11 must-read history books like The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service by Michael J. MacLeod

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The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service

By: Michael J. MacLeod

4.23

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud figh…

If you liked the history plot in The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service by Michael J. MacLeod , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Deadly Beloved

By: Max Allan Collins

3.53

Format: 203 pages, Mass Market Paperback

While investigating the case of Marcy Addwatter, who killed her husband and his lover, P.I. Ms. Mic… read more

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2. 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

3. Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)

By: John Sandford

3.22

Format: 402 pages,

The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intell… read more

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4. Maverick One: The True Story of a Para, Pathfinder, Renegade

By: David Blakeley

3.72

Format: 224 pages,

The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER. For the first time ever an elite British operat… read more

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5. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

6. Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

By: Gregg Jones

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find … read more

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7. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more

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8. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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10. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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11. The Last Protector (Clayton White, #1)

By: Simon Gervais

4.21

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of the Pierce Hunt series comes a thrilling novel featuring a Secret Serv… read more

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  • military fiction
"Gritty, timely, and packed with action, The Instructor is a pulse-pounding thriller and a fabulous start to the Derek Harrington series. T.R. Hendricks delivers on all cylinders!"

-Simon Gervais, The Last Protector (Clayton White, #1)

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12. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Campbell's All the Living and the Dead book and Michael J. MacLeod's The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

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13. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

By: Helena Merriman

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
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14. French Foreign Legion Commando

By: Harry Dobson

4.38

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

A link to my website that contains a few pictures and blogs from my military LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA -T… read more

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15. A Familiar Sight (Dr. Gretchen White, #1)

By: Brianna Labuskes

4.12

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by… read more

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16. 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
Cover of Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim  Brady

17. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. Into the Silk: The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out — And Lived (Developments in Aviation Book 1)

By: Ian Mackersey

4.24

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airm… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt

By: Todd Harra

3.73

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

By: Kevin Grange

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. 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
  • war
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22. One Soldier: Vietnam In 1968

By: John Shook

4.00

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Who, or what, was the real enemy in Vietnam? The ever-elusive, jungle-wise Viet Cong and their NVA … read more

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23. Regimental

By: Steve Brown

4.31

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Steve Brown joined the army in 1993 as a troubled teenager and left as a respected sergeant-major i… read more

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24. Licking The Taliban's Flip-Flop

By: James Lee

4.44

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Not all forces memoirs are Bravo Two Zero, you know……… Afghanistan, November 2011, Staff Sergean… read more

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25. No Place To Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)

By: Anthony Richardson

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The eye-opening account of the forgotten and tumultuous Eastern Front in World War Two.Perfect for … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sunday Bloody Sunday: A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq by Gregory Michael Budd

26. 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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27. 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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28. You'd Be Nuts Too!

By: Steve Brown

4.32

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

When your two earliest memories are of your older brother being thrown against a wall by a drug-cra… read more

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Cover of No Fear: The true story of my deadly life after the SAS by Nigel Ely

29. No Fear: The true story of my deadly life after the SAS

By: Nigel Ely

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of deadly life after the SAS. In No Fear, soldier Nigel Ely takes us from his high o… read more

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Cover of COMPANY COMMANDER the classic infantry memoir of WWII (World War II Army Histories) by Charles B. MacDonald

30. COMPANY COMMANDER the classic infantry memoir of WWII (World War II Army Histories)

By: Charles B. MacDonald

4.49

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

In this extraordinary book, Charles B. MacDonald recounts his personal, authentic story of the fron… read more

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31. The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service

By: Michael J. MacLeod

4.23

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud figh… read more

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

14 must-read nonfiction books like The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service by Michael J. MacLeod

Transform Your Habits

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

Ed Kugler

4.48

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor

Stephan Talty , Brendan McDonough

3.31

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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Lee H. Whittlesey

4.71

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Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

Cory Franklin

3.57

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

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