Under Fire
By: Henri Barbusse , Robin Buss , Jay Murray Winter , None
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one o…
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1. Birds Without Wings
By: Louis de Bernières
4.16
Format: 554 pages, Paperback
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with … read more
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- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The dead can read tears."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"Money has no religion except itself."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder"-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
2. The Return of the Soldier
By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more
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- world war i
- classics
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
3. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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- world war i
- classics
- war
4. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
By: Timothy Snyder
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In thi… read more
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- war
5. Under Fire
By: Henri Barbusse , Robin Buss , Jay Murray Winter , None
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one o… read more
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- world war i
- classics
- war
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
By: Molly Guptill Manning
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 mi… read more
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7. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph… read more
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- war
8. Fields of Fire
By: James Webb
4.07
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1978, Webb's classic novel of the Vietnam War follows three soldiers from d… read more
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- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
By: Antony Beevor
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more
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- france
- war
10. Parade's End
By: Ford Madox Ford , Robie MacAuley
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to … read more
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- world war i
- classics
- war
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- historical fiction
11. Das Boot
By: Lothar-Günther Buchheim , None
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is autumn, 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous pat… read more
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- war
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12. A Bridge Too Far
By: Cornelius Ryan , Yes
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Bridge Too Faris Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled th… read more
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- war
13. Life and Fate
By: Vasily Grossman , Robert Chandler
4.09
Format: 156 pages,
Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnik… read more
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14. A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
By: Caroline Moorehead
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a mid… read more
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15. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
By: George Crile
4.36
Format: 544 pages,
s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress & a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the His… read more
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16. The Three Witches and The Master
By: Max Nowaz
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more
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- fiction
"Where’s my uncle?"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
17. 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
18. 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
19. Wife For Sale
By: Tabita Gutu
4.41
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more
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20. Magenta
By: John Payton Foden
4.27
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more
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"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan, please, get to work. Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes. I do. Yo…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed. They silently passed…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
21. SMILES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Silly Seasonal Short Stories
By: Nancy O'Meara
4.30
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
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