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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 141,962 ratings — published 1992
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 590,937 ratings — published -500
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 49,555 ratings — published 1981
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 535,540 ratings — published 1928
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,978 ratings — published 1962
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 152,089 ratings — published 1960
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,013,532 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,394,769 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,297,013 ratings — published 1947
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,128 ratings — published 1999
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 254,850 ratings — published 2005
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 57,118 ratings — published 1997
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 353,809 ratings — published 1990
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,207,149 ratings — published 2018
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,049,551 ratings — published 2014
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,847 ratings — published 1976
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,743 ratings — published 1998
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 996,577 ratings — published 2006
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,857 ratings — published 1957
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,360 ratings — published 1946
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 923,678 ratings — published 1946
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,955,191 ratings — published 2005
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 11,199 ratings — published 2012
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 93,740 ratings — published 1974
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,804 ratings — published 1832
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,850 ratings — published 2005
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,782 ratings — published 1991
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,067 ratings — published 1997
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,640 ratings — published 2006
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,982 ratings — published 1994
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,740 ratings — published 1988
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 16,527 ratings — published 1977
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 142,583 ratings — published 2020
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,856 ratings — published 2004
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,677 ratings — published 2011
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,433 ratings — published 2015
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,572 ratings — published 2010
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,572 ratings — published 2010
A History of Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,684 ratings — published 1993
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,496 ratings — published 2006
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,419 ratings — published 2020
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,674 ratings — published 2018
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,354 ratings — published 2012
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,318,098 ratings — published 2015
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,875 ratings — published 1948
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,312 ratings — published 2014
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 28,452 ratings — published 2012
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,712 ratings — published 2013
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,300 ratings — published 2006
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,545 ratings — published 1998
“There is a quality in the people of Dover that may well be the key to the coming German disaster. They are incorrigibly, incorruptibly unimpressed. The German, with his uniform and his pageantry and his threats and plans, does not impress these people at all. The Dover man has taken perhaps a little more pounding than most, not in great blitzes, but in every-day bombing and shelling, and still he is not impressed. Jerry is like the weather to him. He complains about it and then promptly goes on with what he was doing...Weather and Jerry are alike in that they are inconvenient and sometimes make messes. Surveying a building wrecked by a big shell, he says, "Jerry was bad last night," as he would discuss a windstorm.”
― Once There Was a War
― Once There Was a War
“The most effective move would be to send the tanks with infantry west of Bolshaya Belozerka” Commander Smirnov proposed. “Enemy units there are nearly destroyed — we could threaten a real encirclement.”
“That won’t be possible,” the chief of staff objected. “A combat order has just arrived from фронт headquarters: the 15th Tank Brigade, the 530th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, and the 30th Cavalry Division are are redeployed to support the 12th Army near Pavlograd, where the situation is critical.”
Smirnov turned pale, then his eyes filled with blood. “Damn it!” he slammed his fist on the table. “We needed just two more days. Without tanks now, we’re helpless.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: In 1941, rigid bureaucracy and centralized command in the Red Army often prevented commanders from exploiting battlefield opportunities. Delays, reassignments, and fear of independent decisions frequently led to disastrous outcomes.”
― Камень. Биографический роман. Книга вторая. Непростые дороги в ад: Выживание в условиях насилия
“That won’t be possible,” the chief of staff objected. “A combat order has just arrived from фронт headquarters: the 15th Tank Brigade, the 530th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, and the 30th Cavalry Division are are redeployed to support the 12th Army near Pavlograd, where the situation is critical.”
Smirnov turned pale, then his eyes filled with blood. “Damn it!” he slammed his fist on the table. “We needed just two more days. Without tanks now, we’re helpless.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: In 1941, rigid bureaucracy and centralized command in the Red Army often prevented commanders from exploiting battlefield opportunities. Delays, reassignments, and fear of independent decisions frequently led to disastrous outcomes.”
― Камень. Биографический роман. Книга вторая. Непростые дороги в ад: Выживание в условиях насилия