6 must-read military fiction books like The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic by Joseph J. Kassabian

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The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic

By: Joseph J. Kassabian

4.31

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

“Not Every War Story is Heroic” During the peak of the Afghanistan War, a group of soldiers is drop…

If you liked the military fiction plot in The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic by Joseph J. Kassabian , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Elephant in the Room

By: Jon Ronson

3.77

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

“But Hillary is a known Luciferian,” he tried.“She’s not a known Luciferian,” I said.“Well, yes and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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2. One Soldier's War in Chechnya

By: Nick Allen , Arkady Babchenko , Аркадий Бабченко

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A vivid, autobiographical account of what life was like for a young soldier in Russia's Chechen war… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

By: None , Larry Heinemann , Julia Whitby , Robin Whitby , Svetlana Alexievich

4.30

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
"There’s not much humanity in a human being — that’s what war taught me."

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Jenže já tam nechal krev… Svou… I cizí… Dávali nám vyznamenání, která nenosíme…"

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Dreptul omului de a nu ucide. De a nu învața să ucidă. Neînscris în nicio constituție."

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Každá stránka Zinkových chlapců volá: lidé, nedopusťte, aby se tento krvavý zlý sen opakoval!"

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

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4. Casino

By: Nicholas Pileggi

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the author of the best-selling Mafia expose, Wiseguy, comes this inside story of the billion-d… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war

6. War

By: Sebastian Junger

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm,Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantl… read more

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7. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

By: Mary Roach

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

Grunttackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion… read more

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8. How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

By: Rosa Brooks

3.80

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is e… read more

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9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir

By: H. Jon Benjamin

3.68

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

"Writing this funny requires immense talent."--AV Club H. Jon Benjamin--the lead voice behind A… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)

By: Serj Tankian

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. After The Revolution

By: Robert Evans

4.31

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-se… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. Hubert Vernon Rudolph Cla… read more

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  • audiobook
"YA doesn't get librarians fired!"

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"Death is cured! USA! USA! USA!" “This is Canada."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"We can live like it's the first days of a better world, not the like it's the first pages of an Ayn Rand novel. Have this place, but you can't have us. We withdraw our company."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"She was in the zone, a human copressor for a complex system that used machines as a nervous system to wire together the intelligence of a global crowd of people she loved with all her heart."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

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15. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

By: Kevin Grange

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic

By: Joseph J. Kassabian

4.31

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

“Not Every War Story is Heroic” During the peak of the Afghanistan War, a group of soldiers is drop… read more

Similar categories in Joseph J. Kassabian's The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic book and Joseph J. Kassabian's The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Frontier Corps (Forlorn Hope #1)

By: Joe Kassabian

4.32

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

They fight the wars nobody else wants to.The Frontier Corps are the Terran Empire's repository for … read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
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18. Wings of Fire: A Combat History of the F-15

By: Mike Guardia

4.08

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

From Israel to Afghanistan...the definitive combat history of the F-15 Eagle and Strike Eagle For m… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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19. Invisible War: A Military Sci-Fi Series (The Undying Legion Book 1)

By: Joe Kassabian

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Their minds stolen. Uploaded into war-machines. They fight a secret war to preserve humanity.What i… read more

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20. The Prisoner's Dilemma: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Liberty of Death Book 1)

By: Joe Kassabian

4.03

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Galaxy is on fire, there are no heroes... Vincent Solaris is a teenager drifting through l… read more

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  • military fiction
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21. The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic

By: Joseph Kassabian

4.47

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

An Army combat veteran's personal account of his time in service during the Afghan War with an unco… read more

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Jon Ronson

3.77

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

4.20

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H. Jon Benjamin

3.68

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Ian W. Toll

4.61

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

Rick Atkinson

4.29

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

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Andrew Roberts

4.23

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