11 Best war books like What the Taliban Told Me by Ian Fritz

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What the Taliban Told Me

By: Ian Fritz

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When …

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1. Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness

By: Alfredo Corchado

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

In the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan

By: Robert Leckie

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Strong Men Armedrelates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during… read more

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3. Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America

By: Tony Williams , None

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Untold Story of the Extraordinary Alliance That Forged Our Nation and the Unlikely Duo Behind I… read more

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4. The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

By: Paul Landis

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There

By: Garrett M. Graff

3.73

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Garrett M. Graff comes the first comprehensive and eye-openi… read more

Similar categories in Garrett M. Graff's UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

By: Avi Loeb

3.51

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

“The world's leading alien hunter” — New York Times Magazine From acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

By: Elliot Ackerman

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate… read more

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  • memoir
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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12. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

By: Elena Kostyuchenko

4.41

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia and a fearless cri de coeur for journalism in oppo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives

By: Adam Gamal

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit―an ex… read more

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  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party

By: Tulsi Gabbard

4.43

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and in… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. No Ordinary Assignment

By: Jane Ferguson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty o… read more

Similar categories in Jane Ferguson's No Ordinary Assignment book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • memoir
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Borderline: Defending the Home Front

By: Vincent Vargas

4.12

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

An inside look at the U.S./Mexican border through the eyes of former U.S. Border Patrol agent, Vinc… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Vargas's Borderline: Defending the Home Front book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

By: Christian Brose

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

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18. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

By: P.W. Singer

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter an… read more

Similar categories in P.W. Singer's LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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19. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

Similar categories in Simon Shuster's The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • memoir
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Putney

By: Sofka Zinovieff

3.95

Format: 384 pages, ebook

In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and… read more

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  • audiobook
"Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes. ~Ralph"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

"Everything flows. You never step into the same river twice. Everything is changing all the time. ~Ralph"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

"A slow-motion hunt so gradual that the prey didn’t even realise it was being pursued, and would eventually just lie down to be mauled. ~Jane"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

"It is quite a big deal. It's so extraordinary that we female humans should be linked to the moon and the tides. It'd sound like science fiction if you made it up – mysterious planetary forces making …"

-Sofka Zinovieff, Putney

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21. Halcyon

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that re-imagine… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
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22. By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy

By: Michael G. Vickers

4.17

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Vickers's By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

By: Henry Farrell

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Henry Farrell's Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army by Charles Barber

24. In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

By: Charles Barber

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joine… read more

Similar categories in Charles Barber's In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • war
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

25. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Final Spin

By: Jocko Willink

3.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink’s fast-paced thriller F… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

27. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

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28. What the Taliban Told Me

By: Ian Fritz

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When … read more

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  • cultural
  • memoir
  • language
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • united states
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

By: Neil Gorsuch

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gorsuch's Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law book and Ian Fritz's What the Taliban Told Me

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan by Miles Lagoze

30. Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan

By: Miles Lagoze

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • war
  • memoir
"I want to be judged, but not too harshly. I want you to call me a baby-killer, but not to my face. I want the veteran identity to be surgically extracted from my body, but I want you to buy me a beer…"

-Miles Lagoze, Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan

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31. Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High

By: C.J. Pascoe

4.29

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

This provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do… read more

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The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

Paul Landis

3.73

Transform Your Habits

UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There

Garrett M. Graff

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

4.40

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Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

Avi Loeb

3.51

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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McKay Coppins

4.36

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4.54

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Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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