15 must-read nonfiction books like Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

Cover of Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

By: Larry Loftis

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy The year is 1942, and Wo…

"She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

"She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

"When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

"When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson

1. Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

By: William Stevenson

3.61

Format: 160 pages,

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt

2. The Things a Brother Knows

By: Dana Reinhardt

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of a young marine's return from war in the Middle East and the psychological effects it h… read more

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  • war
Cover of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

3. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

By: Jason Fagone

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figuresand In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the gr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman

4. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

5. Remember Us: My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

By: None , None

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Remember Usis a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and prof… read more

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6. Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck

By: Hans von Luck

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A stunning look at World War II from the other side... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Ha… read more

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7. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

By: Liza Mundy

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more

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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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  • 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

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
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • 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

Cover of Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson

10. Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

By: Lynne Olson

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade--codename Hedgehog--the woman who headed the la… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

11. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

12. Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

By: Larry Loftis

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy The year is 1942, and Wo… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
"She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

"When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

Cover of Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod

13. Token Black Girl

By: Danielle Prescod

3.92

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingl… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It’s the media’s job to accurately reflect the world we live in, not distort it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"How much pain you can withstand should not be the barometer of how successful you can become."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"Women are taught that our bodies must be fixed and that, if given the power to do so, we should use it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"I was convinced I had to work for and earn affection… I would have to put in the time and effort to be loved."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

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14. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • audiobook
Cover of Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim  Brady

15. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera

16. Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe

By: Gordon Corera

3.72

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Imagine being blindfolded and then taken hundreds of miles from home -- perhaps even to another country across the sea. And then suddenly having the blindfold removed and, despite not having the slig…"

-Gordon Corera, Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe

Cover of Zootopia: Judy Hopps and the Missing Jumbo-Pop (Disney Picture Book (ebook)) by Walt Disney Company

17. Zootopia: Judy Hopps and the Missing Jumbo-Pop (Disney Picture Book (ebook))

By: Walt Disney Company

4.20

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Officer Judy Hopps is on an exciting case in Zootopia. Her day started out like any other, until sh… read more

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Cover of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

18. 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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  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Discovering Daniel: Finding Our Hope in God’s Prophetic Plan Amid Global Chaos by Amir Tsarfati

19. Discovering Daniel: Finding Our Hope in God’s Prophetic Plan Amid Global Chaos

By: Amir Tsarfati

4.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Our Lives and the Future Are in His Hands While the world appears to be in dire straits, the book o… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Community by N. Jamiyla Chisholm

20. The Community

By: N. Jamiyla Chisholm

3.63

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon

21. Nancy Wake

By: Russell Braddon

4.33

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of—as told to the author b… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france

10 Top audiobook books like Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

Jason Fagone

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Lynne Olson

4.22

Transform Your Habits

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

Larry Loftis

4.00

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16 Top fiction books like Zootopia: Judy Hopps and the Missing Jumbo-Pop (Disney Picture Book (ebook)) by Walt Disney Company

Transform Your Habits

Moana: The Mighty Maui Makes a Friend

Walt Disney Company , Mehrdad Isvandi , Kalikolehua Hurley

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Naughty Ninja Takes a Bath

Todd Tarpley

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Mean Bean: A Children's Book About Anger, Jealousy, and Bullying (Big Emotions and Feelings For Kids)

Sonica Ellis

4.23

Transform Your Habits

This Book Is Perfect!

Ron Keres

4.53

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