12 Best history books like Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green Beret by Stephen L. Moore

Cover of Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green Beret by Stephen L. Moore

Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green Beret

By: Stephen L. Moore

4.46

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon compa…

If you liked the history plot in Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green Beret by Stephen L. Moore , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster

1. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

By: Donald Worster

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disast… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

By: Andrea Wulf

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

3. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

By: Frederick Downs

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zonetells the story of the plato… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

4. Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears

By: Matthew P. Mayo

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys v… read more

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5. Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG

By: None

4.00

Format: 176 pages,

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6. To Hell and Back

By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy

4.25

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

7. Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific

By: William Marvel , None , None

3.64

Format: 288 pages,

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8. The Warrior Ethos

By: Steven Pressfield

3.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WARS CHANGE, WARRIORS DON'T We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defen… read more

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9. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

By: Robert W. Merry

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomat… read more

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10. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

By: Richard H. O'Kane

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. This is her story as told by her skip… read more

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11. A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

By: Hannes Wessels

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reput… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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12. 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
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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13. 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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  • nonfiction
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14. 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
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Run Through the Jungle: Real Adventures in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade by Larry J. Musson

15. Run Through the Jungle: Real Adventures in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade

By: Larry J. Musson

4.17

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An authentic account of combat with an airborne company in the waterlogged rice paddies and demandi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • military history
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16. Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music

By: Ted Templeman

4.23

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legend… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Vagabonds: Tourists in the Heart of Darkness by Nick Brokhausen

17. Vagabonds: Tourists in the Heart of Darkness

By: Nick Brokhausen

4.35

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

"A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triu… read more

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18. 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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19. 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 Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster

20. 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

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • 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 Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green Beret by Stephen L. Moore

21. Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green Beret

By: Stephen L. Moore

4.46

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon compa… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

13 must-read nonfiction books like Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green Beret by Stephen L. Moore

Transform Your Habits

Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

Donald Worster

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Andrea Wulf

3.44

The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

Frederick Downs

4.60

Transform Your Habits

To Hell and Back

Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy

4.25

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

Transform Your Habits

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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