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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
Battle: The Story of the Bulge
John Willard Toland · 400 pages
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
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.
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
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 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.
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
Ronald H. Spector · 589 pages
Beginning with Pearl Harbor in 1941 and concluding with Japan's surrender in August 1945, this is a detailed and authoritative narrative history of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan.
Blitzkrieg: From The Rise Of Hitler To The Fall Of Dunkirk
Len Deighton · 311 pages
To Lose a Battle - France 1940
Alistair Horne · 647 pages
The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Winston Groom · 512 pages
Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new generation of American soldier. Against the backdrop
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.
We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers
Marcus Brotherton
From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers.They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on DDay and, later, Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through Belgium, France, and Germany, survived overwhelming odds, liberated concentration c
Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II
Robert Leckie · 224 pages
"Leckie's smooth narrative deals with all aspects of the Okinawa battle...and his style adds some nice touches, including autobiographical flashes that go back as fas as Guadalcanal."—Washington Post Book World.
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-Boats
William Geroux · 395 pages
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community's monumental contribution to that effort. One of the indelible images of World War II is of an explosion at sea-- a U-boat attack, a ship in flames, and an ocean full of men swimming for their lives.
The Germans in Normandy
Richard Hargreaves · 271 pages
The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It
Robert Gandt · 385 pages
Band of Brothers at sea and in the skies, 340 miles off the coast of Japan. The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final -- and most brutal -- battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa. April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are overpo
A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War
Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett · 672 pages
"Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of military leaders on both sid