Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the r…
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. The Steel Wave (World War II: 1939-1945, #2)
By: Jeff Shaara
3.87
Format: 237 pages,
General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in t… read more
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3. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the r… read more
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4. Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers
By: Larry Alexander
4.56
Format: 200 pages,
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5. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of … read more
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6. Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive… read more
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7. The Korean War
By: Max Hastings
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more
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8. If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
By: George Wilson
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II command… read more
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9. Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
By: Jim Frederick
3.95
Format: 315 pages,
This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infa… read more
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10. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
11. A Soldier of the Great War
By: Mark Helprin
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at wa… read more
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12. The Devil's Trinity
By: Michael Parker
4.26
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more
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"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
13. Strange Meeting
By: Susan Hill
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. 'He was af… read more
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14. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more
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15. Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
By: Charles Henderson , None
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Tells the exciting true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
By: Ray Lambert
4.41
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Da… read more
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