Must Read World War II Military History - European Theater of Operations (nonfiction)
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating β 136,013 ratings
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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 22,176 ratings 5. 
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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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.18 avg rating β 8,303 ratings 7. 
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War 4.57 avg rating β 301 ratings
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.26 avg rating β 4,612 ratings 9. 
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by:
Dick Winters
4.33 avg rating β 19,677 ratings 
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.48 avg rating β 10,569 ratings 12. 
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.36 avg rating β 15,511 ratings 13. 
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
by:
Cornelius Ryan
4.25 avg rating β 7,006 ratings 
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating β 144,581 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour 4.35 avg rating β 11,393 ratings
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II 4.24 avg rating β 4,921 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating β 31,441 ratings 25. 
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.29 avg rating β 6,833 ratings 26. 
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
by:
George Wilson
4.23 avg rating β 3,877 ratings 
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World 4.19 avg rating β 1,968 ratings
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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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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating β 215,185 ratings 34. 
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
by:
Donald L. Miller
4.21 avg rating β 9,584 ratings 35. 
Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division 1943-1945
by:
Skyler Bailey
4.74 avg rating β 23 ratings 36. 
A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge 4.16 avg rating β 2,005 ratings
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.14 avg rating β 19,738 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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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945
by:
Richard Overy
4.21 avg rating β 2,549 ratings 52. 
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
by:
Adam Makos
4.38 avg rating β 27,205 ratings 53. 
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
by:
Richard J. Evans
4.39 avg rating β 5,926 ratings 54. 
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
by:
Steve Snyder
4.21 avg rating β 8,568 ratings 55. 
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 3.98 avg rating β 10,473 ratings
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The Americans at D-Day: The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion
by:
John C. McManus
4.24 avg rating β 348 ratings 58. 
The Lions of Carentan: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945
by:
Volker Griesser
4.09 avg rating β 138 ratings 59. 
Tigers In The Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
by:
Otto Carius
4.07 avg rating β 1,581 ratings 
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After Hitler: The Last Days of World War Two in Europe
by:
Michael Jones
3.96 avg rating β 448 ratings 
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945
by:
Leo Marks
4.25 avg rating β 2,631 ratings 67. 
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitlerβs Atomic Bomb
by:
Neal Bascomb
4.24 avg rating β 5,907 ratings 69. 
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
by:
David Howarth
4.08 avg rating β 10,341 ratings 
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The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.13 avg rating β 2,106 ratings 
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Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer
by:
Kurt Meyer
4.11 avg rating β 280 ratings 
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
by:
Max Hastings
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,473 ratings 76. 
Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945 4.01 avg rating β 140 ratings
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.03 avg rating β 22,519 ratings 
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by:
Ben Macintyre
3.99 avg rating β 13,561 ratings 85. 
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
by:
Vasily Grossman
4.19 avg rating β 3,620 ratings 
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The Bombers and The Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe 1940-1945
by:
Richard Overy
3.88 avg rating β 323 ratings 90. 
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City
by:
Alexandra Richie
4.41 avg rating β 405 ratings 90. 
My Just War: The Memoir of a Jewish Red Army Soldier in World War II
by:
Gabriel Temkin
3.96 avg rating β 25 ratings 
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes 4.17 avg rating β 560 ratings
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Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
by:
Hans von Luck
4.21 avg rating β 4,690 ratings 96. 
The Victors : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II 4.06 avg rating β 3,976 ratings
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
by:
Randall Hansen
3.96 avg rating β 293 ratings 