World War II Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 3.95 avg rating — 14,512 ratings
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Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" 4.31 avg rating — 4,695 ratings
103.
A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice 4.15 avg rating — 60,768 ratings
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Souvenirs
Souvenirs 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 58,192 ratings
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 3,966 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir 4.28 avg rating — 160 ratings
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance 4.08 avg rating — 10,341 ratings
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Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899-1945 (Bernard Samson, #0)
Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899-1945 (Bernard Samson, #0) 4.15 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
110.
Comrades of Deceit
Comrades of Deceit 4.25 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Shepherd
The Shepherd 4.02 avg rating — 6,024 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
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon 4.18 avg rating — 8,304 ratings
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Escape, Evasion and Revenge: The True Story of a German-Jewish RAF Pilot Who Bombed Berlin and Became a POW
Escape, Evasion and Revenge: The True Story of a German-Jewish RAF Pilot Who Bombed Berlin and Became a POW 4.27 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Russia at War: 1941-1945
Russia at War: 1941-1945 4.32 avg rating — 530 ratings
113.
Devil's Deceit.
Devil's Deceit. 4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.11 avg rating — 5,020 ratings
117.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Beneath a Scarlet Sky 4.43 avg rating — 374,094 ratings
118.
German Boy: A Child in War
German Boy: A Child in War 4.44 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
118.
Once There Was a War
Once There Was a War 3.84 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
120.
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 4.28 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
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No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII 4.18 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
122.
Rommel: The Desert Fox
Rommel: The Desert Fox 4.07 avg rating — 972 ratings
122.
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox 4.05 avg rating — 496 ratings
122.
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story 4.23 avg rating — 3,877 ratings
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Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49
Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49 4.22 avg rating — 318 ratings
125.
All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To
All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To 3.74 avg rating — 725 ratings
127.
Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed
Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed 4.21 avg rating — 278 ratings
128.
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries of Housewife, 49
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries of Housewife, 49 4.22 avg rating — 558 ratings
128.
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3) 4.39 avg rating — 5,928 ratings
130.
Every Man Dies Alone
Every Man Dies Alone 4.27 avg rating — 35,344 ratings
130.
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War 4.03 avg rating — 61,498 ratings
132.
De donkere kamer van Damokles
De donkere kamer van Damokles 3.80 avg rating — 14,065 ratings
133.
Jackdaws
Jackdaws 4.08 avg rating — 42,382 ratings
133.
Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating — 20,486 ratings
133.
Why the Allies Won
Why the Allies Won 4.19 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
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Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust 4.09 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
136.
The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness
The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness 4.13 avg rating — 7,981 ratings
136.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 4.19 avg rating — 794,008 ratings
139.
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II 4.27 avg rating — 11,421 ratings
140.
Het bittere kruid
Het bittere kruid 3.55 avg rating — 4,296 ratings
141.
Het behouden huis
Het behouden huis 3.47 avg rating — 4,133 ratings
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Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth 4.21 avg rating — 8,568 ratings
143.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,920 ratings
144.
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris 3.54 avg rating — 8,101 ratings
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The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating — 226,250 ratings
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 3.98 avg rating — 10,473 ratings
146.
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 4,921 ratings
148.
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience 4.30 avg rating — 2,881 ratings
149.
The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was 3.96 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 552,011 ratings
151.
A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2)
A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2) 3.95 avg rating — 59,188 ratings
152.
To Hell and Back
To Hell and Back 4.26 avg rating — 8,645 ratings
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Yellow Star
Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating — 16,227 ratings
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The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt 3.84 avg rating — 976 ratings
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Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers 4.26 avg rating — 5,416 ratings
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Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 4.15 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story 3.96 avg rating — 3,025 ratings
158.
They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II
They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II 4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
158.
Coral Hare: Atomic Agent
Coral Hare: Atomic Agent
by: Clive Lee
4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
158.
Risking Exposure
Risking Exposure 4.06 avg rating — 127 ratings
158.
Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War
Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
158.
Heroes Of Tobruk
Heroes Of Tobruk 3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
158.
First Light
First Light 4.53 avg rating — 3,658 ratings
158.
The Altered I: Memoir of Joseph Kempler, Holocaust Survivor
The Altered I: Memoir of Joseph Kempler, Holocaust Survivor 4.22 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses
The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses 4.01 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
158.
Unknown Soldiers
Unknown Soldiers 4.07 avg rating — 7,968 ratings
158.
Stalingrad: The Loneliest Death
Stalingrad: The Loneliest Death 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
158.
Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe 4.71 avg rating — 1,767 ratings
158.
Spear-Carrier in a Backwater War
Spear-Carrier in a Backwater War 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
158.
End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
158.
Moonlight (Rose of Anzio, #1)
Moonlight (Rose of Anzio, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 720 ratings
158.
Rose of Anzio - Jalousie (Volume 2): A WWII Epic Love Story
Rose of Anzio - Jalousie (Volume 2): A WWII Epic Love Story 4.33 avg rating — 285 ratings
158.
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
158.
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings
158.
Love, Bill: Finding My Father through Letters from World War II
Love, Bill: Finding My Father through Letters from World War II 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
158.
The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective
The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Hooper's War
Hooper's War 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
158.
El violí d'Auschwitz
El violí d'Auschwitz 3.63 avg rating — 5,627 ratings
158.
Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50
Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50 4.22 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Cypher Bureau
The Cypher Bureau 4.32 avg rating — 82 ratings
158.
The Things We Cannot Say
The Things We Cannot Say 4.54 avg rating — 247,353 ratings
158.
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II 3.87 avg rating — 293 ratings
158.
World War II: Behind Closed Doors; Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
World War II: Behind Closed Doors; Stalin, the Nazis, and the West 4.25 avg rating — 831 ratings
158.
Rommel and His Art of War
Rommel and His Art of War 4.25 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past 3.74 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man 4.46 avg rating — 7,237 ratings
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Gallows Field
Gallows Field really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze 4.44 avg rating — 239 ratings
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They Called Him Marvin
They Called Him Marvin 4.44 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Escape to Honor (Honour)
Escape to Honor (Honour) 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog 4.21 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Moondrop to Gascony
Moondrop to Gascony 4.15 avg rating — 81 ratings
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 4.12 avg rating — 11,548 ratings
192.
Beyond the Wire
Beyond the Wire 4.32 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs 4.30 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Lamb Of Legacy
Lamb Of Legacy 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans
A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans 4.26 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Famous Last Words
Famous Last Words 3.98 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 4.34 avg rating — 99,172 ratings
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