15 best-selling history books like OPERATION SNAKEBITE The Explosive True Story of an Afghan Desert Siege by Stephen Grey

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OPERATION SNAKEBITE The Explosive True Story of an Afghan Desert Siege

By: Stephen Grey

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In December 2007, Stephen Grey, a Sunday Times reporter, was under fire in Afghanistan as British a…

If you liked the history plot in OPERATION SNAKEBITE The Explosive True Story of an Afghan Desert Siege by Stephen Grey , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor

1. Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

By: Sean Naylor

4.15

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

At dawn on March 2, 2002, the first major battle of the 21st Century began. Over 200 soldiers of th… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War by Ed Kugler

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
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

3. The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan

By: Gregg Zoroya

3.92

Format: 98 pages,

In a Band of Brothers-like narrative, the never-before-told story of one of the Afghanistan war's m… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson

4. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

By: Marcus Luttrell , Patrick Robinson

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan fo… read more

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

5. Alamein To Zem Zem

By: None

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Keith Douglas, killed in action in Normandy in 1944, was one of the finest poets of World War II. P… read more

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6. Bloody Heroes

By: Damien Lewis

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the Afghan wild lands, British and American special forces soldiers ate, slept, fought and died … read more

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7. The Phantom Major

By: Virginia Cowles

3.00

Format: None pages, paperback

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8. 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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9. Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him

By: Eric Blehm

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team Six, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary ope… read more

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10. The Manner of Men 9 PARA's Heroic D-day Mission

By: Stuart Tootal

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In June 1944, an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a daring and highly risky behind-th… read more

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Cover of The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim  Marshall

11. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

13. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

Cover of Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist by Richard Shepherd

14. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Cover of Sniper in Helmand: Six Months on the Frontline by James Cartwright

15. Sniper in Helmand: Six Months on the Frontline

By: James Cartwright

4.06

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

“A book that conveys the realities of life for the sniper in Afghanistan, the highs and lows, the f… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam by William V. Taylor Jr.

16. On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam

By: William V. Taylor Jr.

4.60

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Vietnam 1967-68 Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor Jr. and his brother Marines a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross by Albrecht Wacker

17. Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross

By: Albrecht Wacker

4.20

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of t… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story by Des Powell

18. SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

By: Des Powell

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'Honesty, integrity and real experience that put… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of SAS: Sea King Down by Mark Aston

19. SAS: Sea King Down

By: Mark Aston

4.47

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falkl… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Project Omega: Eye of the Beast: SOG: My Tour by James Acre

20. 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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Cover of Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967 by Doyle D. Glass

21. Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967

By: Doyle D. Glass

4.56

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

Redesigned cover art and upgraded manuscript to showcase the true story of 164 Marines and Navy Cor… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
"A hailstorm of rocket-propelled grenades, thundering mortars, and AK-47 machine-gun fire strafed the exposed men from all directions. The Marines of Mike Company had walked into an ambush laid by ove…"

-Doyle D. Glass, Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967

Cover of Fire Strike 7/9 by Paul Grahame

22. Fire Strike 7/9

By: Paul Grahame

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

'Being a JTAC is the closest a soldier on the ground in the midst of battle can get to feeling like… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of We Were Warriors by Johnny  Mercer

23. We Were Warriors

By: Johnny Mercer

4.49

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

The rounds were single shot from the same two enemy positions, trying to pick me off. They were kic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
"It wasn't that I was lazy- I was a bloody hard worker- I just found concentrating on one thing particularly difficult when I had such mammoth internal battles going on. I had no idea what I was going…"

-Johnny Mercer, We Were Warriors

Cover of Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes. by Geraint  Jones

24. Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

By: Geraint Jones

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of Amphibious Assault Falklands: The Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp

25. Amphibious Assault Falklands: The Battle of San Carlos Water

By: Michael Clapp

4.15

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A British Naval commander’s eyewitness account of the 1982 war in the South Atlantic.   Since he wa… read more

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  • military fiction
  • history
Cover of Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS & Special Forces by Lorna Almonds-Windmill

26. Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS & Special Forces

By: Lorna Almonds-Windmill

4.34

Format: 491 pages, Kindle Edition

This remarkable story of Jim Almonds (Gentleman Jim) is set in wartime England, the western desert,… read more

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Cover of The Tour: What to expect from your first war by Bobby Williams

27. The Tour: What to expect from your first war

By: Bobby Williams

4.41

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

To all soldiers about to deploy on your first tour, you should already know this by your life is g… read more

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Cover of Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944–45 by David Render

28. Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944–45

By: David Render

4.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Behind Enemy Lines (Who Dares Wins Book 1) by Nigel Cawthorne

29. Behind Enemy Lines (Who Dares Wins Book 1)

By: Nigel Cawthorne

4.04

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

‘An interesting and detailed account of little known operations by British special forces behind en… read more

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Cover of OPERATION SNAKEBITE The Explosive True Story of an Afghan Desert Siege by Stephen Grey

30. OPERATION SNAKEBITE The Explosive True Story of an Afghan Desert Siege

By: Stephen Grey

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In December 2007, Stephen Grey, a Sunday Times reporter, was under fire in Afghanistan as British a… read more

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