12 best-selling history books like The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw

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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45

By: Ian Kershaw

4.14

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a…

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1. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By: Antony Beevor

3.91

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more

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  • history
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  • military history
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  • european history
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2. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe

By: Mark Mazower

4.19

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Profiles the Reich's pre-World War II plans for transforming Eastern Europe, describing the conside… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
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3. Auschwitz

By: Laurence Rees

4.30

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fu… read more

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  • politics
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  • germany
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  • nonfiction
  • european history
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"A diferencia del estalinismo y otras dictaduras que se apropiaron, sin más, del poder, el nazismo se sustentó en una base popular."

-Laurence Rees, Auschwitz

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4. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45

By: Ian Kershaw

4.14

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • war
  • military history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
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6. The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more

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  • history
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  • germany
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  • nonfiction
  • european history
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7. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

By: Harrison E. Salisbury

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II… read more

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  • history
  • war
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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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8. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germ… read more

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  • germany
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  • holocaust
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9. The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe

By: Stephen Harding

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be th… read more

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10. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

By: Andrew Roberts

3.38

Format: None pages,

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than … read more

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11. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964

By: William Manchester

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a … read more

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12. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)

By: Richard J. Evans

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more

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13. The Zimmermann Telegram

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more

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14. 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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15. Inside the Third Reich

By: Albert Speer

4.23

Format: None pages,

Written by Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, the man who kept Germany armed and th… read more

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16. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)

By: Richard J. Evans

4.83

Format: 266 pages,

The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more

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17. Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

By: William L. Shirer , Gordon A. Craig

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,this day… read more

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18. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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20. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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21. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

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"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

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3.91

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4.19

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Laurence Rees

4.30

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Alistair Horne

4.29

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