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…
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1. 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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"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
2. 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
3. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
By: Ian W. Toll
4.61
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challe… read more
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4. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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5. Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
By: Roy A. Adkins
3.63
Format: None pages,
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6. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
By: James D. Hornfischer
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do … read more
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7. 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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8. Vietnam: A History
By: Stanley Karnow
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced account we have."--Boston Globe. "Superb, balance… read more
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9. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more
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10. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
By: Ian W. Toll
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnip… read more
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11. The First World War
By: John Keegan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more
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12. 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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13. Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)
By: Edmund Morris
4.10
Format: 766 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling readi… read more
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"If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it."-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)
"Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred especially.His radicalism was a matter of energy rather than urgency."-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)
"Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king."-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)
"He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot o…"-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)
14. 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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15. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
By: David Halberstam
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY… read more
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16. 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
17. The Last Battle
By: Cornelius Ryan
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was … read more
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18. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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19. Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story
By: Patrick K. O'Donnell
4.00
Format: 191 pages,
'If I were God, what would you want for Christmas?'' With a thousand-yard stare, a haggard and bloo… read more
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20. The Longest Day
By: Cornelius Ryan
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more
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21. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
By: Max Hastings
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
With an introduction read by Max Hastings. A companion volume to his best-selling Armageddon, Max H… read more
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22. The Nazi Hunters
By: Damien Lewis
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Nazi Huntersis the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's hi… read more
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23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
By: Ian W. Toll
4.59
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a … read more
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27. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
By: Ian W. Toll
4.76
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more
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"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
28. Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
By: John C. McManus
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen… read more
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29. Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
By: Tom Clavin
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times… read more
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30. World War II at Sea: A Global History
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.58
Format: 770 pages, Hardcover
Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book o… read more
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"the battlecruiser HMS Hood, which at 860 feet was the pride of the fleet. While her eight 15-inch guns were the largest then afloat, her Achilles’ heel was her relatively thin armor, which made her m…"-Craig L. Symonds, World War II at Sea: A Global History
31. Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942
By: Richard B. Frank
4.43
Format: 751 pages, Hardcover
In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s popu… read more
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