17 best-selling military fiction books like Danger Close: Commanding 3 PARA in Afghanistan by Stuart Tootal

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Danger Close: Commanding 3 PARA in Afghanistan

By: Stuart Tootal

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghan…

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1. Sniper One: The Blistering True Story Of A British Battle Group Under Siege

By: Dan Mills

4.29

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Sniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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2. Hellfire

By: Ed Macy

4.30

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The true story of one man's determination to master the world's deadliest helicopter and of a split… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. Apache. Ed Macy

By: Ed Macy

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Designed in the mid 1980s to take on the Soviets, the Apache is the most sophisticated fighting hel… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers

By: Craig Harrison , Craig Harrison

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
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5. Shoot to Kill: From 2 Para to the SAS

By: Michael Asher

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Michael Asher's investigation into the famous SAS operation, THE REAL BRAVO TWO ZERO was one of the… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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6. Immediate Response

By: Mark Hammond

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

From the heart of the Afghan Battlefield, a Chinook pilot's explosive true story read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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7. Dressed to Kill

By: Charlotte Madison

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

"My fingers close around the trigger. I pause for a split second to think about the bullets I am ab… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • war

8. Pathfinder

By: David Blakeley

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance... First in - the officia… read more

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9. Task Force Black

By: Mark Urban

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

When British and American forces invaded Iraq in April 2003, their intelligence operations got to w… read more

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10. A Million Bullets: The real story of the British Army in Afghanistan

By: James Fergusson

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In April 2006 a small British peace-keeping force was sent to Helmand province in southern Afghanis… read more

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11. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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12. Sweating the Metal: Flying Under Fire. A Chinook Pilot's Blistering Account of Life, Death and Dust in Afghanistan

By: Alex Duncan

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

With bullets flying, wounded soldiers scream out in pain as the Chinook comes in to land in one of … read more

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13. Scimitar into Stanley: One Soldier's Falklands War

By: Roger Field

4.34

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

In May 1982, Captain Roger Field, The Blues and Royals, attached to HQ 5th Infantry Brigade, sailed… read more

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  • military history
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14. Sand Wedges and Sugar Mice

By: Roger Small

4.36

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

War is not all heroic deeds and daring-do, even for the Special Forces the glory only occupies a ve… read more

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15. Sniper in Helmand: Six Months on the Frontline

By: James Cartwright

4.06

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

“A book that conveys the realities of life for the sniper in Afghanistan, the highs and lows, the f… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
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16. Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II

By: Wilhelm Johnen

4.22

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

"The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he op… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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17. Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

By: Jason Fox

4.14

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This is a true story. The events depicted took place during the last decade in an unnamed warzone. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • war
"All across the mission, dozens of horror stories were being written. I just had to deal with mine."

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

"The fact that I was considered part of that elite group, and the idea that other people could rely on me, too, felt life-affirming... I told myself, Mate, you’re good at a job where you have to work …"

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

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18. Fire Strike 7/9

By: Paul Grahame

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

'Being a JTAC is the closest a soldier on the ground in the midst of battle can get to feeling like… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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19. SAS: Sierra Leone – Deliver A Blow The True SAS Story of Operation Barras

By: Andy Pacino

4.15

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

While the ten-year long the bloody civil war of Sierra Leone raged throughout the 1990s and early 2… read more

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20. Scar Tissue (Alex Abbott #1)

By: Ollie Ollerton

3.93

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-m… read more

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21. No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege

By: Major Adam Jowett

4.53

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times bestseller, powerful, highly-charged and moving, No Way Out is Adam Jowett’s tribute… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"It was strange to see the enemy up close, and at length. I could see fear in their faces - the knowledge that they could be cut down at any moment - but also a willingness to accept that fate in orde…"

-Major Adam Jowett, No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege

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22. An Officer, Not a Gentleman: The Inspirational Journey of a Pioneering Female Fighter Pilot

By: Mandy Hickson

4.55

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Flying a multi-million pound fighter jet in hostile territory is not an everyday career and it come… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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23. Danger Close: Commanding 3 PARA in Afghanistan

By: Stuart Tootal

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghan… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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24. Bullet Magnet

By: Mick Flynn

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A raw, honest and evocative account of life as the most highly decorated serving soldier in the Bri… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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25. The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win

By: Mark Billingham

4.40

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.‘The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark ‘Bill… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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26. Desert Sniper: How One Ordinary Brit Went to War Against ISIS

By: Ed Nash

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What makes an ordinary but highly educated Englishman, with no previous military training, decide t… read more

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  • history
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27. The Killing Zone

By: Richard Dorney

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

On a tour of duty in the Helmand River Valley, the Grenadier Guards faced the toughest challenge of… read more

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28. Trigger Time

By: Mick Flynn

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A small unit of British soldiers are beseiged on a hilltop, surrounded by Taliban. There is no way … read more

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  • military fiction
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29. Live For Me (Fury #1)

By: Colin Falconer

4.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A powerhouse of a novel about the indomitable will to survive – and what evil can do to the soul. … read more

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  • war
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30. Squaddie: A Soldier's Story

By: Steven McLaughlin

3.92

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Nort… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
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31. Boat Troop: An SAS Thriller

By: Johnny 'Two Combs' Howard

4.36

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Within two weeks of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, four men of Boat Troop, B Squad… read more

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11 Top history books like Danger Close: Commanding 3 PARA in Afghanistan by Stuart Tootal

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Dan Mills

4.29

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Hellfire

Ed Macy

4.30

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Apache. Ed Macy

Ed Macy

4.18

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The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers

Craig Harrison , Craig Harrison

4.75

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The First And The Last

Adolf Galland

2.74

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Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II

Wilhelm Johnen

4.22

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The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist

Peter Tunstall

4.45

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Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

Charles Whiting

4.17

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