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…
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1. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
By: Le Ly Hayslip , Jay Wurts
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Ear… read more
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"The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking."-Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
"In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one…"-Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
"For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our day…"-Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
2. The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
By: Dick Couch , Cliff Hollenbeck
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toug… read more
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"In his Close Quarter Defense School training, Duane Dieter tells the platoon SEALs, “The truth of combat is; to fight is to risk death."-Dick Couch, The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
"Set the highest example. Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection is impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that."-Dick Couch, The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
3. None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
By: Joshua E.S. Phillips
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Sergeant Adam Gray made it home from Iraq only to die in his barracks. For more than three years, r… read more
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4. 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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5. Red Phoenix (Red Phoenix #1)
By: Larry Bond , Patrick Larkin
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Violent riots formented by foreign agents are breaking out in South Korea. Seizing the opportunity,… read more
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6. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Timeis a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and hono… read more
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7. Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble
By: Antony Beevor
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingradreconstructs the Battle of… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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13. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
By: Robert Fisk
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an awa… read more
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14. 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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15. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
By: William Manchester
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a … read more
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16. Year of the Jungle
By: Suzanne Collins , James Proimos
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the… read more
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17. The Battle for the Falklands
By: Max Hastings , Simon Jenkins
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on t… read more
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18. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
By: Peter Paret , Felix Gilbert , Gordon A. Craig
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social … read more
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19. 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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20. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
By: Jane Mayer
3.99
Format: 284 pages,
A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the "War on Terror" In the days … read more
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21. Men at Arms
By: Evelyn Waugh
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdier… read more
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22. 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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23. The Young Lions
By: Irwin Shaw
4.23
Format: 662 pages, Paperback
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fig… read more
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"Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
"This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and It…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
"The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, a…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
"When I went into the Army, I made up my mind that I was putting myself at the Army's disposal. I believe in the war. That doesn't mean I believe in the Army. I don't believe in any army. You don't ex…"-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions
24. Dreadnought
By: Robert K. Massie
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.… read more
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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Stalingrad
By: Vasily Grossman
4.28
Format: 1088 pages, Paperback
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate has been hailed as a twentieth-century War and Peace. However, Life… read more
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"But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. The…"-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad
"There are people who like to ascribe only the basest of motives to the actions of others. This is not always because they act basely themselves; often they would not dream of acting as they suspect o…"-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad
31. Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
By: Michael R. Beschloss
4.22
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of A… read more
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