13 Top history books like And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat, Robert MacNeil, Charles Martin Smith

Cover of And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat, Robert MacNeil, Charles Martin Smith

And No Birds Sang

By: Farley Mowat , Robert MacNeil , Charles Martin Smith

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat…

If you liked the history plot in And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat, Robert MacNeil, Charles Martin Smith , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose

1. 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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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 Volume 2 by Tim Cook

2. Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 Volume 2

By: Tim Cook

4.55

Format: 727 pages, Hardcover

Shock Troops follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70… read more

Similar categories in Tim Cook's Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 Volume 2 book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • canada
Cover of Auschwitz by Laurence Rees

3. Auschwitz

By: Laurence Rees

4.30

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fu… read more

Similar categories in Laurence Rees's Auschwitz book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"A diferencia del estalinismo y otras dictaduras que se apropiaron, sin más, del poder, el nazismo se sustentó en una base popular."

-Laurence Rees, Auschwitz

Cover of Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1) by Alan Furst

4. Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)

By: Alan Furst

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is re… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
Cover of The Madman and the Butcher: the Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie by Tim Cook

5. The Madman and the Butcher: the Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie

By: Tim Cook

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Based on newly uncovered sources, The Madman and the Butcheris a powerful double biography of Sam H… read more

Similar categories in Tim Cook's The Madman and the Butcher: the Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

6. 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

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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7. Demolition Angel

By: Robert Crais

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Carol Starkey is a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspira… read more

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Cover of Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester

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

Similar categories in William Manchester's Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides

9. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

By: Hampton Sides

3.17

Format: None pages,

On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped … read more

Similar categories in Hampton Sides's Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

10. The Day the Devils Dropped In: The 9th Parachute Battalion in Normandy - D-Day to D+6

By: Neil Barber

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

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Similar categories in Neil Barber's The Day the Devils Dropped In: The 9th Parachute Battalion in Normandy - D-Day to D+6 book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • world war ii
Cover of Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II by George MacDonald Fraser

11. Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

By: George MacDonald Fraser

4.14

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
". . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time."

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

"Fortunately for the world my generation didn't suffer from spiritual hypochondria - but then, we couldn't afford it. By modern standards, I'm sure we, like the whole population who endured the war, w…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

"It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talk…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

Cover of And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat, Robert MacNeil, Charles Martin Smith

12. And No Birds Sang

By: Farley Mowat , Robert MacNeil , Charles Martin Smith

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat… read more

Similar categories in Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

13. Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

3.43

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Lost in Shangri-La recounts the incredible true-life adventure of twenty-four officers and enlisted… read more

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14. At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916, Volume 1

By: Tim Cook

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

At the Sharp Endcovers the harrowing early battles of World War One, when tens of thousands, then h… read more

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15. Ragtime

By: E.L. Doctorow

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tape… read more

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"It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

16. The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle

By: None

3.51

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he was… read more

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Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

17. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent

18. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

By: Lynn Vincent

4.45

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Vincent's Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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19. The Trail

By: Ethan Gallogly

4.31

Format: None pages, ebook

A Transformative Journey on the John Muir Trail A NEXT GEN INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALIST Set auth… read more

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Cover of Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe by James  Holland

20. Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Nor… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger

21. The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943

By: Mark Saliger

3.77

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched nar… read more

Similar categories in Mark Saliger's The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 book and Farley Mowat's And No Birds Sang

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

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Tim Cook

4.55

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Laurence Rees

4.30

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Tim Cook

3.44

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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David McCullough

4.09

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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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