12 Top history books like To Hell and Back by Tom Brokaw, Audie Murphy

Cover of To Hell and Back by Tom Brokaw, Audie Murphy

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 …

"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

"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 shape or fashion."

-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 shape or fashion."

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

If you liked the history plot in To Hell and Back by Tom Brokaw, Audie Murphy , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon by Alex Kershaw

2. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

By: Alex Kershaw

4.17

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under t… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) by Rick Atkinson

3. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

By: Rick Atkinson

4.29

Format: 681 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"In battle, topography is fate."

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Cole C. Kingseed, Dick Winters

4. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters

3.95

Format: 288 pages,

They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe by Patrick K. O'Donnell

5. Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.12

Format: 543 pages,

It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of To Hell and Back by Tom Brokaw, Audie Murphy

6. 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

Similar categories in Tom Brokaw's To Hell and Back book and Tom Brokaw's To Hell and Back

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"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

7. Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds

By: Kevin Maurer , None

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before.Lions of Kandaha… read more

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8. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

By: Günter K. Koschorrek

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more

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9. 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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10. Baa Baa Black Sheep

By: Gregory Boyington

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black… read more

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11. The Longest Day

By: Cornelius Ryan

4.25

Format: 131 pages,

The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more

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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of 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

13. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two by K.G.E. Konkel

14. 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

Cover of Pacific Blood: A WWII Military Fiction Novel (Decker's Marine Raiders Series Book 1) by Scott Cook

15. Pacific Blood: A WWII Military Fiction Novel (Decker's Marine Raiders Series Book 1)

By: Scott Cook

4.24

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series, comes a new companion series about WWI… read more

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16. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"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

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17. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

By: Max Hastings

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operati… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
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Cover of Wings of Destiny: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 1) by Scott Cook

18. Wings of Destiny: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 1)

By: Scott Cook

4.30

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

A storm lurks over the horizon… a storm that will change the world forever.On December 7, 1941, the… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Behavior Reports: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel (USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series Book 5) by Scott Cook

19. Behavior Reports: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel (USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series Book 5)

By: Scott Cook

4.38

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

The only problem with being a war hero… is that history continually demands more heroism…After enjo… read more

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Cover of The Miracle of Dunkirk (Wordsworth Collection) by Walter Lord

20. The Miracle of Dunkirk (Wordsworth Collection)

By: Walter Lord

3.99

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by t… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
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Cover of Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II by Adam Makos

21. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

12 Best nonfiction books like To Hell and Back by Tom Brokaw, Audie Murphy

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

Alex Kershaw

4.17

Transform Your Habits

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Rick Atkinson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters

3.95

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9 best-selling historical books like Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II by Adam Makos

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

Alex Kershaw

4.17

Transform Your Habits

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

Bob Drury

4.34

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