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Books like No Holding Back

24 books recommended for fans of No Holding Back by Brian A. Reid, tied together by themes of Canada, World War II, Wars & Conflicts, and Military.

Canada World War II Wars & Conflicts Military History

Top related books to No Holding Back

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of No Holding Back.

Joining the Grey Funnel Line The Story of a Canadian Boy Who Entered the Royal Navy in World War II at the Age of Fifteen — Saies-Jones Frank Saies-Jones

Joining the Grey Funnel Line The Story of a Canadian Boy Who Entered the Royal Navy in World War II at the Age of Fifteen

Saies-Jones Frank Saies-Jones

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Forgotten Victory First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45 — Mark Zuehlke

Forgotten Victory First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944-45

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

And No Birds Sang — Farley Mowat

And No Birds Sang

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Sand & Steel The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France — Peter Caddick-Adams

Sand & Steel The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France

Peter Caddick-Adams

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Juno Beach 3rd Canadian & 79th Armoured Divisions — Tim Saunders

Juno Beach 3rd Canadian & 79th Armoured Divisions

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Notes Soldier’s Memoir of World War I — Clifton J. Cate

Notes Soldier’s Memoir of World War I

Clifton J. Cate

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Villa Air-Bel World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille — Rosemary Sullivan

Villa Air-Bel World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

Rosemary Sullivan

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Life as a POW What My Father Never Told Me — Duncan John Pringle

Life as a POW What My Father Never Told Me

Duncan John Pringle

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943 Orsogna, San Pietro and Ortona — Pier Paolo Battistelli

The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943 Orsogna, San Pietro and Ortona

Pier Paolo Battistelli

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Good Allies How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War — Tim Cook

The Good Allies How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Cinderella Campaign First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports — Mark Zuehlke

The Cinderella Campaign First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Great Escape A Canadian Story — Ted Barris

The Great Escape A Canadian Story

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Mosquito Intruder — Dave McIntosh

Mosquito Intruder

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Hitlerjugend Soldier Vs Canadian Soldier Normandy 1944 — David Greentree

Hitlerjugend Soldier Vs Canadian Soldier Normandy 1944

David Greentree

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Cargo of Lies The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada — Dean Beeby

Cargo of Lies The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Not Bloody Likely! — Owen Jack Bollam

Not Bloody Likely!

Owen Jack Bollam

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Force The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible — Saul David

The Force The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Mobilize! Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War — Larry D. Rose

Mobilize! Why Canada Was Unprepared for the Second World War

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Accidental Captives The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany — Carolyn Gossage

The Accidental Captives The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany

Carolyn Gossage

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Unlikely Soldiers — Jonathan Vance

Unlikely Soldiers

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Canada In Flanders V3 (1916) — Charles George Douglas Roberts

Canada In Flanders V3 (1916)

Charles George Douglas Roberts

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland — Jim Defede

The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Necessary War, Volume 1 Canadians Fighting The Second World War:1939-1943 — Tim Cook

The Necessary War, Volume 1 Canadians Fighting The Second World War:1939-1943

Themes: Canada • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Great Halifax Explosion A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism — John U. Bacon

The Great Halifax Explosion A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

Themes: Canada • Wars & Conflicts • Military

If No Holding Back by Brian A. Reid is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Canada, World War II, Wars & Conflicts and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Saies-Jones Frank Saies-Jones, Mark Zuehlke, Farley Mowat, Peter Caddick-Adams, and others.

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