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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1. Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.24
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the inspiring story of … read more
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- history
- biography
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- world war ii
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2. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.30
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realit… read more
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- history
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- world war ii
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"No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
3. A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us
By: Marcus Brotherton
4.32
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
The author of We Who Are Alive and Remain presents remembrances from the families of the soldiers o… read more
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- history
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- war
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- world war ii
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4. City of Women
By: David R. Gillham
3.79
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women… read more
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- world war ii
- war
"So you mean to say that you’ve become an accomplished thief."-David R. Gillham, City of Women
"I saw your face, and I knew that I simply had to hear the sound of your voice."-David R. Gillham, City of Women
"Thin and threadbare as a ghost, she wears only mourning black. Looking into her eyes is like staring through the windows of a bombed-out building."-David R. Gillham, City of Women
"She has given him her breath and the pulse of her body. Given him her passion, her hatred, and her love, her past and future. Given him all that is essential in her, so that she will never be whole w…"-David R. Gillham, City of Women
5. The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1)
By: Jeff Shaara
4.16
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil … read more
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- world war ii
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- military history
"control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and"-Jeff Shaara, The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1)
6. Conversations with Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers
By: Cole C. Kingseed
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company—the now… read more
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- world war ii
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7. War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
By: Sharon E. McKay , Daniel LaFrance
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is the graphic novel edition of Sharon McKay's novel set in Uganda, where Joseph Kony's Lord's… read more
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- war
8. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
9. Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)
By: Alan Furst
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is re… read more
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- world war ii
- war
10. Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
By: Don Malarkey , Bob Welch
2.62
Format: 224 pages,
Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the … read more
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- history
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- world war ii
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11. 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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- history
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- nonfiction
12. 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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- world war ii
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13. 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
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14. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters
3.95
Format: 288 pages,
They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more
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- world war ii
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15. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
By: Siegfried Sassoon
3.80
Format: 384 pages,
An irreverent look at British military leaders during WW1, written by the Hawthornden-Prize winning… read more
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16. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
By: Elizabeth M. Norman
4.27
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," h… read more
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17. 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
18. The Pacific
By: Hugh Ambrose
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind th… read more
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19. How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
By: Rosa Brooks
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is e… read more
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20. Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends
By: William Guarnere , Robyn Post , Edward Heffron
3.96
Format: None pages,
Tom Hanks introduces the "remarkable" (Publishers Weekly) story of two inseparable friends and sold… read more
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21. Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
By: Stephen E. Ambrose , David Kenyon Webster
4.65
Format: None pages,
David Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie,… read more
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22. Taming Flame
By: Therisa Peimer
4.30
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more
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"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
23. 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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24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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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"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
28. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
29. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.11
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more
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30. Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers
By: Erik Dorr
4.48
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controv… read more
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31. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
By: Adam Makos
4.53
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story… read more
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