Best WWII Non-Fiction

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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories 4.11 avg rating — 149 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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War Dog
War Dog 4.29 avg rating — 2,047 ratings
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches 4.31 avg rating — 30,951 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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Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating — 20,491 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,283 ratings
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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
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War 4.23 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal 4.14 avg rating — 19,739 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 — 10,342 ratings
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DEAD WAKE
DEAD WAKE 4.13 avg rating — 157,330 ratings
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A Horse in My Kit Bag
A Horse in My Kit Bag 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Laugh or Cry
Laugh or Cry 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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War
War 4.25 avg rating — 23,759 ratings
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II 4.53 avg rating — 6,473 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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Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler 4.31 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
Baa Baa Black Sheep 4.04 avg rating — 3,552 ratings
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The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side
The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side 4.29 avg rating — 2,047 ratings
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Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero 4.24 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,765 ratings
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My Time in the War: An Irishwoman's Diary
My Time in the War: An Irishwoman's Diary 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lamb Of Legacy
Lamb Of Legacy 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Escape to Honor (Honour)
Escape to Honor (Honour) 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,371 ratings
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The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship
The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,304 ratings
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The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was 3.96 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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Is Paris Burning?
Is Paris Burning? 4.15 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
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One Man And His Dog
One Man And His Dog 4.56 avg rating — 435 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two 4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel 4.14 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror 4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 3.95 avg rating — 14,513 ratings
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Rommel: The Trail of the Fox
Rommel: The Trail of the Fox 4.05 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Lost Souls of the River Kwai: Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
Lost Souls of the River Kwai: Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
by: Bill Reed
4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Destruction of Dresden
The Destruction of Dresden 4.01 avg rating — 269 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
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing 4.25 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General 4.13 avg rating — 27,316 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,615 ratings
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The Emperor's Sea Eagle
The Emperor's Sea Eagle
by: Abe Zenji
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Patton: A Genius for War
Patton: A Genius for War 4.25 avg rating — 4,271 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers 4.22 avg rating — 62,884 ratings
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Three Days at the Brink
Three Days at the Brink 4.21 avg rating — 1,803 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
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II 3.87 avg rating — 46,528 ratings
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War 4.57 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed
Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific 4.23 avg rating — 24,391 ratings
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The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back 4.21 avg rating — 2,309 ratings
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The Strange Death of Heinrich Himmler: A Forensic Investigation
The Strange Death of Heinrich Himmler: A Forensic Investigation 2.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,785 ratings
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Alicia: My Story
Alicia: My Story 4.14 avg rating — 11,728 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,760 ratings
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The Raft: The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea
The Raft: The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea 4.09 avg rating — 670 ratings
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters 4.33 avg rating — 19,678 ratings
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The Great Escape
The Great Escape 4.22 avg rating — 10,407 ratings
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Wallenberg: Missing Hero
Wallenberg: Missing Hero 4.17 avg rating — 765 ratings
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The Railway Man
The Railway Man 4.13 avg rating — 7,981 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission 4.25 avg rating — 38,788 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Loneliest Death
Stalingrad: The Loneliest Death 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
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My Lost Childhood: How Hitler and the Freemasons stole my childhood
My Lost Childhood: How Hitler and the Freemasons stole my childhood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War 4.16 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic 3.83 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island 4.38 avg rating — 594 ratings
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The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery 4.07 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir
Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir 4.38 avg rating — 678 ratings
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The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II
The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Trapped at Pearl Harbor: Escape from Battleship Oklahoma
Trapped at Pearl Harbor: Escape from Battleship Oklahoma 4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
Unexplained Mysteries of World War II 3.54 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom Fighters
Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Phantom Fighters 3.47 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life 4.16 avg rating — 2,658 ratings
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A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice
A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice 4.31 avg rating — 331 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
The Forgotten Soldier
by: Guy Sajer
4.39 avg rating — 11,840 ratings
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II 3.98 avg rating — 12,184 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating — 45,849 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
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 — 11,394 ratings
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The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
by: Don Brown
4.16 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Of War & Weddings; A Legacy of Two Fathers
Of War & Weddings; A Legacy of Two Fathers 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won 4.46 avg rating — 1,852 ratings
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 3.96 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat 4.36 avg rating — 7,473 ratings
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II 4.14 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940-45
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940-45 4.04 avg rating — 438 ratings
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The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II 3.72 avg rating — 589 ratings
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The Victors : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
The Victors : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II 4.06 avg rating — 3,976 ratings
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Under the Red Sea sun
Under the Red Sea sun 4.51 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II 4.18 avg rating — 961 ratings
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Living with the Enemy: An outline of the German occupation of the Channel Islands with first hand accounts by people who remember the years 1940 to 1945
Living with the Enemy: An outline of the German occupation of the Channel Islands with first hand accounts by people who remember the years 1940 to 1945 3.72 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad 4.35 avg rating — 6,301 ratings
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Defying Hitler
Defying Hitler 4.34 avg rating — 5,357 ratings
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule 4.18 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 4.15 avg rating — 10,974 ratings
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 3.79 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II 4.48 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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