Veteran Recommendations
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The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II Book 1)
by:
Limor Regev
4.45 avg rating β 7,160 ratings 
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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Neil Sheehan
4.24 avg rating β 12,399 ratings 14. 
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.29 avg rating β 22,178 ratings 
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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Malcolm Gladwell
4.03 avg rating β 61,496 ratings 
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II 4.48 avg rating β 11,897 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating β 144,582 ratings
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
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Buzz Bissinger
3.80 avg rating β 3,750 ratings 
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
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Ben Macintyre
4.26 avg rating β 9,825 ratings 33. 
Behavior Reports: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel (USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series Book 5)
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Scott W. Cook
4.39 avg rating β 1,735 ratings 
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Wings of Destiny: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 1)
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Scott W. Cook
4.31 avg rating β 2,097 ratings 
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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David Halberstam
4.22 avg rating β 9,183 ratings 41. 
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
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Max Hastings
4.25 avg rating β 1,901 ratings 
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Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
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Steve Snyder
4.21 avg rating β 8,568 ratings 
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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Harold G. Moore
4.34 avg rating β 32,454 ratings 
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HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
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Mark Bowden
4.33 avg rating β 7,778 ratings 51. 
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Cormac McCarthy
4.16 avg rating β 204,496 ratings 
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
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Rick Atkinson
4.48 avg rating β 10,572 ratings 
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany 4.24 avg rating β 24,326 ratings
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II 4.18 avg rating β 961 ratings
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941β1942
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Ian W. Toll
4.61 avg rating β 9,759 ratings 58. 
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
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Bill O'Reilly
4.35 avg rating β 21,289 ratings 59. 
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating β 31,441 ratings 60. 
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 4.34 avg rating β 6,315 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating β 215,190 ratings 64. 
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating β 136,019 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating β 352,791 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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Corrie ten Boom
4.47 avg rating β 348,519 ratings 67. 
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
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Cornelius Ryan
4.25 avg rating β 7,006 ratings 
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
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John D. Lukacs
4.23 avg rating β 1,268 ratings 
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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Mitchell Zuckoff
3.87 avg rating β 46,528 ratings 79. 
Our Vietnam Wars: As Told by 100 Veterans Who Served (Our Vietnam Wars, #1)
by:
William F. Brown
4.03 avg rating β 1,493 ratings 
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
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Dick Winters
4.33 avg rating β 19,677 ratings 
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β 989,223 ratings
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Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
by:
Michael Anthony
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 143 ratings 86. 
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
by:
H.R. McMaster
3.99 avg rating β 4,792 ratings 
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The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness
by:
Eric Lomax
4.13 avg rating β 7,980 ratings 90. 
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II 4.09 avg rating β 12,935 ratings
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
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Alex Kershaw
4.26 avg rating β 4,612 ratings 93. 
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating β 66,126 ratings 
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II 4.08 avg rating β 2,433 ratings
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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
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Alex Kershaw
4.18 avg rating β 8,304 ratings 97. 
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
by:
Richard J. Evans
4.39 avg rating β 5,928 ratings 98. 
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
by:
Gordon W. Prange
4.21 avg rating β 3,692 ratings 
