10 best-selling war books like The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester

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The Good Shepherd

By: C.S. Forester

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The Good Shepherd has been adapted into a major motion picture, Greyhound, scripted by and starring…

If you liked the war plot in The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester , here is a list of 10 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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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
"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

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2. A Blaze of Glory (Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater, #1)

By: Jeff Shaara

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara ret… read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. A Prayer for the Ship

By: Douglas Reeman

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Small, quick-moving torpedo boats played a vital role in protecting the Allied convoys in the Engli… read more

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4. Dangerous Waters

By: Philip McCutchan

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1941, on her way to support the evacuation of Crete, the British destroyer 'Wharfedale' receives… read more

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5. The Cruel Sea

By: Nicholas Monsarrat

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World War II, this is the story of the British ships Comp… read more

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6. First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men--among them a dentist, a Hollywood m… read more

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7. The Good Shepherd

By: C.S. Forester

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The Good Shepherd has been adapted into a major motion picture, Greyhound, scripted by and starring… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • naval history
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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8. 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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  • 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

9. 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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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
  • war
"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

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10. 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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  • novels
"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

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11. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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12. Dust on the Sea

By: Douglas Reeman

4.03

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Young, toughened and … read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Complete Lieutenant Harding WWII Thrillers Books 1-4 (Lieutenant Peter Harding #1-4) by Antony Melville-Ross

13. The Complete Lieutenant Harding WWII Thrillers Books 1-4 (Lieutenant Peter Harding #1-4)

By: Antony Melville-Ross

4.51

Format: 1212 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Lieutenant Peter Harding as he proves himself in submarine warfare against the cunning of the … read more

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Cover of Donald Cameron Naval Thrillers Books 1–7 (Donald Cameron Naval Thrillers #1–7) by Philip McCutchan

14. Donald Cameron Naval Thrillers Books 1–7 (Donald Cameron Naval Thrillers #1–7)

By: Philip McCutchan

4.33

Format: 1208 pages, Kindle Edition

In this 7-book box set: BOOK 1: IN THE LINE OF FIRE 1941, the North Atlantic. Nineteen-year-old… read more

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15. THE COMPLETE LIEUTENANT OLIVER ANSON NAVAL THRILLERS BOOKS 1–4 four gripping historical naval adventures (Action-Packed Naval Adventure Box Sets)

By: David McDine

4.39

Format: 1221 pages, Kindle Edition

GET THIS *COMPLETE* ACTION-PACKED, HISTORICAL NAVAL ADVENTURE SERIES IN A GREAT-VALUE BOX SET.READE… read more

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16. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Terence Robertson

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more

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  • world war ii
  • military fiction
  • war
  • naval history
Cover of Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine by Andrew Wilson

17. Flame Thrower: Memoir of a Crocodile Tank Commander, D-Day to the Rhine

By: Andrew Wilson

4.41

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Normandy, June 1944. Tank commander Andrew Wilson, a twenty-year-old lieutenant, is in charge of a … read more

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  • world war ii
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18. The Complete RAF Series, Books 1-4 (RAF Saga #1-4)

By: Alan Savage

4.39

Format: 1106 pages, Kindle Edition

In this 4-book box set: Book 1: Blue Yonder Sergeant Mark Bayley, a flying ace, is shot down ov… read more

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19. For Valour

By: Douglas Reeman

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Commander Graham Martineau was awarded the Victoria Cross for pressing home an attack against impos… read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Go in and Sink!

By: Douglas Reeman

4.24

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander St… read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. De kom, de såg, de segrade : vad antikens fältherrar lär oss om makten och människan

By: Daniel Hermansson

3.83

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Låt landets mest folkkära historiepoddare ta med dig på en odyssé genom antikens blodiga slagfält. … read more

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Jeff Shaara

3.97

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C.S. Forester

4.18

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Patrick O'Brian

4.07

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Douglas Reeman

4.03

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Tom Mangold , John Penycate

4.05

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4.20

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Alistair Horne

4.29

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Shelby Foote

3.41

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