Best Non-fiction War Books
101. 
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 3.98 avg rating β 10,473 ratings
102. 
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 4.20 avg rating β 3,015 ratings
103. 
HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
by:
Mark Bowden
4.33 avg rating β 7,777 ratings 104. 
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
by:
Doug Stanton
4.15 avg rating β 8,711 ratings 
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108. 
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
by:
Mark Owen
4.03 avg rating β 56,925 ratings 109. 
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
4.30 avg rating β 24,822 ratings 110. 
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating β 19,529 ratings
111. 
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 27,203 ratings 112. 
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by:
Anthony Shadid
4.15 avg rating β 913 ratings 
115. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating β 131,990 ratings 
117. 
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.31 avg rating β 6,885 ratings 
119. 
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II 4.49 avg rating β 11,894 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 22,515 ratings 
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125. 
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
by:
Max Hastings
4.25 avg rating β 1,900 ratings 126. 
From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava (Lava #1)
by:
Jay Kopelman
4.10 avg rating β 7,724 ratings 
130. 
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
by:
Bernard B. Fall
4.30 avg rating β 2,148 ratings 
132. 
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 10,566 ratings 133. 
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
by:
Tim O'Brien
3.96 avg rating β 11,657 ratings 134. 
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939β45 4.25 avg rating β 79,654 ratings
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The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
by:
Pete Blaber
4.33 avg rating β 5,724 ratings 138. 
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
by:
Don Malarkey
4.31 avg rating β 4,695 ratings 
140. 
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.26 avg rating β 9,818 ratings 
142. 
Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
by:
David Fraser
4.13 avg rating β 2,107 ratings 143. 
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
3.87 avg rating β 46,525 ratings 
145. 
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating β 66,204 ratings 146. 
147. 
Wings of Destiny: A USS Enterprise Naval Adventure Novel (Fightin'est Ship in WWII series Book 1)
by:
Scott W. Cook
4.31 avg rating β 2,098 ratings 
148. 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.06 avg rating β 80,994 ratings 150. 
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating β 35,953 ratings
151. 
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by:
Jeremy Scahill
3.81 avg rating β 8,291 ratings 
153. 
Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
by:
Miriam Gebhardt
4.30 avg rating β 332 ratings 
155. 
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
by:
Eric Greitens
4.12 avg rating β 9,613 ratings 156. 
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.03 avg rating β 61,477 ratings 157. 
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
by:
Bob Drury
4.43 avg rating β 4,529 ratings 
160. 
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by:
Richard J. Evans
4.31 avg rating β 11,557 ratings 161. 
162. 
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 12,934 ratings
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The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World 4.20 avg rating β 308 ratings
166. 
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
by:
Hans von Luck
4.21 avg rating β 4,689 ratings 167. 
169. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating β 52,417 ratings 
171. 
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by:
Sherry Sontag
4.23 avg rating β 10,807 ratings 172. 
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
by:
Cornelius Ryan
4.25 avg rating β 7,005 ratings 173. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating β 148,980 ratings
175. 
Behavior Reports: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel (USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series Book 5)
by:
Scott W. Cook
4.39 avg rating β 1,735 ratings 
177. 
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
by:
G.J. Meyer
4.37 avg rating β 8,753 ratings 
179. 
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
by:
John Toland
4.30 avg rating β 5,936 ratings 180. 
Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
by:
Jack Coughlin
4.01 avg rating β 4,921 ratings 181. 
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 4.11 avg rating β 22,316 ratings
182. 
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
by:
Howard E. Wasdin
4.06 avg rating β 17,998 ratings 183. 
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
by:
Albrecht Wacker
4.21 avg rating β 3,507 ratings 
185. 
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
by:
Robert M. Edsel
3.80 avg rating β 51,849 ratings 186. 
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
by:
Dan Schilling
4.31 avg rating β 6,135 ratings 187. 
In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front 4.14 avg rating β 1,106 ratings
189. 
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
by:
Buzz Bissinger
3.80 avg rating β 3,745 ratings 190. 
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 9,583 ratings 191. 
Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
by:
John D. Lukacs
4.23 avg rating β 1,268 ratings 192. 
A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors And the Occupation of Iraq
by:
Gerry Schumacher
3.68 avg rating β 78 ratings 193. 
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.41 avg rating β 3,586 ratings 194. 
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