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The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat by Pierre Clostermann
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'THE BIG SHOW is as close as you'll ever get to fighting for your life from the cockpit of a Spitfire or Typhoon. Perhaps the most viscerally exciting book ever written by a fighter pilot.' Rowland White Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War... -
![The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by [美]伊恩·托尔(Ian W. Toll)]()
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by [美]伊恩·托尔(Ian W. Toll)
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island... -
![First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum]()
First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughout its first century... -
![Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully]()
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMany consider the Battle of Midway to have 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 bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement... -
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![Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France by James Holland]()
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France by James Holland
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsD-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries... -
![The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee]()
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife... -
![Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom by Sam Pivnik]()
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom by Sam Pivnik
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing.After this harrowing experience, he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp... -
![A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G.J. Meyer]()
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G.J. Meyer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today... -
![Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings]()
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of brutal fighting... -
![After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss]()
After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother, from whom they had been separated... -
![Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander]()
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe New York Times bestseller that tells the true story of the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers in World War II.In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the others... -
![Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History]()
Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnne Frank * * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet. Anne Frank’s story is definitely a tragic one; every aspect of it is steeped in the tragedy of the Holocaust... -
![Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie]()
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA gripping new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the crowd of journalists, Cabinet Ministers and well-wishers waiting at Heston airfield... -
![De oorlogsdagboeken van Louis Barthas (tonnenmaker), 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas]()
De oorlogsdagboeken van Louis Barthas (tonnenmaker), 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlong with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne... -
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![Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes]()
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFeatured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources... -
![The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns]()
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced--and helped to win--the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost... -
![To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer]()
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis second volume of Victor Klemperer's diary covers the period from the beginning of the Holocaust to the end of the war, telling the story of Klemperer's increasing isolation, his near miraculous survival, and his growing awareness of the Holocaust as his friends and associates disappeared... -
![The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin]()
The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II.They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit in the United States Army. In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd Battalion would form the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler’s homeland at last... -
![The Price of Glory: Verdum, 1916 by Alistair Horne]()
The Price of Glory: Verdum, 1916 by Alistair Horne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn account of the German assault on the French fortress, the aim of which was not so much to defeat the enemy as to bleed him to death. The price was 700,000 dead on a 15 mile front. The author also wrote "The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71" and "A Savage War of Peace"... -
![Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'Este]()
Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'Este
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBased on exclusive access to his personal and public papers, and with the full cooperation of his family, Patton is an intimate look at the colorful, charismatic, and sometimes controversial man who became the one general the Germans respected and feared the most during World War II. Photos... -
![Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story by William Guarnere, Edward Heffron]()
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story by William Guarnere, Edward Heffron
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTom Hanks introduces the "remarkable" (Publishers Weekly) story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Armymembers of an elite unit of the 101st Airborne Division called Easy Company... -
![Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II by Charles B. MacDonald]()
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II by Charles B. MacDonald
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a newly commisioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish--the Battle of the Bulge. In this plain-spoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minute at MacDonald's side, sharing in all of combat's misery, terror, and drama... -
![Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer]()
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Battle of Guadalcanal has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice, James D. Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound... -
![Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings, Stewart Cameron]()
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings, Stewart Cameron
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith an introduction read by Max Hastings. A companion volume to his bestselling Armageddon, Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history... -
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![Churchill by Andrew Roberts]()
Churchill by Andrew Roberts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from private letters to war cabinet meetings, by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War... -
![1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof]()
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe author's research leads to some surprising conclusions. Documents from foreign ministries, and notes and memoranda from British, French, Italian and American leaders, ministers, diplomats and military commanders, prove that quite a number of countries were involved in instigating World War II. Interconnections, hitherto overlooked, are made clear... -
![When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini]()
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRuntime: 19 hours and 33 minutes, read by the author, Edoardo Ballerini, and a full castFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World War II... -
![Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang by Richard H. O'Kane]()
Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang by Richard H. O'Kane
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. This is her story as told by her skipper... -
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![Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 - The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire by Fergal Keane]()
Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 - The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire by Fergal Keane
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle that was amongst the most savage in modern warfare...
![The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by [美]伊恩·托尔(Ian W. Toll)](https://48f-1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/books/small/62540f74cd17c18e90c04475.jpg)
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