7 must-read aviation books like The Eye Of The Viper: The Making Of An F-16 Pilot by Peter Aleshire

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The Eye Of The Viper: The Making Of An F-16 Pilot

By: Peter Aleshire

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper a…

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Cover of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Le… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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2. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

By: Mark Owen , Kevin Maurer

4.02

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
"Just get to lunch,"

-Mark Owen, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

"There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself"

-Mark Owen, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

"I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care."

-Mark Owen, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

"Before I left, I noticed a shelf that ran above the door. It was just above where he [bin Laden] was standing when we got to the third deck. I slid my hand up and felt two guns, which urned out to be…"

-Mark Owen, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Cover of Panzer Leader by B.H. Liddell Hart, Heinz Guderian, Kenneth John Macksey

3. Panzer Leader

By: B.H. Liddell Hart , Heinz Guderian , Kenneth John Macksey

4.12

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

General Heinz Guderian’s revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brought Ger… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury

4. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

By: Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
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5. Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying

By: Wolfgang Langewiesche

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

"Stick and Rudder" is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been con… read more

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  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of Visions From a Foxhole: A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps by William A. Foley Jr.

6. Visions From a Foxhole: A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps

By: William A. Foley Jr.

0.00

Format: 287 pages,

An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division's bold campaign to break… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War by Dan Hampton

7. The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War

By: Dan Hampton

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At the height of the Cold War, America's most elite aviators bravely volunteered for a covert progr… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • aviation
  • nonfiction

8. Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat

By: Dan Hampton

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

151 combat missions 21 hard kills on surface-to-air-missile sites 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses wi… read more

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9. We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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10. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

By: None , Ben R. Rich

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more

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11. 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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12. Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II

By: Dan Hampton

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

13. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

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14. Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)

By: Michael Connelly

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling … read more

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Cover of We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins

15. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies by Gordon Corera

16. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies

By: Gordon Corera

4.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin’s espionage campaign against the West, how i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival by Tom Clavin

17. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

By: Tom Clavin

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.On August 13, 1944,… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II by Harry H. Crosby

18. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

By: Harry H. Crosby

4.58

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • aviation
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Eye Of The Viper: The Making Of An F-16 Pilot by Peter Aleshire

19. The Eye Of The Viper: The Making Of An F-16 Pilot

By: Peter Aleshire

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • aviation
  • nonfiction

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