7 Best war books like Stella Bain by Anita Shreve

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Stella Bain

By: Anita Shreve

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When …

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1. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

By: Jeanette Winter

4.17

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was 'Read.'"* --Alia Muhammad Baker Alia Muh… read more

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  • historical
  • war
"Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit."

-Jeanette Winter, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

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2. Little Night

By: Luanne Rice

3.53

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally gripping family drama from beloved New York Times bestseller Luanne Rice Clare Bu… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Shooting at Loons (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #3)

By: Margaret Maron

4.01

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Margaret Maron has garnered both the praise of critics and the raves of satisfied readers for her a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

By: George Packer

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Bost… read more

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  • war
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5. A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army

By: Vasily Grossman , Antony Beevor , Luba Vinogradova

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud … read more

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  • war
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6. The Price of Butcher's Meat (Dalziel & Pascoe, #23)

By: Reginald Hill

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today." --BostonGlobe There is no end to the… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Sahara

By: Michael Palin , Basil Pao

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the S… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Stella Bain

By: Anita Shreve

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When … read more

Similar categories in Anita Shreve's Stella Bain book and Anita Shreve's Stella Bain

  • romance
  • world war i
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Wednesday Daughters

By: Meg Waite Clayton

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

Meg Waite Clayton, nationally bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters,returns with a compassion… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Southern Discomfort (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #2)

By: Margaret Maron

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death - and some ol… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

11. The House I Loved

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author ofSarah's Keyand A Secret Keptcomes an absorbing new nove… read more

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12. Vintage

By: Susan Gloss

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A sparkling debut novel in the vein of The Friday Night Knitting Club, centered around a Midwestern… read more

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13. 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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14. Fobbit

By: David Abrams

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Fobbit \'fa-bit\, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids… read more

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15. High Wages

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A 1930 novel by Persephone Books' most popular writer about a girl who sets up a dress shop. read more

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16. The Excellent Lombards

By: Jane Hamilton

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt… read more

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17. The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

By: Rhonda Riley

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hopeis an unconventional and passionately romantic love story that is as… 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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  • war
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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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  • war
"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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  • 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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Little Night

Luanne Rice

3.53

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Shooting at Loons (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #3)

Margaret Maron

4.01

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The Price of Butcher's Meat (Dalziel & Pascoe, #23)

Reginald Hill

4.22

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Anita Shreve

3.67

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The Tunnels of Cu Chi

Tom Mangold , John Penycate

4.05

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4.20

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Alistair Horne

4.29

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Shelby Foote

3.41

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