16 Top military fiction books like Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq by Bob Woodward

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• government
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Similar categories in Ian Morris's War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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Similar categories in Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1) book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• history
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• military fiction
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"They're all the rage, Cab Calloway wears one."

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

"After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it"

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

"Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, “Does any…"

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

"...Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Robert…"

-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)

Similar categories in Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War: Explaining World War I book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• history
• politics
• military fiction
• war
• nonfiction

"The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable.…"

-Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War: Explaining World War I

Similar categories in Willa Cather's One of Ours book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• war

"As he looked out and saw the grey landscape through the gently falling snow, he could not help thinking how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed dow…"

-Willa Cather, One of Ours

"He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making exc…"

-Willa Cather, One of Ours

Similar categories in Nick Allen's One Soldier's War in Chechnya book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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• biography
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• military fiction
• war
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Similar categories in Anna Reid's Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• nonfiction
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"Unlike other dictators, Stalin and his satraps never made the mistake of believing themselves beloved -- on the contrary they saw plots under every stone."

-Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

"At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed…"

-Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

"One of the most oft-quoted records of the siege, scribbled in pencil over the pages of a pocket address book, is that kept by twelve-year-old Tanya Savicheva: 28 December 1941 at 12.30 a.m. – Zhenya …"

-Anna Reid, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

Similar categories in Ian Kershaw's The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45 book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• history
• politics
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Similar categories in George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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• war
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". . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time."

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

"Fortunately for the world my generation didn't suffer from spiritual hypochondria - but then, we couldn't afford it. By modern standards, I'm sure we, like the whole population who endured the war, w…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

"It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talk…"

-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

Similar categories in Steve Snyder's Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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Similar categories in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

Similar categories in Andrew J. Bacevich's America's War for the Greater Middle East book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• american history
• history
• politics
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"Like the present-day GOP, the Northern Alliance was a loose coalition of unsavory opportunists, interested chiefly in acquiring power."

-Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East

Similar categories in Nicholas Stargardt's The German War: A Nation Under Arms book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• nonfiction
• military fiction
• history
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Similar categories in Helen Dunmore's The Siege (The Siege, #1) book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• war

"They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

"Andrei glances up. The angle of candlelight flushes his hollow, old man’s face with youth. He smiles at her. Although his eyes are only shadows in this light, she knows their exact colour. They are b…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Company (Sharpe, #13) book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• military fiction
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Similar categories in Susan Hill's Strange Meeting book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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Similar categories in Chil Rajchman's The Last Jew of Treblinka book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed. I no longer know where I am in the world."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

Similar categories in Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• military fiction
• war

"Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the…"

-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions

"This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and It…"

-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions

"The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, a…"

-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions

"When I went into the Army, I made up my mind that I was putting myself at the Army's disposal. I believe in the war. That doesn't mean I believe in the Army. I don't believe in any army. You don't ex…"

-Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions

Similar categories in Thomas Asbridge's The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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"The Lionheart had arrived."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

Similar categories in Ayşe Kulin's Last Train to Istanbul book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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Similar categories in Peter Englund's The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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"Війна — гарне видовище з точки зору генералів, журналістів та вчених."

-Peter Englund, The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's The Three Witches and The Master book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

Similar categories in William Kely McClung's Black Fire book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

"Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,"

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"It was time to start thinking of darker things."

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse"

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful."

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

Similar categories in Karl Braungart's Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2) book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

"Well, here’s the shocker,"

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"Yes, I never expected to see you!"

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"Their war maneuvers excluded shame."

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook."

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• nonfiction
• history
• war

Similar categories in Dale A. Jenkins's Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Similar categories in K.G.E. Konkel's Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• nonfiction
• history
• war

"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

Similar categories in Gregory S. Works's Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

• nonfiction
• biography

"Choose joy."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Be okay with having health-essential boundaries."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"God has been there with us every step of the way."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

Similar categories in Lynne Olson's Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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Similar categories in Margaret MacMillan's War: How Conflict Shaped Us book and Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

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