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If you loved World War II by H. P. Willmott, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in World War II and Wars & Conflicts.

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A diverse selection of titles that share the core themes and atmosphere of World War II.

Road to Surrender Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II — Evan Thomas

Road to Surrender Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

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Rain of Ruin Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan — Richard Overy

Rain of Ruin Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan

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The Cactus Air Force Air War Over Guadalcanal — Eric Hammel

The Cactus Air Force Air War Over Guadalcanal

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The Knights of Bushido A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II — Edward Frederick Langley Russell

The Knights of Bushido A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II

Edward Frederick Langley Russell

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Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943 The USN and IJN Fight the Last Pure Surface Battle — Mark Lardas

Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943 The USN and IJN Fight the Last Pure Surface Battle

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Blossoms in the Wind Human Legacies of the Kamikaze — M. G. Sheftall

Blossoms in the Wind Human Legacies of the Kamikaze

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Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42 The IJN at Its Zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway — Mark Stille

Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42 The IJN at Its Zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway

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The Tokyo Trial — Zhaoqi Cheng

The Tokyo Trial

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The Reconquest of Burma 1944–45 From Operation Capital to the Sittang Bend — Robert Lyman

The Reconquest of Burma 1944–45 From Operation Capital to the Sittang Bend

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Tarawa The Incredible Story of One of World War II’s Bloodiest Battles — Robert Sherrod

Tarawa The Incredible Story of One of World War II’s Bloodiest Battles

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Fighting with the Fourteenth Army in Burma Original War Summaries of the Battle Against Japan 1943-1945 — James Luto

Fighting with the Fourteenth Army in Burma Original War Summaries of the Battle Against Japan 1943-1945

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Horror In The East Japan And The Atrocities Of World War 2 — Laurence Rees

Horror In The East Japan And The Atrocities Of World War 2

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Gold Warriors America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold — Peggy Seagrave

Gold Warriors America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

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Japan’s Longest Day Intrigue, Treason and Emperor Hirohito’s Fateful Decision to Surrender — Kazutoshi Hando

Japan’s Longest Day Intrigue, Treason and Emperor Hirohito’s Fateful Decision to Surrender

Kazutoshi Hando

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Judgment at Tokyo World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia — Gary J. Bass

Judgment at Tokyo World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

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Terasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan A Bridge to Reality — Roger B. Jeans

Terasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan A Bridge to Reality

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The Bomb The Weapon That Changed the World — Didier Alcante

The Bomb The Weapon That Changed the World

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A History of Japan in Manga — 金谷俊一郎

A History of Japan in Manga

金谷俊一郎

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Blazing Star, Setting Sun The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 — Jeffrey Cox

Blazing Star, Setting Sun The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943

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Nakajima Ki-49 ‘Helen’ Units — George Eleftheriou

Nakajima Ki-49 ‘Helen’ Units

George Eleftheriou

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War without Mercy Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER) — John Dower

War without Mercy Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER)

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Sunk The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945 — Mochitsura Hashimoto

Sunk The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945

Mochitsura Hashimoto

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Bloody Okinawa The Last Great Battle of World War II — Joseph Wheelan

Bloody Okinawa The Last Great Battle of World War II

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The Last Ships from Hamburg Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I — Steven Ujifusa

The Last Ships from Hamburg Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I

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A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for World War II by H. P. Willmott — spanning World War II, Wars & Conflicts and featuring authors such as Evan Thomas, Richard Overy, Eric Hammel, Edward Frederick Langley Russell, and others.

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