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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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4.31 avg rating — 31,578 ratings
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Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
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4.21 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
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4.12 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
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4.32 avg rating — 47 ratings
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War Dog
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4.28 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
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4.28 avg rating — 21,561 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.16 avg rating — 21,899 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,000,972 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
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4.27 avg rating — 11,789 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
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4.39 avg rating — 12,174 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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4.24 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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4.15 avg rating — 20,552 ratings
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
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4.09 avg rating — 10,722 ratings
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DEAD WAKE
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4.13 avg rating — 162,638 ratings
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A Horse in My Kit Bag
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Laugh or Cry
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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War
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4.25 avg rating — 24,247 ratings
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
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4.53 avg rating — 6,795 ratings
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Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
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4.42 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
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4.31 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
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4.05 avg rating — 3,623 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
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4.28 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
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4.19 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,213,686 ratings
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The Meal Deal - Blaze Your Own Trail to a Healthier Eating Lifestyle
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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My Time in the War: An Irishwoman's Diary
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lamb Of Legacy
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4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Escape to Honor (Honour)
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,370,541 ratings
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The Meal Deal : Blaze Your Own Trail to a Healthier Eating Lifestyle
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship
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3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Man Who Never Was
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3.97 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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Is Paris Burning?
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4.15 avg rating — 4,099 ratings
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One Man And His Dog
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4.56 avg rating — 437 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
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4.33 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
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4.14 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
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4.08 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
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3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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3.95 avg rating — 15,416 ratings
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Rommel: The Trail of the Fox
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4.05 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Lost Souls of the River Kwai: Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
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4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Flak : True Stories from the Men Who Flew in World War Two
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4.05 avg rating — 146 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
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4.04 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Destruction of Dresden
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4.03 avg rating — 280 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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4.21 avg rating — 8,595 ratings
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
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4.23 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
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4.13 avg rating — 27,925 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 85,158 ratings
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The Emperor's Sea Eagle
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3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Patton: A Genius for War
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4.25 avg rating — 4,342 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
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4.22 avg rating — 63,580 ratings
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Three Days at the Brink
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4.22 avg rating — 1,910 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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3.87 avg rating — 46,935 ratings
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
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4.57 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed
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3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
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4.23 avg rating — 25,291 ratings
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The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
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4.23 avg rating — 2,445 ratings
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The Strange Death of Heinrich Himmler: A Forensic Investigation
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2.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
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4.34 avg rating — 26,217 ratings
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Alicia: My Story
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4.15 avg rating — 11,774 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.25 avg rating — 54,420 ratings
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The Raft: The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea
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4.09 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
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4.33 avg rating — 20,257 ratings
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The Great Escape
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4.22 avg rating — 10,611 ratings
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Wallenberg: Missing Hero
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4.17 avg rating — 777 ratings
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The Railway Man
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4.13 avg rating — 8,198 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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4.26 avg rating — 39,818 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Loneliest Death
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4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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My Lost Childhood: How Hitler and the Freemasons stole my childhood
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
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4.16 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
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3.82 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island
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4.38 avg rating — 610 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
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4.08 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir
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4.37 avg rating — 728 ratings
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The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II
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3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Trapped at Pearl Harbor: Escape from Battleship Oklahoma
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4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
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3.54 avg rating — 497 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
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3.50 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
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4.15 avg rating — 2,723 ratings
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A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice
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4.30 avg rating — 342 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
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4.04 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
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3.98 avg rating — 12,361 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.50 avg rating — 48,121 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
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4.36 avg rating — 11,742 ratings
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The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
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4.16 avg rating — 856 ratings
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Of War & Weddings; A Legacy of Two Fathers
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4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
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4.46 avg rating — 1,981 ratings
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
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3.97 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
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4.36 avg rating — 7,949 ratings
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 4,142 ratings
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Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940-45
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4.03 avg rating — 439 ratings
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The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
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3.71 avg rating — 592 ratings
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The Victors : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
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4.06 avg rating — 4,037 ratings
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Under the Red Sea sun
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4.50 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
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4.19 avg rating — 975 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
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3.74 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
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4.35 avg rating — 6,521 ratings
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Defying Hitler
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4.35 avg rating — 5,749 ratings
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
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4.18 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz:"
"Anne Frank's Diary;"
And several others who usually top lists of this type.
At least I am glad to see that John Boyne's "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is not on this list -- see my devastating review of same.
I am also used to the fact that my book, "Memories of Evil -- Recalling a World War II Childhood" is never on any of these lists, in spite of the fact that it received a number 5-star reviews on my Amazon book page. I admit that some of these reviews are by people I know, but a number of them are by people I never heard of.
Looking over the above list again, I must tell you that "Debunking Holocaust-Denial Theories" is the only one I ever heard of. I never heard of any one of the eight other books listed.