8 must-read biography books like Soldier by Anthony B. Herbert

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Soldier

By: Anthony B. Herbert

4.12

Format: 543 pages,

If you liked the biography plot in Soldier by Anthony B. Herbert , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior

By: Ward Just , David H. Hackworth , Julie Sherman

4.36

Format: 875 pages, Hardcover

Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this na… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of Tigers In The Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius by Otto Carius

2. Tigers In The Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius

By: Otto Carius

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the mo… read more

Similar categories in Otto Carius's Tigers In The Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius book and Anthony B. Herbert's Soldier

  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Wright Brothers

By: David McCullough

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Soldier

By: Anthony B. Herbert

4.12

Format: 543 pages,

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Similar categories in Anthony B. Herbert's Soldier book and Anthony B. Herbert's Soldier

  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor

5. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

By: Antony Beevor

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Suzanne Toren

6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

7. Way Down on the High Lonely (Neal Carey, #3)

By: Don Winslow

3.78

Format: 438 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From domestic war to ballroom brawls. grad student-turned-P.I..I. Neal Carey's got more than studyi… read more

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8. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"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

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9. To Hell and Back

By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy

4.25

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"

-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back

10. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

By: Candice Millard

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more

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11. Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet

By: None

2.96

Format: 7 pages,

Lewis B. Puller, Jr., the son of the most decorated Marine in the Corps' history, volunteered for d… read more

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12. 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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13. Centers of Gravity (Frontlines, #8)

By: Marko Kloos

4.56

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Stranded light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and his crew are on a desperate mission to dis… read more

Similar categories in Marko Kloos's Centers of Gravity (Frontlines, #8) book and Anthony B. Herbert's Soldier

  • military fiction
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14. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

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"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

Cover of Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie

15. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"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

9 best-selling history books like Soldier by Anthony B. Herbert

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About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior

Ward Just , David H. Hackworth , Julie Sherman

4.36

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Otto Carius

4.06

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The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

2.60

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Anthony B. Herbert

4.12

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The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)

Laurie R. King

4.41

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A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

Deborah Crombie

4.25

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Playing It Safe (Electra McDonnell, #3)

Ashley Weaver

4.18

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All that Is Hidden (Molly Murphy, #19)

Rhys Bowen

4.25

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