If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
By: George Wilson
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II command…
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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. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.14
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more
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3. A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us
By: Marcus Brotherton
4.32
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
The author of We Who Are Alive and Remain presents remembrances from the families of the soldiers o… read more
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4. The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1)
By: Jeff Shaara
4.16
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil … read more
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"control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and"-Jeff Shaara, The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1)
5. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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6. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
7. 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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8. 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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9. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labour Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom
By: None
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1955, As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me has seen international success ever s… read more
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10. Visions From a Foxhole: A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps
By: William A. Foley Jr.
0.00
Format: 287 pages,
An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division's bold campaign to break… read more
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11. 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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12. If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
By: George Wilson
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II command… read more
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13. Crack! and Thump: With a Combat Infantry Officer in World War II
By: Barry Basden , None
4.72
Format: 64 pages,
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14. Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
By: Jim Frederick
3.95
Format: 315 pages,
This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infa… read more
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15. 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
16. 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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"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
17. 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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18. Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
By: William Marvel , None , None
3.64
Format: 288 pages,
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19. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more
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20. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos
4.36
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more
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"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
21. Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
By: Charles B. MacDonald
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As a newly commisioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its … read more
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22. 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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23. Bread Givers
By: Anzia Yezierska
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manh… read more
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24. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
By: Peter Englund , Peter Graves
4.17
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, b… read more
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"Війна — гарне видовище з точки зору генералів, журналістів та вчених."-Peter Englund, The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
25. The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
By: Alex Kershaw
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly … read more
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26. 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
27. Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
By: Ray Lambert
4.41
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Da… read more
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28. America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)
By: Charles Whiting
4.25
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthralling account of the World War Two exploits of the U.S. Seventh Army, from Sicily to Franc… read more
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29. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
By: Adam Makos
4.53
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story… read more
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30. Roll Me Over: An Infantryman's World War II
By: Raymond Gantter
4.18
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Raymond Gantter arrived in Normandy in the fall of 1944, bodies were still washing up from the… read more
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31. From The Bronx To Berchtesgaden: The Combat Memoir of a WWII Hero
By: Murray Soskil
4.28
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
The author, Murray Soskil, is the recipient of two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and six Battle Star… read more
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