5 must-read classics books like Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford, Robie MacAuley

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Parade's End

By: Ford Madox Ford , Robie MacAuley

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to …

If you liked the classics plot in Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford, Robie MacAuley , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the inspiring story of … read more

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  • war
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2. The Naked and the Dead

By: Norman Mailer

3.95

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

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3. Point Counter Point

By: Aldous Huxley

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest ex… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"¡Cómo la odio a usted, en realidad, por obligarme a quererla tanto!"

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"But one does not marry a set of virtues and talents; one marries an individual human being."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

Cover of A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3) by Sebastian Barry

4. A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)

By: Sebastian Barry

4.14

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyaltie… read more

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  • world war i
  • literature
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood."

-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)

"I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart."

-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)

"She was altered by time and how he wished he was to be the man to comfort her in that and avow to her that no lessening of youth would bring a lessening of love"

-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)

"Heroic things had been suggested to them, and though they were not heroes as you might read about in old Greek stories, their hearts, such as they were, answered."

-Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)

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5. Parade's End

By: Ford Madox Ford , Robie MacAuley

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to … read more

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  • world war i
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Wapshot Chronicle

By: John Cheever , Rick Moody

4.16

Format: None pages,

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction

7. The Rainbow

By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more

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8. The Pacific

By: Hugh Ambrose

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind th… read more

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9. The Way of All Flesh

By: Samuel Butler

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Fleshis regarded b… read more

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10. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more

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11. 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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12. Rose Under Fire (Code Name Verity, #2)

By: Elizabeth Wein

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Hardcover

While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Ro… read more

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13. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

14. Finnegans Wake

By: James Joyce

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1… read more

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15. A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)

By: Anthony Powell

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century… read more

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16. From Here to Eternity

By: James Jones

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler… read more

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17. 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
Cover of Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two by K.G.E. Konkel

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

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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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  • 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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20. 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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  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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21. 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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7 Top fiction books like Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford, Robie MacAuley

Transform Your Habits

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

3.87

Transform Your Habits

A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)

Sebastian Barry

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Parade's End

Ford Madox Ford , Robie MacAuley

3.15

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Transform Your Habits

The Girl in the Garden

Melanie Wallace

3.43

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The Devil's Trinity

Michael Parker

4.26

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Scavenger Hunt

Chad Boudreaux

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Three Witches and The Master

Max Nowaz

4.30

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