5 must-read biography books like The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1) by Winston S. Churchill

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The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)

By: Winston S. Churchill

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed su…

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1. 50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books (50 Classics)

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From Abraham Lincoln to Nelson Mandela, and from Aristotle to George Orwell, 50 POLITICS CLASSICS d… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta

2. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy

By: Eri Hotta

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective an… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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3. The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40

By: William Manchester

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Lion 3: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (The Last Lion, #3) by William Manchester, Paul   Reid

4. The Last Lion 3: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (The Last Lion, #3)

By: William Manchester , Paul Reid

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lionpicks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

By: William Manchester

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

s/t: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 When Winston Spencer Churchill was born … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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6. The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)

By: Winston S. Churchill

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed su… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

7. The End of History and the Last Man

By: Francis Fukuyama

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more

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8. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme

By: John Keegan

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more

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9. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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10. On War

By: Michael Eliot Howard , Carl von Clausewitz , Peter Paret

3.75

Format: None pages,

Carl von Clausewitz's On Warhas been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great boo… read more

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11. Strategy

By: B.H. Liddell Hart

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The classic book on strategy by one of the foremost military thinkers of the twentieth century, Str… read more

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12. The Bridge Over the River Kwai

By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a p… read more

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13. Churchill: A Life

By: Martin Gilbert

4.80

Format: 360 pages,

It is impossible to understand the Second World War without understanding Winston Churchill, the bo… read more

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14. The Second World War

By: John Keegan

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the … read more

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15. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"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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18. 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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  • war
"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

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19. SMILES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Silly Seasonal Short Stories

By: Nancy O'Meara

4.30

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

None read more

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20. Gilded Tower (Double-Blind #2)

By: J. McCoy

4.32

Format: 942 pages, Kindle Edition

Corruption. Power struggle. Malevolent deities. All this is topped off by a mysterious golden to… read more

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21. Churchill: Walking with Destiny

By: Andrew Roberts

4.36

Format: 1105 pages, Hardcover

A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from pr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

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3.96

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3.76

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Michael Parker

4.26

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4.30

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