Sherman Lead: Flying the F-4D Phantom II in Vietnam
By: Gaillard R. Peck Jr.
4.13
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Written by a pilot who flew near-daily combat missions, this engrossing book is the story of one ma…
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1. Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
By: Eugene B. Fluckey
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew memb… read more
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2. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Timeis a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and hono… read more
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3. Kenobi
By: John Jackson Miller
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
The greatest hero in the galaxy faces his toughest challenge yet: He must stop being Obi-Wan-and be… read more
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4. The Great Escape
By: Paul Brickhill
4.03
Format: 320 pages,
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hun… read more
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5. The First And The Last
By: Adolf Galland
2.74
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaf… read more
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6. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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. I Flew for the Führer
By: Heinz Knoke
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Heinz Knoke was one of Nazi Germany's outstanding pilots, and this dramatic record of his experienc… read more
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9. You'll Be Sor-ree: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War
By: None
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, AL, when he plunged into the jungles o… read more
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10. Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot's Combat Journal
By: Buck Wyndham
4.28
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index fin… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
13. Thunderbolt!: The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace
By: Martin Caidin
4.42
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
With 28 confirmed kills against the fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe, Robert S. Johnson returned fro… read more
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14. Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)
By: Daniel José Older
3.71
Format: 490 pages, Hardcover
Centuries before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Repub… read more
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"You are sure of your path," Cohmac had said to Reath on that same day when Reath had asked him to be his master. And he had felt so sure then, and that sureness had been a blessing after so much chao…"-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)
"War. War had come to Corellia. It was already a brutal one, and it was about to get much, much worse. There was no such thing as not taking sides. It was sheer theater in peacetime and an absolute jo…"-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)
"Any more cargo?" Cohmac called as Reath and Ram picked up their travel packs and headed up the ramp. "No, we got the rest of them, but thanks for your help," Ram said, his face twitching on one side.…"-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)
"Very like the wind, our feelings are," Yoda said. It was something he'd repeated many times over the years Kantam had been training with him, and Kantam had never totally known what to do with it. "T…"-Daniel José Older, Midnight Horizon (Star Wars: The High Republic)
15. The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
By: Andrew Biggio
4.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero’s journey of a 28-… read more
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16. Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division
By: Arthur Wiknik Jr.
4.22
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
A candid memoir of being sent to Vietnam at age nineteen, witnessing the carnage of Hamburger Hill,… read more
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17. From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot
By: Steven K. Ladd
4.53
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
This behind-the-scenes account of a USAF career is “an absorbing read, written with the classic hum… read more
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18. Sherman Lead: Flying the F-4D Phantom II in Vietnam
By: Gaillard R. Peck Jr.
4.13
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Written by a pilot who flew near-daily combat missions, this engrossing book is the story of one ma… read more
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