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May 1940: Destination Dunkirk: The Mission of a "Little Ship"
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4.69 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,213,755 ratings
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Daughter's War Understanding the History Better
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4.80 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,895,304 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 889,469 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
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4.31 avg rating — 1,990,918 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.23 avg rating — 149,104 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
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4.30 avg rating — 6,181 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 221,125 ratings
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Schindler’s List
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4.34 avg rating — 166,027 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 90,117 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,370,547 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 242,357 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
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3.59 avg rating — 236,709 ratings
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
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4.34 avg rating — 6,509 ratings
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The English Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 139,692 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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Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
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4.18 avg rating — 3,498 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,582 ratings
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The Second World War
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4.11 avg rating — 5,082 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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3.73 avg rating — 32,044 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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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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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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4.44 avg rating — 139,621 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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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,652 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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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (The Resistance #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 8,856 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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4.33 avg rating — 41,614 ratings
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Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 96,495 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
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4.22 avg rating — 63,580 ratings
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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
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4.21 avg rating — 10,164 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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4.31 avg rating — 66,487 ratings
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The Winds of War
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4.38 avg rating — 59,619 ratings
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
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4.28 avg rating — 4,896 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 62,095 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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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
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4.19 avg rating — 8,544 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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4.25 avg rating — 24,823 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 376,937 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 358,613 ratings
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
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4.24 avg rating — 3,961 ratings
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The Second World War
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4.40 avg rating — 10,863 ratings
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
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4.36 avg rating — 11,213 ratings
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
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4.23 avg rating — 4,963 ratings
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Crabwalk: A Powerful Historical Family Saga of the Deadliest Maritime Disaster and Its Legacy
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3.48 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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4.29 avg rating — 17,872 ratings
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The Third Man
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3.78 avg rating — 16,758 ratings
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An Artist of the Floating World
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3.78 avg rating — 46,304 ratings
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Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
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4.28 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division 1943-1945
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4.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 232,557 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
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4.28 avg rating — 21,561 ratings
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
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4.08 avg rating — 2,481 ratings
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
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4.21 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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4.03 avg rating — 92,985 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
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4.29 avg rating — 7,478 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
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4.06 avg rating — 33,227 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,000,976 ratings
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Decision in Normandy
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4.05 avg rating — 883 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
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4.35 avg rating — 257,899 ratings
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The Fall of Berlin 1945
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4.30 avg rating — 18,574 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 363,332 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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Alone In Berlin
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4.27 avg rating — 37,150 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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4.37 avg rating — 278,551 ratings
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BLOOD IN ZION: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British Out of Palestine
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4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Lions of the Desert (World War II #4)
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4.38 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Why the Allies Won
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4.19 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
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A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 60,049 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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4.17 avg rating — 49,160 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
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4.28 avg rating — 5,224 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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4.31 avg rating — 69,242 ratings
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The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness
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4.13 avg rating — 8,198 ratings
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Sarah's Key
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4.18 avg rating — 496,225 ratings
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
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4.27 avg rating — 4,807 ratings
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Auschwitz
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4.32 avg rating — 18,250 ratings
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Pegasus Bridge
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4.15 avg rating — 11,277 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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Medallions
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4.05 avg rating — 6,412 ratings
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HHhH
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4.08 avg rating — 28,416 ratings
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The American Heritage Picture History of World War II
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4.21 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
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3.93 avg rating — 7,767 ratings
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Fatherland
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4.03 avg rating — 56,946 ratings
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
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4.30 avg rating — 7,441 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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3.80 avg rating — 52,484 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 39,483 ratings
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Life and Fate
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4.46 avg rating — 15,657 ratings
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The Untouchable
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3.95 avg rating — 4,367 ratings
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Cryptonomicon
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4.23 avg rating — 117,156 ratings
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The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 2,154 ratings
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
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4.35 avg rating — 21,791 ratings
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
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3.93 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,853 ratings
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
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4.21 avg rating — 3,744 ratings
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The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
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4.25 avg rating — 756 ratings
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All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To
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3.73 avg rating — 742 ratings
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The Balkan Trilogy
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4.17 avg rating — 2,964 ratings
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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 6,260 ratings
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The Night I Danced with Rommel
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4.12 avg rating — 353 ratings
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