Last Chapter
By: Ernie Pyle
4.53
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Battle of Okinawa was the very last pitched battle of the Second World War, and it was here, at…
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1. One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
By: Nathaniel Fick
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
If the Marines are “the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel F… read more
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"You need discipline most, when it’s hardest to muster."-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
"Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men."-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
"Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask—shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on peop…"-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
"Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn't based on consensus. It's based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and in…"-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
2. The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
By: Eric Blehm , None
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eric Blehm, author of the award-winning The Last Season, is back with another true adventure story,… read more
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3. My War
By: Tom Brokaw , Andy Rooney
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The author recounts his experiences as a young reporter to "Stars and Stripes," the American forces… read more
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"One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good th…"-Tom Brokaw, My War
4. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
By: Alex Kershaw
4.17
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under t… read more
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5. Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
By: Chester Nez , Judith Schiess Avila
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII-includes the actual Na… read more
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6. Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
By: Ed Kugler
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. Raw, straightforward, and powerful… read more
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7. Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4)
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A very young man with muddied hair, a pierced ear and a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's arms. … read more
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8. Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot In The Big Red One
By: Robert A. Anderson , None
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A Vietnam veteran describes his experiences in country, recounting his career as a scout pilot in t… read more
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9. House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
By: John R. Bruning , David Bellavia
3.92
Format: None pages,
One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action a… read more
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10. The Few: The American ""Knights of the Air"" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
By: Alex Kershaw
3.37
Format: None pages,
By the summer of 1940 World War II had been under way for nearly a year. Hitler was triumphant and … read more
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11. Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself
By: Tim Kennedy
4.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around… read more
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12. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
By: Bob Drury
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more
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13. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
14. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes
By: Tim Brady
4.01
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more
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15. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
16. Drafted!: My Year in Vietnam
By: Morgan Miller
4.56
Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition
2024 IBPA Gold Ben Franklin Award Winner • 2024 Foreword Review INDIES FinalistMorgan and I both se… read more
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17. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
By: Mark Harmon
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more
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18. Escape From Arnhem: A Canadian Among the Lost Paratroops (Memoirs from World War Two)
By: Leo Heaps
4.25
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
The remarkable true story of a Canadian paratrooper’s escape from behind enemy lines following the … read more
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19. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)
By: Terence Robertson
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more
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20. Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
By: James Sullivan
3.98
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” ( Kir… read more
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21. Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
By: Earl Swift
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift redisco… read more
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22. Appomattox: The Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
By: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
4.21
Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition
Chamberlain’s poignant tale delves into one man’s first-hand account of the Battle of Appomattox Co… read more
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23. Wing Leader: The Incredible Story of the Top-Scoring RAF Fighter Ace of WWII
By: J.E. Johnson
4.48
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
Johnnie Johnson joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1939 as a week-end flier, and finis… read more
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24. Roll Me Over: An Infantryman's World War II
By: Raymond Gantter
4.18
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Raymond Gantter arrived in Normandy in the fall of 1944, bodies were still washing up from the… read more
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25. Patton And His Third Army
By: Brenton G. Wallace
4.24
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” General George S. Patton At the start of th… read more
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26. The Odds of Survival: A Helicopter Pilot's Story
By: Phillip Ide
4.35
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
THE ODDS OF The story of an Assault Helicopter pilot's riveting memoir in Vietnam from June 1967 t… read more
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27. "SKI" in Vietnam: The Memoirs of Chuck Niewadomski
By: RaeLynn Stuart
4.19
Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the word for word account of one man's experience in Vietnam at the end of the conflict. He… read more
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28. Tumbletite: The Misadventures of a Mississippi Flyboy
By: Johnny Gressett
4.50
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
Tumbletite chronicles the 31-year flying career of a country boy from Mississippi. The author takes… read more
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29. Kept: An American Househusband in Paris (Kept, #2)
By: Gregory E. Buford
4.50
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s like Emily in Paris for grown-ups! The Zola Award-winning tale of a company man turned trailin… read more
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30. Last Chapter
By: Ernie Pyle
4.53
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Battle of Okinawa was the very last pitched battle of the Second World War, and it was here, at… read more
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31. Ernie Pyle: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Journalist Killed in Battle during World War II
By: Charles River Editors
4.40
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
*Includes pictures *Includes Pyle's accounts of the war *Includes online resources and a bibliograp… read more
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