7 must-read military history books like Painting the Sand by Kim Hughes

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Painting the Sand

By: Kim Hughes

4.36

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Don't miss the compulsive thriller series from Kim Hughes, OPERATION CERTAIN DEATH and OPERATION BL…

If you liked the military history plot in Painting the Sand by Kim Hughes , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Bravo Two Zero

By: Andy McNab

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to i… read more

Similar categories in Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • action
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2. The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

By: None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL T… read more

Similar categories in None's The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The troop commander's name was Rich...[and] he was one of the best leaders I've ever known. His motto, which I've stolen from him, is, 'Nobody ever worked for me. They worked with me."

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

"...the daily morning muster began beneath a sign that said, 'Are you ready for war today? You should be.' SEALs hadn't fired a shot in anger for years. But nobody ever admitted that around civilians,…"

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

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3. 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

Similar categories in Dan Mills's Sniper One: The Blistering True Story Of A British Battle Group Under Siege book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Chickenhawk

By: Robert Mason

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma … read more

Similar categories in Robert Mason's Chickenhawk book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

5. Alien

By: Alan Dean Foster

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Based on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sle… read more

Similar categories in Alan Dean Foster's Alien book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Craig Harrison's The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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7. The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers

By: Gary Brozek , Nicholas Irving

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations… read more

Similar categories in Gary Brozek's The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

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. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States… read more

Similar categories in Chris Kyle's American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pa…"

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

10. Soldier Spy

By: Tom Marcus

3.79

Format: 223 pages,

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11. Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert On The Front Line

By: None , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story of a young bomb disposal officer and his terrifying experiences in Iraq fac… read more

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12. The Art of Resilience

By: Ross Edgley

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience… read more

Similar categories in Ross Edgley's The Art of Resilience book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Esteem needs. Maslow classified these into two categories: Esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence). The desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige).…"

-Ross Edgley, The Art of Resilience

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13. What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert

By: Peter Faulding

3.59

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Faulding's What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

By: C.A. Fletcher

4.15

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've n… read more

Similar categories in C.A. Fletcher's A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • audiobook
"I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think"

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

"No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective."

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

"Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn’t know about."

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

"I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me."

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

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15. The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win

By: Mark 'Billy' Billingham

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Billy Billingham grew up tough; a grim future ahead of him offering little respite from the hostile… read more

Similar categories in Mark 'Billy' Billingham's The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

By: Nimsdai Purja

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529312249. In Beyond Possible Nimsdai Purja tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Nimsdai Purja's Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Undercover War: Britain's Special Forces and their secret battle against the IRA

By: Harry McCallion

4.20

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969, to halt the threat of a new rising … read more

Similar categories in Harry McCallion's Undercover War: Britain's Special Forces and their secret battle against the IRA book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons

18. Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond

By: John Lyons

4.34

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife'… read more

Similar categories in John Lyons's Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
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19. I Spy: My Life in MI5

By: Tom Marcus

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - SunTom Marcus spen… read more

Similar categories in Tom Marcus's I Spy: My Life in MI5 book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Painting the Sand by Kim Hughes

20. Painting the Sand

By: Kim Hughes

4.36

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Don't miss the compulsive thriller series from Kim Hughes, OPERATION CERTAIN DEATH and OPERATION BL… read more

Similar categories in Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • action
  • audiobook
Cover of Arabian Nights: Volume 1 by Marty Ross

21. Arabian Nights: Volume 1

By: Marty Ross

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

This multicast dramatisation of Arabian Nights: Volume 1 is an Audible Original reenvisioning of th… read more

Similar categories in Marty Ross's Arabian Nights: Volume 1 book and Kim Hughes's Painting the Sand

  • audiobook

13 best-selling audiobook books like Painting the Sand by Kim Hughes

Transform Your Habits

The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Transform Your Habits

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

Dan Mills

4.29

Alien

Alan Dean Foster

3.33

Transform Your Habits

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

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14 must-read history books like The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers by Gary Brozek, Nicholas Irving

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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Mark Owen , Kevin Maurer

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen

Marcus Luttrell , Brandon Webb , John David Mann

3.86

Transform Your Habits

SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

Howard E. Wasdin , Stephen Templin

3.77

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