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If you loved The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

A Bridge Too Far

Cornelius Ryan

No. 2

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

No. 3

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Rick Atkinson

No. 4

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway

No. 5

Black Hawk Down

Mark Bowden

No. 6

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

Hampton Sides

No. 7

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

Doug Stanton

No. 8

Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

No. 9

Flags of Our Fathers

James D. Bradley, Ron Powers

No. 10

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

No. 11

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Eugene B. Sledge, Paul Fussell

No. 12

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman, Robert K. Massie

No. 13

The Pacific

Hugh Ambrose

No. 14

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

James D. Bradley

No. 15

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

No. 16

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

No. 17

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

Daniel J. Boorstin

No. 18

The First World War

John Keegan

No. 19

Battle Cry of Freedom

James M. McPherson

No. 20

Truman

David McCullough

No. 21

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

No. 22

1776

David McCullough

No. 23

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

No. 24

The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor