The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
By: Denis Avey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to…
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1. Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
By: Claudia Davila , Jessica Dee Humphreys , Michel Chikwanine
4.20
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Michel is like many other five-year-olds: he has a loving family and spends his days going to schoo… read more
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2. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the a… read more
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"Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman, war remains with us and within us, impossible to forget but difficult to remember."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
3. The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
By: Denis Avey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to… read more
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- historical
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
4. Vulcan 607
By: Rowland White
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bo… read more
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5. I Escaped from Auschwitz
By: Rudolf Vrba
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author describes his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz and his daring escape. read more
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6. Her Privates We
By: William Boyd , Frederic Manning
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
First published in 1930, 'Her Privates We' is the great book of World War I written from the ordina… read more
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7. Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member
By: Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager , Florence Fehrenbach , Jerome Fehrenbach , Steven Rendall
4.03
Format: 320 pages,
The last survivor of the plot to kill Hitler tells his story read more
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8. Everybody Sees the Ants
By: A.S. King
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vi… read more
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10. Fives and Twenty-Fives
By: Michael Pitre
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It's the rule-always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possib… read more
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11. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
By: Wendy Lower
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the n… read more
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12. The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
By: Wilfred Owen , Cecil Day-Lewis
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the… read more
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13. 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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14. 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
15. The 13th Valley
By: John M. Del Vecchio
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Praise for "The 13th Valley," a Finalist for the American Book Award: "There have been a number of … read more
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16. Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last
By: Shimon Peres , Elie Wiesel , None
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel! Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Bu… read more
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17. From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava (Lava #1)
By: Melinda Roth , Jay Kopelman
3.73
Format: 216 pages,
When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench t… read more
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18. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
By: H.R. McMaster
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York T… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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"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
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
