What to Read After The Day of Battle
Readers who loved The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Day of Battle is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Day of Battle
Citizen Soldiers
Longest Day
D-Day, June 6, 1944
The coldest winter
Armageddon
Band of Brothers
Pacific Crucible
Enemy at the Gates
Overlord
The Victors
An Army at Dawn
At dawn we slept
The Second World War
Eagle against the sun
Guadalcanal
The Guns at Last Light
The Third Reich at war
The last stand of the tin can sailors
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa
The Guns of August
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
Ghost soldiers
Six Armies in Normandy