Books like Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand · Biography

Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.

Shares war and survival with Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing · History

In 1914, Ernest Shackleton led twenty-seven men into the Weddell Sea on a ship called the Endurance with the goal of crossing Antarctica on foot.

Shares survival and leadership with Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.

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Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann · History

In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.

A kindred history read.

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The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson · Memoir

Isabel Wilkerson's account of the Great Migration — the movement of six million Black Americans from the South to the North and West between 1915 and 1970 — is one of the most important works of narrative nonfiction published in the twenty-first century.

A kindred history read.

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American Prometheus

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · Biography

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A kindred history read.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque · History

All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides · History

In 1879, the USS Jeannette sailed from San Francisco into the Arctic under the command of Lieutenant George Washington De Long, on a mission to reach the North Pole.

Shares survival and leadership with Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah · Memoir

Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when the Sierra Leone civil war reached his village and he was separated from his family.

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Dare to Lead

Brené Brown · Business

Dare to Lead is Brené Brown's application of her research on vulnerability and courage to the specific context of leadership.

Shares leadership and courage with Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank · Memoir

Anne Frank's diary, kept during the two years she spent hiding with her family in a concealed Amsterdam apartment, stands as one of the most widely read first-person accounts of the Holocaust.

Shares war and survival with Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.

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The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom · Memoir

Corrie ten Boom's memoir of her family's decision to hide Jewish people in their Haarlem home during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and of the arrest, imprisonment, and concentration camp ordeal that followed, has been continuously in print since its 1971 publication and is one of the most widely read Christian testimonies of the twentieth century.

Shares survival and courage with Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.

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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

Wladyslaw Szpilman · Memoir

The Pianist is Wladyslaw Szpilman's account of surviving the German occupation of Warsaw from 1939 to 1945.

Shares war and survival with Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.