11 must-read military fiction books like Doc: Platoon Medic by Daniel E. Evans Jr.

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Doc: Platoon Medic

By: Daniel E. Evans Jr.

4.60

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

HE GAVE MEN A FIGHTING CHANCE... TO SURVIVEDan Evans arrived in Vietnam on October 7, 1968, a 21- y…

If you liked the military fiction plot in Doc: Platoon Medic by Daniel E. Evans Jr. , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Cross Country (Alex Cross, #14) by James  Patterson

1. Cross Country (Alex Cross, #14)

By: James Patterson

3.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When the home of Alex Cross's longtime friend Ellie Cox is turned into the worst murder scene Alex … read more

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2. Guns Up!

By: None

4.57

Format: None pages,

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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3. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

By: James Fenimore Cooper

3.70

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more

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"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

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4. The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By: Alistair Urquhart

3.80

Format: 245 pages,

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

5. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

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"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

Cover of Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War by Ed Kugler

6. 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
  • nonfiction
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7. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Skinwalkers (Leaphorn & Chee, #7)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Navajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn investigate murders that lead the… read more

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9. The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

By: Warren Fellows

2.75

Format: None pages,

In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was c… read more

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10. Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot In The Big Red One

By: Robert A. Anderson , None

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Vietnam veteran describes his experiences in country, recounting his career as a scout pilot in t… read more

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Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

11. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of HUEY WAR: VIIETNAM FROM THE BACKSEAT by Bruce Nesmith

12. HUEY WAR: VIIETNAM FROM THE BACKSEAT

By: Bruce Nesmith

4.40

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

HUEY WARA UH-1H Huey helicopter is a flimsy machine. It’s the 1960s equivalent of a World War I bip… read more

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Cover of Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C. by Diane Carlson Evans

13. Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

By: Diane Carlson Evans

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer t… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
"Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Collin Powell, a Vietnam Vet, then offered one of the most beautiful tributes I've ever heard. "You went, you served, you suffered. The names of eight o…"

-Diane Carlson Evans, Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

Cover of Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark    Harmon

14. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Prison Days: True Diary Entries by a Maximum Security Prison Officer, June 2018 by Simon    King

15. Prison Days: True Diary Entries by a Maximum Security Prison Officer, June 2018

By: Simon King

4.14

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

Direct from behind the walls of a maximum-security prison comes the day-today stories you never hea… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam by James M. Dixon

16. Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam

By: James M. Dixon

4.39

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Things I’ll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being draft… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Infantry Life: Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1966 - 1967 by Dennis M Witt

17. Infantry Life: Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1966 - 1967

By: Dennis M Witt

4.31

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Firefights, mortar attacks, and friendly fire were all part of the experiences of an infantryman in… read more

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Cover of Di Di Mau: A True Story About Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle, and War by Darren Walton

18. Di Di Mau: A True Story About Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle, and War

By: Darren Walton

4.21

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

“A revealing, sometimes gut-wrenching war memoir that examines virtually every aspect of his tour o… read more

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Cover of M*A*S*H Vietnam: What it's like to be a war nurse by Lorna Griess

19. M*A*S*H Vietnam: What it's like to be a war nurse

By: Lorna Griess

4.31

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

M*A*S*H Vietnam shows how one young nurse survived the day-to-day drama in a Mobile Army Surgical H… read more

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  • history
Cover of When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Barbara Kautz

20. When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

By: Barbara Kautz

4.13

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

When she was 18, she joined the Army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of 19 Minutes to Live: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam by Lew Jennings

21. 19 Minutes to Live: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam

By: Lew Jennings

4.42

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

19 Minutes to Live illustrates the incredible courage and determination of helicopter pilots and cr… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Vietnam Nurse by Lou Eisenbrandt

22. Vietnam Nurse

By: Lou Eisenbrandt

4.38

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town girl from Illinois decided to join the Army in order to help others and see the world.… read more

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Cover of Blood on China Beach: My Story as a Brain Surgeon in Vietnam by Paul J. Pitlyk

23. Blood on China Beach: My Story as a Brain Surgeon in Vietnam

By: Paul J. Pitlyk

4.41

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

More than once during his yearlong duty, thirty-two-year-old Paul J. Pitlyk wondered what had posse… read more

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Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

24. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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Cover of The Odds of Survival: A Helicopter Pilot's Story by Phillip Ide

25. The Odds of Survival: A Helicopter Pilot's Story

By: Phillip Ide

4.35

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

THE ODDS OF The story of an Assault Helicopter pilot's riveting memoir in Vietnam from June 1967 t… read more

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  • military fiction
Cover of A Surgeon's War: My Year in Vietnam by Henry Ward Trueblood

26. A Surgeon's War: My Year in Vietnam

By: Henry Ward Trueblood

4.49

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s 1965. A young surgeon is drafted into the U.S. Navy and sent to Vietnam, where he finds himsel… read more

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Cover of Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969: A Nurse’S Story of the Vietnam War by Bernadette J. Harrod

27. Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969: A Nurse’S Story of the Vietnam War

By: Bernadette J. Harrod

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

It was 1969 and the war in Vietnam was at its height. At the time, author Bernadette J. Harrod was … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam by Robert Tonsetic

28. Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam

By: Robert Tonsetic

4.36

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

On the ground, in the air, and behind the lines, grunts made life-and-death decisions every day—and… read more

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  • military fiction
  • history
Cover of Flying Dustoff: My Journey in Vietnam by Allan Parkhurst

29. Flying Dustoff: My Journey in Vietnam

By: Allan Parkhurst

4.48

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

Flying Dustoff is a collection of actual events during the Vietnam War, where I served as a Dustoff… read more

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30. Vietnam Doc: An American Physician’S Memoir

By: William Clayton Petty MD

4.62

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. William Clayton Petty believes anesthesia is a gift from God to mankind, and for many years it … read more

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Cover of Doc: Platoon Medic by Daniel E. Evans Jr.

31. Doc: Platoon Medic

By: Daniel E. Evans Jr.

4.60

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

HE GAVE MEN A FIGHTING CHANCE... TO SURVIVEDan Evans arrived in Vietnam on October 7, 1968, a 21- y… read more

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  • military fiction
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4.57

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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

Alistair Urquhart

3.80

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4.48

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Ann Rule

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The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

J. Thomas Grant

4.54

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Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

Diane Carlson Evans

4.48

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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

Barbara Kautz

4.13

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Henry Ward Trueblood

4.49

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