of what it’s like to be a woman aviator in today’s US Navy—from pedi… read more

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  • aviation
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher by Lee Child

30. Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher

By: Lee Child

3.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for … read more

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Cover of Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II by John F. Wukovits

31. Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II

By: John F. Wukovits

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From a top World War II author, the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war… read more

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  • military history
  • world war ii
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23 must-read history books like Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II by John F. Wukovits

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4.05

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