Books like 'Brave Men'
Readers who enjoyed Brave Men by Ernie Pyle also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
historical 20th century war ww2 military classics journalism writer
-
The Promise by Ruth Saberton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo matter what promises you make, some dark secrets refuse to stay buried... When Nell Summers stumbles across a photograph in her late father’s belongings, the faded image of a young soldier leads her to question everything she knows...Categorized as:
ww2 war military historical-fiction fiction historical 20th-century violent-conflict -
![Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford]()
Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWHAT THEY DID IN WORLD WAR II WAS HISTORY'S BLOODIEST NIGHTMARE.The ashes of World War II were still cooling when France went to war in the jungles of Southeast Asia. In that struggle, its frontline troops were the misfits, criminals and mercenaries of the French Foreign Legion... -
![Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich]()
Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCross of Iron is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. A resourceful and cynical commander somehow manages to coax his men through the bitter hand-to-hand fighting in forests, trenches and city streets until eventually they regain the German lines. But safety is only temporary... -
![Midnight Clear by William Wharton]()
Midnight Clear by William Wharton
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChristmas Eve 1944, and six young US soldiers are sent close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau in the Ardennes Forest. Hearing strange noises, they gradually realise that they are surrounded. But perhaps the Germans are as reluctant to fight as themselves... -
-
![Battle Cry by Leon Uris]()
Battle Cry by Leon Uris
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBattle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and Exodus.Originally published in 1953, Leon Uris's Battle Cry is the raw and exciting story of men at war from a legendary American author.This is the story of enlisted men – Marines – at the beginning of World War II... -
![one man's destiny by Mikhail Sholokhov]()
one man's destiny by Mikhail Sholokhov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere is restraint and a trace of sadness in the way Mikhail Sholokov begins his story, as if to warn the reader that it is not an easy tale he has to tell. One postwar spring the author met a tall man with stooping shoulders and big rugged hands... -
![Stalingrad by Theodor Plievier]()
Stalingrad by Theodor Plievier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fictional account of the the destruction of the entire German Sixth Army in the decisive battle of the European War. Translated from German by Richard and Clara Winston... -
![Assignment Gestapo by Sven Hassel, Jean Ure]()
Assignment Gestapo by Sven Hassel, Jean Ure
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Washington Post calls Sven Hassel “a brilliant storyteller,” and his series of novels about life in Hitler’s army have sold in the millions. In this wartime adventure, his cast of characters is caught up with the “Disciplinary Regiment,” a tank regiment that doesn’t actually have a tank to its name... -
![The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II by Gert Ledig]()
The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II by Gert Ledig
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up... -
![Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens]()
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJames Gould Cozzens was one of America's most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel GUARD OF HONOR balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days to a racial incident on a U.S. Air Force training base in Florida in 1942... -
![Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll]()
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S... -
![Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll]()
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics-on both sides-illuminating the greatest naval war in history. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss... -
![The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson]()
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler... -
![The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze]()
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe idea that Nazi Germany was an unstoppable juggernaut, backed by an efficient, highly industrialized economy, has been central to all accounts of World War II... -
-
![The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns]()
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country... -
![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... -
![The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid]()
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action... -
![The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan]()
The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe definitive, Nobel Prize–winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature From Britain's darkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory, the Second World War remains the most pivotal event of the twentieth century... -
![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 Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson]()
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA "breathtakingly magisterial" account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya... -
![“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill]()
“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis eBook reproduces British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s historic speech “Finest Hour,” delivered on June 18, 1940. The speech was dedicated to the heroism of Royal Air Force pilots defending England from the Luftwaffe during the critical Battle of Britain (July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940)... -
![The Last Seven Months Of Anne Frank - The Stories of Six Women Who Knew Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer]()
The Last Seven Months Of Anne Frank - The Stories of Six Women Who Knew Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSix powerful, harrowing, moving interviews with women who knew Anne Frank in the final seven months of her life. Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank – the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended... -
![The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan]()
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe unparalleled work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II -- now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.Newly in print for the first time in years, this is the classic story of the invasion of Normandy, and a book that endures as a masterpiece of living history... -
![D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches by Stephen E. Ambrose]()
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches by Stephen E. Ambrose
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not handgrenades; shooting... -
-
![The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill]()
The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWinston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed substantial literary talents. These two factors combine to make The Gathering Storm a unique work. The first volume of Churchill's memoirs, this selection is broken into two parts... -
![Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian]()
Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal... -
![Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings]()
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war... -
![Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin]()
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history... -
![The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill]()
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
![Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan]()
Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe drive to victory between June 1943 and July 1944, as the Allies consolidate their achievements, with enormous difficulty and great divergence of opinion...
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.
