10 Top history books like Recce (E): Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines by Koos Stadler

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Recce (E): Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines

By: Koos Stadler

4.14

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have fascinated So…

If you liked the history plot in Recce (E): Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines by Koos Stadler , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
"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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2. Legionnaire: Five Years in the French Foreign Legion

By: Simon Murray

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

The French Foreign Legion-mysterious, romantic, deadly-is filled with men of dubious character, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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3. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

By: David Deida

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Bleed

By: John R. Cronin

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

These memoirs are a 35-year window into the life of someone who walked silently on patrol with Mari… read more

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5. Fighting for the French Foreign Legion

By: Alex Lochrie

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history

6. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

By: Steven Pressfield

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more

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7. Strange Tales from the African Bush

By: Hannes Wessels

3.76

Format: 205 pages,

Hannes Wessels is one of the most talented writers that we at Safari Press have read in a long time… read more

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8. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

By: Eric Metaxas

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more

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9. Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts

By: None

3.42

Format: 8 pages,

In "Three Sips of Gin" the author gives a fascinating account of what it was like growing up in the… read more

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10. War For the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot's View of Vietnam

By: Ed Cobleigh

4.43

Format: 250 pages,

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11. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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12. Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

By: David Goggins

4.44

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a self-help book. It's a wake-up call! Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins' smash hit memoi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Whatever it takes for you to believe that you're better than good enough to achieve your dreams is what you must do. And remember, your greatness is not tied to any outcome. It is found in the valian…"

-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

"We all owe it ourselves to stand for something. Principles give us a foundation — solid ground we can trust and build on as we continue to redefine what's possible in our own lives. Sure, some will b…"

-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

"Back in SEAL training, I loved when people froze up and quit. I felt it elevated me in some way, but that was ego-driven immaturity and poor leadership. These days, I consider my business to make eve…"

-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

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13. HUEY WAR: VIIETNAM FROM THE BACKSEAT

By: Bruce Nesmith

4.40

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

HUEY WARA UH-1H Huey helicopter is a flimsy machine. It’s the 1960s equivalent of a World War I bip… read more

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14. Point Man

By: James Watson

4.27

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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15. The Woman in the Blue Cloak (Benny Griesel, #5.5)

By: Deon Meyer

3.58

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa’s winter, a woman’s naked body, washed in bleac… read more

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  • africa
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16. Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, A Memoir

By: Lindsay O’Brien

4.35

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A former officer of British South Africa’s anti-terrorist unit recounts his experiences on the fron… read more

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  • military fiction
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17. LRRP (Provisional) 2nd Bde 4th Infantry Division Vietnam 1966-67

By: Frank Camper

4.45

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

True story of the 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division's small, ragtag "provisional" long range patro… read more

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  • military fiction
  • history
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18. One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011

By: Mark Giaconia

4.11

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

3rd Edition. Before the Iraq war in 2003, Green Beret teams infiltrated Northern Iraq, linked up wi… read more

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  • military fiction
  • history
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19. Sunday Bloody Sunday: A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq

By: Gregory Michael Budd

4.40

Format: 509 pages, Kindle Edition

Gold is forged in fire. Men in the furnace of adversity…Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

By: A.J. Balaam

3.72

Format: 540 pages, Kindle Edition

From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rh… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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21. SIERRA WHISKEY Ten Years in South African Special Forces

By: SW Fourie

4.20

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of Schalk W Fourie’s ten years in the elite South African Army Special Forces, co… read more

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  • military history
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22. Recce (E): Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines

By: Koos Stadler

4.14

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have fascinated So… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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23. Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne

By: Larry Chambers

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Author Larry Chambers vividly describes the guts and courage it took to pass the though volunteer-o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Above Average: Naval Aviation The Hard Way by D.D. Smith

24. Above Average: Naval Aviation The Hard Way

By: D.D. Smith

4.59

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Revised and updated version! STEPHEN COONTS, NY Times best-selling author of Flight of the Intruder… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military history
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25. Our Lives "On the Line": The Air War over North Vietnam for a Navy pilot and his Airwing.

By: Kenneth Adams

4.32

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This covers the air war over North Vietnam from August 1966 through November 1968 for a young Naval… read more

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26. We Dared to Win: The SAS in Rhodesia

By: Hannes Wessels

4.28

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir from a Special Forces fighter about his experiences in the Rhodesian War and how combat ha… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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27. Mike West: Special Forces Super-Soldier

By: Hannes Wessels

4.21

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Born poor, he battled on the streets of the mining towns near Johannesburg; from orphanage to refor… read more

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28. 1 Recce, volume 3: Through Stealth our Strength

By: Alexander Strachan

4.57

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale has been a source of fierce contestation and emotion for decades, but… read more

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29. 1 Recce, volume 2: Behind Enemy Lines

By: Alexander Strachan

4.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The demolition team is passing the cases containing explosives one by one to Klein-Jakes Jacobs whe… read more

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30. 1 Recce: The night belongs to us

By: Alexander Strachan

4.13

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

1 Recce. One of the sharpest, most versatile and deadliest specialist units in the South African De… read more

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  • military fiction
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31. Skuzapo: The untold story

By: Andrew Balaam

4.53

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A covert group of highly-trained soldiers infiltrates the terrorist units behind enemy lines.Source… read more

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"In Africa only the strong survive"

-Andrew Balaam, Skuzapo: The untold story

"Propaganda is a deadly weapon when used against the uneducated"

-Andrew Balaam, Skuzapo: The untold story

"Both good and bad were destroyed and thrown on the rubbish dump of war"

-Andrew Balaam, Skuzapo: The untold story

"To beat or destroy your enemy, you’ll have to first find him and bring him to battle"

-Andrew Balaam, Skuzapo: The untold story

12 must-read nonfiction books like Recce (E): Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines by Koos Stadler

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

Legionnaire: Five Years in the French Foreign Legion

Simon Murray

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

David Deida

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Fighting for the French Foreign Legion

Alex Lochrie

4.49

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14 Top history books like One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011 by Mark Giaconia

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The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan

Eric Blehm , None

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Swift Boats at War in Vietnam

John Yeoman , Guy Gugliotta , Neva Sullaway

4.06

Transform Your Habits

SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

Howard E. Wasdin , Stephen Templin

3.77

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GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam

Mark Garrison

3.97

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