21 Top nonfiction books like Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings

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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor

2. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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3. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By: Antony Beevor

3.91

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2) by Ian W. Toll

4. 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

Similar categories in Ian W. Toll's The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2) book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Conquest of Gaul by S.A. Handford, Gaius Julius Caesar, Jane F. Gardner, Aulus Hirtius

5. The Conquest of Gaul

By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more

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  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor

6. 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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1) by Ian Kershaw

7. Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Hitler, #1)

By: Ian Kershaw

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Re… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

8. 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

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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9. The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

The Battle of the Atlantic was -- though often overlooked -- crucial to the Allied victory. If the … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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10. The Second World War

By: Antony Beevor

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier hist… read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's The Second World War book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor

11. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

By: Antony Beevor

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings

12. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to … read more

Similar categories in Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • germany
  • military history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Hitler, #2) by Ian Kershaw

13. Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Hitler, #2)

By: Ian Kershaw

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The New Yorkerdeclared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to defini… read more

Similar categories in Ian Kershaw's Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (Hitler, #2) book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan, Yes

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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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

15. The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau

By: Alex Kershaw

3.97

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The riveting true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War… read more

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16. Inside the Third Reich

By: Albert Speer

4.23

Format: None pages,

Written by Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, the man who kept Germany armed and th… read more

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17. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

By: Thomas E. Ricks

4.50

Format: None pages,

This is the Story of The American Military Adventure in Iraq. The Heart of the story Fiasco has to … read more

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18. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

By: William Craig

4.25

Format: None pages,

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more

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19. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

By: Adam Hochschild

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanati… read more

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20. The Lotus Eaters

By: Tatjana Soli

3.33

Format: None pages,

A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as … read more

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Cover of Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two by K.G.E. Konkel

21. 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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22. 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

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • 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

Cover of The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery) by Susan  Rowland

23. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

By: Susan Rowland

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more

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"The fire on the mountain."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

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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

Similar categories in John Payton Foden's Magenta book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • war
"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

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25. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

Similar categories in James Holland's The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer

26. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

Similar categories in Katja Hoyer's Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
  • war
Cover of Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James  Holland

27. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

By: James Holland

4.47

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor

28. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of SMILES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Silly Seasonal Short Stories by Nancy O'Meara

29. SMILES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Silly Seasonal Short Stories

By: Nancy O'Meara

4.30

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

None read more

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Cover of Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France by James  Holland

30. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

By: James Holland

4.45

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more

Similar categories in James Holland's Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll

31. 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

Similar categories in Ian W. Toll's Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 book and Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

21 must-read history books like Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings

Transform Your Habits

Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

4.23

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The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Antony Beevor

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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