12 Top military fiction books like Into Helmand with the Walking Dead: A Story of Combat in Afghanistan by Miles Vining

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Into Helmand with the Walking Dead: A Story of Combat in Afghanistan

By: Miles Vining

4.30

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

Two marines share their experiences of serving in Afghanistan and dealing with the shock of returni…

If you liked the military fiction plot in Into Helmand with the Walking Dead: A Story of Combat in Afghanistan by Miles Vining , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

By: Philip Caputo

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series T… read more

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"The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

"There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

"Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

"We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

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2. West of Hue: Down the Yellow Brick Road

By: None

1.50

Format: None pages,

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3. A Hard Place

By: Jacamo Peterson

2.62

Format: 224 pages,

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4. No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan

By: Kevin Maurer , Mitch Weiss

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

It seemed like an impossible mission right from the start. A Special Forces team planned to land in… read more

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5. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more

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6. Embarrassing Confessions of a Marine Lieutenant: Operation Branding Iron 2.1A

By: None

3.10

Format: None pages,

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7. 21 Months, 24 Days: A blue-collar kid's journey to the Vietnam War and back

By: None

3.75

Format: 289 pages,

21 Months, 24 Daysis an engaging memoir of a blue-collar kid turned soldier. Threatened by the draf… read more

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8. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

By: William Craig

4.25

Format: None pages,

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more

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9. Fallujah Memoirs: A Grunt's Eye View of the Second Battle of Fallujah

By: Alexander Saxby

4.42

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second Battle of Fallujah was a watershed moment in the Iraq War. US Marines recaptured the cit… read more

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10. 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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11. Memoir of a Hard Time: Memories from my Time at War

By: C. V. (Chad) Spawr

4.29

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

The Viet-Nam War for America began in 1964, and finally ended in 1975. Nearly 59,000 Americans died… read more

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12. Breaking Midnight: A True Story

By: Lynn Walker

4.41

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

John Walker was a Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later, he was in prison … read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COLLEGE: An Origin Story

By: Jason Rosman

4.29

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

There was a huge explosion sending smoke throughout our squad. Through the ensuring chaos, I now re… read more

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17. Granite City: The Life of a Bandit

By: Norman Spells

3.88

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

Told with raw emotion, this is the true story of one man’s journey through the formative years of t… read more

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18. A LUCKY RED LION: The Marines of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 363 Vietnam

By: Arch Ratliff

4.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Taken from Memoirs, A Lucky Red Lion is the true story of a Marine aviator, then Captain Arch Ratli… read more

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19. The Ghost: Rumors From the Central Highlands of Vietnam (The Vietnam War, #6)

By: Rick DeStefanis

4.56

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Two weeks before his departure to Vietnam, Second Lieutenant Martin Shadows’s father encourages him… read more

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20. Memoirs of an Outlaw: Life in the Sandbox

By: Robert M. Tanner III

4.09

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

In Fallujah, during a particularly difficult time in the Iraq War, a group of Marines are deployed … read more

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21. Stryker: The Siege of Sadr City

By: Konrad R.K. Ludwig

4.34

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

In the spring of 2008, Coalition troops responded in-force to what quickly became one of the larges… read more

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22. A Soldier Against All Odds

By: Jason Pike

4.22

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutally honest tale of a soldier's unorthodox life, a rogue career, and an often-maverick charac… read more

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23. One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011

By: Mark Giaconia

4.11

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

3rd Edition. Before the Iraq war in 2003, Green Beret teams infiltrated Northern Iraq, linked up wi… read more

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24. Into Infamy: A Marine Sniper's War

By: Joe Chamblin

4.23

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

An innocent video from the war in Afghanistan triggered an event in the US Marine Corps that would … read more

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

25. 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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26. Ghosts of Fallujah

By: Coley D Tyler

3.89

Format: 175 pages, Kindle Edition

A first person account of the Second Battalion, Seventh Cavalry's participation in the Second Battl… read more

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Cover of Nothing Left to Drag Home: The Siege of Lao Bao, During Operation Dewey Canyon II; Written by an Artilleryman Who Survived It. by Gary Rafferty

27. Nothing Left to Drag Home: The Siege of Lao Bao, During Operation Dewey Canyon II; Written by an Artilleryman Who Survived It.

By: Gary Rafferty

4.27

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing Left to Drag Home, is an eyewitness account of the last major battle involving American gro… read more

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Cover of Blue Ghost: A helicopter pilot writes home from 1968 Vietnam. "Don't worry about me. Us Gun-Pilots are invincible!" by Larry Pueschel

28. Blue Ghost: A helicopter pilot writes home from 1968 Vietnam. "Don't worry about me. Us Gun-Pilots are invincible!"

By: Larry Pueschel

4.11

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Tommie Pueschel dreamed of flying ever since he was a little kid. It's now 1968, and U.S. Army Warr… read more

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29. Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam

By: Peter Clark

4.47

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

In this “great and necessary addition to the canon of Vietnam War memoirs” the author “is a thoroug… read more

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30. Echoes of a Distant Past: Screaming Eagles: A Vietnam War Memoir

By: Eraldo Lucero

4.28

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1970, in the deadly A Shau Valley and the adjacent eastern mountainous jungles of South Vietnam,… read more

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31. Into Helmand with the Walking Dead: A Story of Combat in Afghanistan

By: Miles Vining

4.30

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

Two marines share their experiences of serving in Afghanistan and dealing with the shock of returni… read more

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11 Best history books like Memoirs of an Outlaw: Life in the Sandbox by Robert M. Tanner III

Transform Your Habits

A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

Philip Caputo

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers

Gary Brozek , Nicholas Irving

3.43

Transform Your Habits

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

Doyle D. Glass

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division

Arthur Wiknik Jr.

4.22

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