Read-alikes and related books

Books like Overlord

If you loved Overlord by Max Hastings, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in France, World War II, Wars & Conflicts, and Modern.

France World War II Wars & Conflicts Modern 20th Century Europe History

Top related books to Overlord

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Overlord.

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

Peter Caddick-Adams

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

An American Heroine in the French Resistance The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D’Albert-Lake — Virginia d’ Albert-Lake

Virginia d' Albert-Lake

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

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

Rosemary Sullivan

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

A Train in Winter A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Escape from Paris A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France

Stephen Harding

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Hiding in Plain Sight Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France

Sarah Lew Miller

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

D-Day Illustrated Edition June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

Stephen E. Ambrose

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

All Against All The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

Paul Jankowski

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Art of Resistance My Four Years in the French Underground: a Memoir

Justus Rosenberg

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#10

A Good Place to Hide How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II

Peter Grose

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#11

Paris After the Liberation 1944 – 1949

Antony Beevor

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#12

The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944

Jacques Adler

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#13

Sudden Courage Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945

Ronald C. Rosbottom

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#14

The Vanished Collection

Pauline Baer de Perignon

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#15

An Iron Wind Europe Under Hitler

Peter Fritzsche

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#16

France on Trial The Case of Marshal Pétain

Julian Jackson

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#17

Normandy ’44 D-Day and the Battle for France

James Holland

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#18

Operation Biting: the 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar

Max Hastings

Themes: World War II • Wars & Conflicts • Modern

#19

Fighting for the French Foreign Legion Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire

Alex Lochrie

Themes: France • Wars & Conflicts • Modern

#20

Verdun 1916 The Deadliest Battle of the First World War

William F. Buckingham

Themes: France • Wars & Conflicts • Modern

#21

Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism Legacies of French Colonialism

Alec G. Hargreaves

Themes: France • Wars & Conflicts • Modern

#22

Neighbours of Passage A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882-1932

Fabrice Langrognet

Themes: France • Wars & Conflicts • Modern

#23

Normandy ’44 D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

James Holland

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#24

Mers El-Kébir 1940 Operation Catapult

Ryan K. Noppen

Themes: France • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Overlord by Max Hastings — spanning France, World War II, Wars & Conflicts and featuring authors such as Peter Caddick-Adams, Virginia d' Albert-Lake, Rosemary Sullivan, Caroline Moorehead, and others.