Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
By: Bruce Henderson
3.65
Format: None pages,
The true story made famous in Werner Herzog's acclaimed film Rescue Dawn---the incredible drama of …
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1. Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
By: Darlene Deibler Rose
4.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is the true story of a young American missionary woman's courage and triumph of faith in the j… read more
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- biography
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"What you don't know cannot be beaten out of you."-Darlene Deibler Rose, Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
"As we stepped into the large mess hall, a band began to play "The Star Spangled Banner," and Old Glory was unfurled before us. I came undone. I couldn't help it; I began to sob. This was the first Am…"-Darlene Deibler Rose, Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
2. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
3. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
By: Joan Druett
4.05
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island … read more
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- survival
- nonfiction
- biography
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4. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of B… read more
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5. Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
By: N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss , Timothy Orr , Laura Orr
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller* "An instant classic." --Dallas Morning News * 75 YEARS AGO, ONE DARING AMERICA… read more
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6. Black Hawk Down
By: Mark Bowden
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more
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7. Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
By: Bruce Henderson
3.65
Format: None pages,
The true story made famous in Werner Herzog's acclaimed film Rescue Dawn---the incredible drama of … read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
By: Stephen Harding
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be th… read more
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9. Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
As the British army fights its way through India toward a diabolical trap, young private Richard Sh… read more
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10. 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
11. All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
By: Ken Gire , Donald Stratton
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first and only memoir by a survivor of the USS Arizona, published in conjunction … read more
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12. American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
By: Chris Kyle , William Doyle
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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13. Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
By: Marcus Brotherton , Adam Makos
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
These are the stories from fifteen WWII Marines, compiled by Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton but l… read more
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14. Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
By: Ronald L. Mallett , Bruce Henderson
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mall… read more
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15. 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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16. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
By: Martin Dugard
4.07
Format: 71 pages,
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17. Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
By: Adam Makos
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Unbrokenand The Boys in the Boatcomes an unforgettable tale of courage from America'… read more
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18. In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down
By: Michael J. Durant , Steven Hartov
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over Somalia, Michael Durant was shot down with a… read more
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19. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
By: Jon Krakauer
4.08
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a s… read more
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- biography
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- war
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- nonfiction
20. Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
4.35
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and … read more
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- nonfiction
21. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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23. 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
24. The Lido
By: Libby Page
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject—and the unlik… read more
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"She took the loneliness out of being alone."-Libby Page, The Lido
"In a large townhouse, a family is spread out across its rooms, each living in their own state but under one flag"-Libby Page, The Lido
"...around puberty when the girls' bodies felt to them like uncomfortable clothes they'd love to wriggle out of. She remembers the transformation: the giggling rabble became a subdued group by the wat…"-Libby Page, The Lido
"It was rare that she got dressed up and went out, but each time a dinner party or the Christmas dinner with the other library staff came round she would stand in front of the mirror asking George to …"-Libby Page, The Lido
25. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
26. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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27. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
By: Hampton Sides
4.57
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle… read more
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- military fiction
- war
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- nonfiction
28. Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
By: Howard Blum
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed… read more
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- military fiction
- history
- war
29. Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam
By: Stephen Coonts
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
A riveting Vietnam War story--and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York … read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
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- nonfiction
30. The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and WWI's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
By: Patrick K. O'Donnell
4.23
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constru… read more
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- biography
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31. Days of Valor: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War
By: Robert Tonsetic
4.08
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
A nonstop maelstrom of combat action, leaving readers nearly breathless by the end. Days of Valor c… read more
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