5 must-read history books like The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Bing West

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The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division

By: Bing West

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-…

If you liked the history plot in The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Bing West , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

By: Nathaniel Fick

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

If the Marines are “the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel F… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"You need discipline most, when it’s hardest to muster."

-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

"Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men."

-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

"Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask—shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on peop…"

-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

"Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn't based on consensus. It's based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and in…"

-Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

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2. Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 608 pages, ebook

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major tel… read more

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"So,"

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"I’m really wishing Titan were still on that list of options."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"The real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"Alex said. “This is Medina Station under occupation by a bunch of splinter Martian military expats. It’s not Baltimore."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

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3. Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.27

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generati… read more

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"Partners,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Trashy people puke,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Tell me everything it explains,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

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4. Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her pl… read more

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5. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more

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6. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… read more

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7. Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.31

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars … read more

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"GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Fish and company start to smell after three days."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

8. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more

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9. The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi

By: Kevin Lacz , Ethan E. Rocke , Lindsey Lacz

4.33

Format: 228 pages, ebook

"One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq," (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling a… read more

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10. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

By: Evan Wright

4.28

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandt… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it"

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

11. The Forever War

By: Dexter Filkins

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever Waris the definitive account of America's conflict… read more

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12. Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.57

Format: 534 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its i… read more

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"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “So not unnatural at all,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “Your dad’s kind of an asshole,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Nineteen: Elvi We just lost two gates, Admiral. And one of them had an entire world filled with people behind it."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That’d be enough."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

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13. Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.54

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Wi… read more

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"Let's solve the extinction level threat first. Then we can all go back to killing each other at a civilized pace."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

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14. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

By: Jim Mattis

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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15. Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

By: Mike Pompeo

4.34

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration’s most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Bing West

16. The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division

By: Bing West

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-… read more

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  • military fiction
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5 best-selling nonfiction books like The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Bing West

Transform Your Habits

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Nathaniel Fick

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

Evan Wright

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

Mike Pompeo

4.34

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17 Best fiction books like Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2) by James S.A. Corey

Transform Your Habits

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Joe Abercrombie

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

Transform Your Habits

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)

James S.A. Corey

3.81

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