12 Top nonfiction books like Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism by Tim Keown, Billy Waugh

Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism

By: Tim Keown , Billy Waugh

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

For more than half a century, Special Forces and CIA legend Billy Waugh dedicated his life to track…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism by Tim Keown, Billy Waugh , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab

1. Bravo Two Zero

By: Andy McNab

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to i… read more

Similar categories in Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero book and Tim Keown's Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior by None, Robert  O'Neill

2. The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

By: None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL T… read more

Similar categories in None's The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior book and Tim Keown's Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"The troop commander's name was Rich...[and] he was one of the best leaders I've ever known. His motto, which I've stolen from him, is, 'Nobody ever worked for me. They worked with me."

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

"...the daily morning muster began beneath a sign that said, 'Are you ready for war today? You should be.' SEALs hadn't fired a shot in anger for years. But nobody ever admitted that around civilians,…"

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

Cover of Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, None, Susan Carnicero, None, Michael Floyd

3. Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

By: Philip Houston , None , Susan Carnicero , None , Michael Floyd

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three former CIA officers - among the world’s foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavio… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Людська поведінка не завжди логічна."

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

"Не можна приписувати поведінці значущість, якщо не знаєте її причин."

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

"There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic."

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

"Люди вірять у неправду не тому, що мусять, а тому, що хочуть. Малколм Маггерідж"

-Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

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4. Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat

By: James R. McDonough

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Pete Blaber

5. The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

By: Pete Blaber

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a commander in Delta Force-the most elite counter-terrorist organization in the world-Pete Blabe… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"The ultimate goal of this book is to share what I consider to be life-saving and life-changing lessons that I was fortunate enough to learn as a key participant in many of recent history’s most impac…"

-Pete Blaber, The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

Cover of Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox

6. Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit

By: Charlie A. Beckwith , Donald Knox

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

The only insider's account ever written on America's most powerful weapon in the war against terror… read more

Similar categories in Charlie A. Beckwith's Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit book and Tim Keown's Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen

7. The Pentagon's Brain

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

8. Black Hawk Down

By: Mark Bowden

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

9. Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism

By: Tim Keown , Billy Waugh

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

For more than half a century, Special Forces and CIA legend Billy Waugh dedicated his life to track… read more

Similar categories in Tim Keown's Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism book and Tim Keown's Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism

  • espionage
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • terrorism

10. Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command

By: Sean Naylor

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2015 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writi… read more

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11. The Last Season

By: Eric Blehm

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more

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12. Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds

By: Kevin Maurer , None

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before.Lions of Kandaha… read more

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13. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more

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14. 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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Cover of Only the Dead (Terminal List #6) by Jack Carr

15. Only the Dead (Terminal List #6)

By: Jack Carr

4.55

Format: 562 pages, Kindle Edition

Navy SEAL James Reece faces a devastating global conspiracy in this high-adrenaline thriller that i… read more

Similar categories in Jack Carr's Only the Dead (Terminal List #6) book and Tim Keown's Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism

  • espionage
  • military fiction
Cover of Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins by Annie Jacobsen

16. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7) by Jack Carr

17. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

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  • espionage
  • military fiction
Cover of Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios by Mike Glover

18. Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios

By: Mike Glover

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A former Green Beret’s indispensable course in preparedness, teaching the keys… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado

19. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

By: Ric Prado

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Explosive National Bestseller A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil … read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Man at Arms by Steven Pressfield

20. A Man at Arms

By: Steven Pressfield

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roma… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
Cover of Giant Killers, War Heroes and Special Forces Legends by David A. Yuzuk

21. Giant Killers, War Heroes and Special Forces Legends

By: David A. Yuzuk

4.42

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

What causes a soldier to make the split second to decision to jump on a grenade and sacrifice his l… read more

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10 Top history books like Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism by Tim Keown, Billy Waugh

Transform Your Habits

Bravo Two Zero

Andy McNab

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat

James R. McDonough

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

Pete Blaber

4.33

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14 must-read history books like The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen

Transform Your Habits

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Enemies: A History of the FBI

Tim Weiner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

3.70

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