Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide
10 best books like Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide (Jonathan Dimbleby): Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Forgotten Voices of the Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There, Survivors of Stalingrad: Eyewitness Accounts from the 6th Army, 1942-43, The War in the West: A New History Volume 2, . the Allies Fight Back 1941-43, Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed, Dunkirk - The Men They Left Behind, The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa, 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II, Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General, Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944, The Germans in Normandy
| Author | Antony Beevor |
| ISBN | 0670918660 |
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of...
| Author | Max Arthur |
| ISBN | 0091897343 |
The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly acclaimed "Forgotten Voices of the Great War", Max Arthur and his team of researchers will spend hundreds of hours digging deep into...
Survivors of Stalingrad: Eyewitness Accounts from the 6th Army, 1942-43
In November 1942 - in a devastating counter-attack from outside the city - Soviet forces smashed the German siege and encircled Stalingrad, trapping some 290,000 soldiers of the 6th Army inside.For nearly three months, during the harshest part of the Russian winter, the German troops endured atrocious...
| Author | James Holland |
| ISBN | 0593071670 |
In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941–1943: Hitler’s invasion of Russia; America’s entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts...
| Author | Michael Jones |
| ISBN | 1844155439 |
If you're looking for a complete book on the Battle of Stalingrad, this isn't the book for you and it doesn't claim to be. However, if you're looking for a book which gives you insight into the Soviet mindset before and during the battle you've come to the right place.
This book predominantly deals...
| Author | Sean Longden |
| ISBN | 1845299779 |
At 2AM on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940, General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside, holding onto his megaphone and called “Is anyone there? Is anyone there?” before turning his boat back towards England. Tradition tells us that the dramatic events of the evacuation of Dunkirk,...
| Author | Bill Sloan |
| ISBN | 0743292464 |
"The Ultimate Battle" is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told. With the same "grunt's-eye-view" narrative style that distinguished his Brotherhood of Heroes (on the Battle of Peleliu), Bill Sloan presents a gripping and uniquely personal saga of heroism...
| Author | Mungo Melvin |
| ISBN | 0297845616 |
Among students of military history, the genius of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein (1887–1973) is respected perhaps more than that of any other World War II soldier. He displayed his strategic brilliance in such campaigns as the invasion of Poland, the Blitzkrieg of France, the sieges of Sevastopol,...
Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
| Author | Max Hastings |
| ISBN | 0760344914 |
World-renowned British historian Sir Max Hastings recounts one of the most horrific months of World War II.
June 1944, the month of the D-Day landings carried out by Allied forces in Normandy, France. Germany’s 2nd SS Panzer Division, one of Adolf Hitler’s most elite armor units, had...
"The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded from the attackers’ point of view whereas the defenders’ angle has been largely ignored.While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no-one knew where...
| Author | John C. McManus |
| ISBN | 0471739057 |
At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge—the story of five crucial days in which small groups of American soldiers, some outnumbered ten to one, slowed the German advance and allowed the Belgian town of Bastogne to be reinforced. Alamo...
The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941
| Author | Gavin Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0425211835 |
The Longest Night reveals the untold story of the horrific bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse - using extensive survivors' testimony and previously classified documents to reveal just how close the Luftwaffe came to total victory. This vivid, dramatically told account...
| Author | Patrick Bishop |
| ISBN | 0007319231 |
A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler’s most terrifying battleship – the legendary Tirpitz – and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi’s fearsome war machine.
Tirpitz was the pride of Hitler’s navy. To Churchill, she...
Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted.'One of the most creative intelligence operations of all time' – Kim PhilbyThe story of how this web was woven is one of intrigue, personal drama, ground-breaking...
The War of Wars: The Great European Conflict 1793 - 1815
| Author | Robert Harvey |
| ISBN | 0786718579 |
At the turn of the 18th century the greatest nations in Europe, separated by only 21 miles of water, offered history two distinct ideals that would shape the new century: England was a democratic, constitutional monarchy; while France had suffered the cataclysm of Revolution which ripped the absolute...
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943
| Author | Lloyd Clark |
| ISBN | 0802119085 |
Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk--on the border of the Soviet Union--for an epic confrontation, the epitome of "total war." With unprecedented access to the journals and testimonials of the officers, soldiers, political leaders, and citizens...
| Author | Dan Kurzman |
| ISBN | 0399116923 |
In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich Himmler, who ordered in 1942 that the Warsaw Ghetto be dismantled...
Enigma: The Battle for the Code
| Author | Hugh Sebag-Montefiore |
| ISBN | 0471490350 |
Winston Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code "the secret weapon that won the war." Now, for the first time, noted British journalist Hugh-Sebag-Montefiore reveals the complete story of the breaking of the code by the Allies--the breaking that played a crucial role in the outcome...
Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941–44
| Author | Robert Forczyk |
| ISBN | 1782006257 |
With Russian troops moving in to seize the Crimea in 2014, it would be worth remembering that this is not the first time that Moscow has used force to seize the Crimea. This book is based upon years of research and examines not just the Second World War in the Crimea, but the reasons that the Russians covet...
