We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
By: Elizabeth M. Norman
4.27
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," h…
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1. The First Casualty
By: Ben Elton
3.94
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German … read more
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"Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"But these are only words and probably convey only a fraction of their meaning to the hearers. They shudder and it is forgotten."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"Don't you just love the army? They take a fellow who's been turned into a catatonic mute by being shelled from here to Christmas and say he's not yet been properly diagnosed but he seems a bit nervou…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"I'm twenty-two and a woman. One of the ways men diminish women's status and our contribution whilst simultaneously entrenching their quasi-paternal male authority is to call us girls. Girls go to sch…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
2. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
By: George Packer
0.00
Format: 798 pages,
Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Bost… read more
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3. One Soldier's War in Chechnya
By: Nick Allen , Arkady Babchenko , Аркадий Бабченко
4.07
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A vivid, autobiographical account of what life was like for a young soldier in Russia's Chechen war… read more
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4. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Timeis a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and hono… read more
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5. A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
By: Vasily Grossman , Antony Beevor , Luba Vinogradova
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud … read more
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6. Tales of the South Pacific
By: James A. Michener
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the… read more
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7. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45
By: Ian Kershaw
4.14
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a… read more
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8. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
By: Bernard B. Fall , Robertson Dean
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambition… read more
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9. Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers
By: Larry Alexander
4.56
Format: 200 pages,
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10. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
By: Dominic Hoffman , Steve Sheinkin
4.35
Format: None pages, Audio CD
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve … read more
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11. Year of the Jungle
By: Suzanne Collins , James Proimos
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the… read more
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12. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
By: Elizabeth M. Norman
4.27
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," h… read more
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- medical
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- womens
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13. Last of the Curlews
By: Fred Bodsworth
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
A solitary Eskimo curlew sets out on a last perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone surv… read more
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14. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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15. The Greatest Generation
By: Tom Brokaw
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documenta… read more
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16. 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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17. 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
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
19. When We Had Wings
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses station… read more
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20. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
By: Sarah Rose
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency … read more
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"They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages."-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
"Where regular forces provide martial muscle, the special forces are surgical and skilled, trained to be “the most potent weapons one can use"-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
"She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable."-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
"Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have…"-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
21. John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
By: Dan Abrams
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening story of America on the edge of revolution, revealing the life of young John Adams a… read more
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