The Railway Man
By: Eric Lomax
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and w…
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1. 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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- history
- biography
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
2. 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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- history
- biography
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
3. The Railway Man
By: Eric Lomax
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and w… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- world war ii
- autobiography
- nonfiction
4. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
By: Mark Mazzetti
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
5. Infantry Attacks
By: Erwin Rommel , Manfred Rommel , Gustave E. Kiddé
3.80
Format: 384 pages,
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- war
6. 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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7. To Hell and Back
By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy
4.25
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- world war ii
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
8. The Devil's Trinity
By: Michael Parker
4.26
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more
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"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity
9. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
By: Max Hastings
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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10. Black Dove, White Raven
By: Elizabeth Wein
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A story of survival, subterfuge, espionage, and identity. Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery… read more
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11. Dogs of War
By: Rico Renzi , Guy Major , Nathan Fox , Sheila Keenan
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sheila Keenan's captivating stories, paired with Nathan Fox's stunning art, bring the heroic milita… read more
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12. The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped thei… read more
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13. 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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- world war ii
- war
"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
14. It Was the War of the Trenches
By: Jacques Tardi , Kim Thompson
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacqu… read more
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15. Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
By: Charles Henderson , None
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Tells the exciting true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam… read more
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16. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- war
17. 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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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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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- nonfiction
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- war
21. The Day War Came
By: Nicola Davies
4.39
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately ho… read more
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