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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb · 400 pages
xix, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of facsimilies : 24 cm
Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest i n Europe
Jonathan W. Jordan · 654 pages
Examines the relationship between American World War II generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley, and looks at how they were able to work together to defeat Germany.
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
David Kahn · 336 pages
The Battle of Kursk
David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House · 478 pages
"Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses - including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties - within the first ten days of fighting. Going well beyond all previous accounts, David Glantz and Jonathan House now offer the definitive work
The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
James Scott · 437 pages
The "story of the submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying the nation's economy. Focusing on the unique stories of three of the wars top submarines--Silversides, Drum, and Tang--[the author] takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service"--Dust jacket flap.
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa
John Wukovits · 336 pages
In the Tarawa atoll lies the tiny islet of Betio. In November of 1943, the men of the 2nd Marine Division watched as bombardments destroyed the island's Japanese defenses. But when the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their protective bunkers and began one of the most brutal encounters of the war.Drawn from sources such as participants' letters and diaries and interviews with survivors,
Enigma - The Battle for the Code
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore · 528 pages
Crete: The Battle And The Resistance
Antony Beevor · 384 pages
"The bestselling author of Stalingrad and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete--reissued with a new introduction. Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war
The German Generals Talk
B.H. Liddell Hart · 308 pages
Statements made to the author in 1945 by German generals detained as prisoners of war with the author's comments.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
William Manchester · 438 pages
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Alex Kershaw · 440 pages
On 10 July 1943, Felix Sparks arrived with the Allied forces in Italy, a captain in the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Division - nicknamed the Thunderbirds. Just twenty-five years old, Sparks soon proved a leader of immense fortitude and stamina, participating in four amphibious invasions and leading his men through the mountains of Italy and France before enduring intense winter combat agai
With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain
Michael Korda · 336 pages
Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force — often no more than nine hundred on any given day — stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp.Korda re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern Englan
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945
Max Hastings · 612 pages
An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
Tonight We Die As Men: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-Day
Ian Gardner, Roger Day · 344 pages
Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Second World War
F.W. von Mellenthin · 440 pages
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
James Campbell · 400 pages
Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns.
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
Robert J. Mrazek · 526 pages
One of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical victories at Midway and Guadalcanal. These 35 American men--many flying outmoded aircraft--changed the course of history, going on to become the war's most decorated naval air squadron, while suffering t
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain
Len Deighton · 272 pages
Novelist Len Deighton has written a military buff's delight: a meticulous history of the men and machines of the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force in their struggle over Britain in the summer of 1940. Deighton describes the Battle in the stark, no-nonsense terms of a chess player recounting a game; the reader will not feel what it was like to be a Spitfire or Messerschmitt pilot, but he will know
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully · 613 pages
"The Battle of Midway turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's Miracle at Midway, comes a myth-smashing new interpretation of this great naval engagement." "Making extensive use of untapped Japanese primary sources, including Imperial Navy operational records never before used by Western
The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
Judith M. Heimann · 304 pages
November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves facing a Japanese fleet--and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these
Why the Allies Won
Richard Overy · 416 pages
The author offers a thorough analysis of the events, efforts, and qualities that led to the Allied victory in World War II: the war at sea, the battles in Russia and Eastern Europe, the air war, and the invasion of Europe, the relocation of the Soviet industrial base, along with the quality of leadership, fighiting ability, and moral motivation.
Countdown Battle of the Bulge
Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss