What are the best 'ww2 nonfiction' books?
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What do readers say about Band of Brothers?
relaxed story-like paceleadership and sacrificeworld war 2well written and fascinatingStephen E. Ambrose's classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. F... Read more about Band of Brothers
At first light on June 7, Captain Hester came to see Winters with a message. "Winters," he said, "I hate to do this to you after what you went through yesterday, but I want E Company to lead off the c...
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What do readers say about Unbroken?
meticulously researched and powerfulnonfiction biographical epicimpeccably researched and writtenstraightforward yet spellbinding#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.
In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinq... Read more about Unbroken
IN THE PREDAWN DARKNESS OF AUGUST 26, 1929, IN THE back bedroom of a small house in Torrance, California, a twelve-year-old boy sat up in bed, listening. There was a sound coming from outside, growing...
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What do readers say about The Rape of Nanking?
sensationalistic, subjective styleengaging, easy-to-read prosejapanese war atrocitiesbeautifully written and renderedThe New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal - and forgotten - massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II
In December 1937, one of the most horrific atrocities in the long a... Read more about The Rape of Nanking
IN TRYING to understand the actions of the Japanese, the questions that call out loudest for answers are the most obvious ones. What broke down on the scene to allow the behavior of Japanese soldiers ...
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What do readers say about The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?
a lot of actionamazing and comprehensive historyclassic history'text 'a classic compendiumNo other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produc... Read more about The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
ON THE VERY EVE of the birth of the Third Reich a feverish tension gripped Berlin. The Weimar Republic, it seemed obvious to almost everyone, was about to expire. For more than a year it had been fast...
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What do readers say about With the Old Breed?
book of the yearstark, honest and heartfeltbrutality of warunvarnished, raw, honest writing"Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific-the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary-into terms ... Read more about With the Old Breed
I enlisted in the Marine Corps on 3 December 1942 at Marion, Alabama. At the time I was a freshman at Marion Military Institute. My parents and brother Edward had urged me to stay in college as long a...
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What do readers say about In the Garden of Beasts?
fascinating and horrifyingpre-wwii nazi germanyhistory and biographyeasy to read styleErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Nazi Ge... Read more about In the Garden of Beasts
Now chairman of the history department, Dodd had been a professor at the university since 1909, recognized nationally for his work on the American South and for a biography of Woodrow Wilson. He was s...
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What do readers say about Inferno?
a single volume overviewhighly readablegood full-picture history of wwii.primary sources, nonfiction, very well researchedWinner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History
A New York Times Notable Book
From 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.
For thir... Read more about Inferno
WHILE ADOLF HITLER was determined to wage war, it was no more inevitable that his 1939 invasion of Poland precipitated global conflict than that the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Au...
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What do readers say about The Second World War?
real quality bookexhaustive and detailed accountfairly easy to readsuperb work of historyA masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winnin... Read more about The Second World War
On 1 June 1939, Georgii Zhukov, a short and sturdy cavalry commander, received an urgent summons to Moscow. Stalin’s purge of the Red Army, begun in 1937, still continued, so Zhukov, who had been accu...
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What do readers say about Spearhead?
wwii tank gunnerpuerilea very important and educational bookwell written and a pleasure to readTHE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
"A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing's turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury."... Read more about Spearhead
Traveling solo or in pairs with the rising sun at their backs, multiple companies of Shermans flooded across the Mons countryside to extend the division’s reach, pressing the enemy into an ever-tighte...
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What do readers say about The Great Escape?
plain and engrossingan exciting escape storywwii escape attemptsinformative, insightful and entertaining"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale." -Philadelphia Inquirer
They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, an... Read more about The Great Escape
It looked like a long war, and the Germans were building a new compound at Sagan. In the pine woods across the Kommandantur, gaunt Russian prisoners had felled some trees to clear a patch and workmen ...
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