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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 143,639 ratings — published 1992
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,434 ratings — published 1981
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 543,558 ratings — published 1928
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 601,619 ratings — published -500
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 — 153,907 ratings — published 1960
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,080 ratings — published 1962
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,021,203 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,408,876 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,348,422 ratings — published 1947
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 258,503 ratings — published 2005
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,650 ratings — published 1997
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,611 ratings — published 1999
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 357,512 ratings — published 1990
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,225,235 ratings — published 2018
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,080,234 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,010,545 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 — 26,167 ratings — published 1957
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,470 ratings — published 1998
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,725 ratings — published 1946
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 946,898 ratings — published 1946
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,991,578 ratings — published 2005
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,910 ratings — published 1976
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,421 ratings — published 2012
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 20,901 ratings — published 2006
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 94,706 ratings — published 1974
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,928 ratings — published 1832
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 — 25,203 ratings — published 1997
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,374 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 — 12,814 ratings — published 1988
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 16,778 ratings — published 1977
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,345 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 — 10,905 ratings — published 2011
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,910 ratings — published 2005
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,745 ratings — published 2010
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,979 ratings — published 1991
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.76 — 5,607 ratings — published 2020
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 145,235 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 200,208 ratings — published 2018
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,755 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 — 7,476 ratings — published 2012
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,414,656 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,565 ratings — published 2015
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 — 28,526 ratings — published 2014
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,430 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,762 ratings — published 2004
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 59,407 ratings — published 2012
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 49,431 ratings — published 2010
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,895 ratings — published 1959
Vietnam: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,001 ratings — published 1983
The Korean War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,911 ratings — published 1987
“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