14 must-read history books like Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster

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Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

By: John L. Plaster

4.58

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

SOG was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the forerunner of today's Delta Force and Navy SEALs.…

"The more I recognized these tactical styles, the more I saw the ideal as a balance. Despite the contradiction, a recon [team leader] had to be part wolf and part rabbit--selectively bold or cautious--but few men can agilely switch back and forth."

-John L. Plaster, Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

"The more I recognized these tactical styles, the more I saw the ideal as a balance. Despite the contradiction, a recon [team leader] had to be part wolf and part rabbit--selectively bold or cautious--but few men can agilely switch back and forth."

-John L. Plaster, Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

If you liked the history plot in Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins by Annie Jacobsen

2. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

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  • military fiction
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4. Project Omega: Eye of the Beast: SOG: My Tour

By: James Acre

4.49

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the Kindle edition of my book, published in 1999, and now out of print. It is my memoir of … read more

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5. Whispers In The Tall Grass

By: Nick Brokhausen

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MA… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Across The Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam (Expanded Edition) by John Stryker Meyer

6. Across The Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam (Expanded Edition)

By: John Stryker Meyer

4.49

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

For eight years, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, America… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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7. The Iron Triangle: A Novel of the Vietnam War

By: Douglas L. Edwards

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The Iron Triangle, tells the story of a ill conceived mission that goes horribly wrong. It is a cha… read more

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  • military fiction
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8. We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam

By: Nick Brokhausen

4.40

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

A Green Beret’s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sniper: The Untold Story of the Marine Corps' Greatest Marksman of All Time by Jim Lindsay

9. The Sniper: The Untold Story of the Marine Corps' Greatest Marksman of All Time

By: Jim Lindsay

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the full story of the deadliest sniper i… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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10. Unafraid: Staring Down Terror as a Navy SEAL and Single Dad

By: Eddie Penney

4.58

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Hot Wash The review held after military training and real-world operations facilitating growth an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • biography
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11. Land With No Sun: A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne

By: Ted G. Arthurs

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A no-holds-barred, straight-in-your-face account of combat in VietnamYou know it's going to be hot … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
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12. On The Ground: The Secret War in Vietnam

By: John Stryker Meyer

4.58

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

During the Vietnam War, a "secret war" was fought across the fence in Laos, Cambodia and North Viet… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969 by Joe Parnar

13. SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969

By: Joe Parnar

4.50

Format: 519 pages, Kindle Edition

The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly cla… read more

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  • history
Cover of Born Twice: Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior by Dale Hanson

14. Born Twice: Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior

By: Dale Hanson

4.60

Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition

“Dale Hanson takes us from a northern Minnesota boyhood to the incredible stresses of U.S. special … read more

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15. SOG Medic: Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence

By: Joe Parnar

4.22

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Elite units carried out many dangerous operations during the Vietnam War, the most secret and hazar… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of SOG Chronicles: Volume One by John Stryker Meyer

16. SOG Chronicles: Volume One

By: John Stryker Meyer

4.26

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

From 1964 to 1972, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of 15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour by Thom Nicholson

17. 15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour

By: Thom Nicholson

4.06

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

"When we cross the no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you." In Vietna… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
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18. The Dying Place

By: David A. Maurer

4.38

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

At twenty-five yards the front sight of the machine gun nearly covered the back of the reclining so… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
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19. Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

By: John L. Plaster

4.58

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

SOG was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the forerunner of today's Delta Force and Navy SEALs.… read more

Similar categories in John L. Plaster's Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG book and John L. Plaster's Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"The more I recognized these tactical styles, the more I saw the ideal as a balance. Despite the contradiction, a recon [team leader] had to be part wolf and part rabbit--selectively bold or cautious-…"

-John L. Plaster, Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

Cover of Reflections of a Warrior: Six Years as a Green Beret in Vietnam by Elwood J.C. Kureth

20. Reflections of a Warrior: Six Years as a Green Beret in Vietnam

By: Elwood J.C. Kureth

4.51

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Reflections of a Warrior is a Medal of Honor winner's true story—a Green Beret's six deadly years i… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of SOG Codename Dynamite: A MACV-SOG 1-0's Personal Journal by Henry L. Thompson

21. SOG Codename Dynamite: A MACV-SOG 1-0's Personal Journal

By: Henry L. Thompson

4.75

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

From 1964-1972 America engaged in a Top Secret war in Southeast Asia with an elite group of warrior… read more

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14 must-read nonfiction books like Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster

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Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

Ed Kugler

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Whispers In The Tall Grass

Nick Brokhausen

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Across The Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam (Expanded Edition)

John Stryker Meyer

4.49

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11 must-read history books like SOG Medic: Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence by Joe Parnar

SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam

John L. Plaster

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Robert Leckie

4.22

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Whispers In The Tall Grass

Nick Brokhausen

4.11

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Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division

Arthur Wiknik Jr.

4.22

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