18 must-read biography books like The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience by Dan Pronk

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The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience

By: Dan Pronk

4.05

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a fr…

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1. The Crossroad

By: Mark Donaldson

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
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2. The Tournament

By: Matthew Reilly

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The year is 1546. Europe lives in fear of the powerful Islamic empire to the East. Under its charis… read more

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3. Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

By: Damien Brown

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A powerful, surprisingly funny, and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical front line,… read more

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4. Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

By: Andrew Thomson , None , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the early 1990s three young people attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN… read more

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5. Bye Bye Baby

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

It all began in Brighton. Now there is a killer on the loose. Scotland Yard's brightest talent is c… read more

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6. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • war
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

Cover of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson

7. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, California, 193… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

By: Ash Barty

4.23

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. Showing Up

By: Nedd Brockmann

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

11. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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12. Last Shot

By: Jock Zonfrillo

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert

13. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

By: David Nott

4.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more

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  • biography
  • medical
  • medicine
  • war
  • nonfiction
"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

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15. Badness

By: Gary Jubelin

4.08

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

The sequel to the #1 Bestseller I Catch Killers As a cop, I used to sit on one side of the inte… read more

Similar categories in Gary Jubelin's Badness book and Dan Pronk's The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. The Remarkable Mrs Reibey

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.03

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth

17. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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18. Battle Ready

By: Ollie Ollerton

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How do you make a commitment and achieve your goals?How do you end procrastination and hesitation t… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Commando: The life and death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG by Ben Mckelvey

19. The Commando: The life and death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG

By: Ben Mckelvey

4.49

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

'Corporal Baird was a modern-day warrior who set a standard that every soldier aspires to achieve.'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
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20. The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience

By: Dan Pronk

4.05

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a fr… read more

Similar categories in Dan Pronk's The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience book and Dan Pronk's The Combat Doctor: A story of battlefield medicine and resilience

  • biography
  • medical
  • medicine
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy

21. Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan

By: Mark Willacy

4.38

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's L… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
"[Excerpt from Brereton Report] We embarked on this Inquiry with the hope that we would be able to report that the rumours of war crimes were without substance. None of us desired the outcome to which…"

-Mark Willacy, Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan

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22. Scrubbed

By: Nikki Stamp

3.98

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki S… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. The Teacher's Pet

By: Hedley Thomas

4.14

Format: 619 pages, Kindle Edition

If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas take… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy

24. The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience

By: Peter Goldsworthy

3.76

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

‘My first stray cancer is a gift. I’m lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-write… read more

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  • medicine
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. Life and Death Decisions

By: Lachlan McIver

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan Mc… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. The Land Before Avocado

By: Richard Glover

3.91

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Austral… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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27. Stronger

By: Dinesh Palipana

4.32

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical scho… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. Great Australian Ambos Stories

By: Bill "Swampy" Marsh

3.61

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsigh… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline by Scott Ryder

29. Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline

By: Scott Ryder

4.79

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos.Garry made a report … read more

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  • biography
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30. Outrider

By: Mark Wales

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Dunne will do anything to save his son.A violent civil war. An unstoppable enemy. One road to … read more

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31. The Smack Track

By: Ian McPhedran

3.54

Format: 304 pages, ebook

From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists; the high energy … read more

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Mark Donaldson

4.43

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3.66

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Adam Kay

3.91

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