11 best-selling history books like A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels

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A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

By: Hannes Wessels

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reput…

If you liked the history plot in A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Pete Blaber's The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

2. The Rhodesian War: A Military History

By: Paul Moorcraft , Peter McLaughlin

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial r… read more

Similar categories in Paul Moorcraft's The Rhodesian War: A Military History book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • africa
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

3. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

By: Günter K. Koschorrek

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more

Similar categories in Günter K. Koschorrek's Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

4. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

By: Peter Godwin

3.57

Format: 432 pages,

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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. Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts

By: None

3.42

Format: 8 pages,

In "Three Sips of Gin" the author gives a fascinating account of what it was like growing up in the… read more

Similar categories in None's Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

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7. A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

By: Hannes Wessels

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reput… read more

Similar categories in Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • africa
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Jack Carr's Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7) book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • military fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Bluebeard

By: Jim Clemente

3.76

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLER In 1919, Kathryn Wombache… read more

Similar categories in Jim Clemente's Bluebeard book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • historical
  • audiobook
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10. Whispers In The Tall Grass

By: Nick Brokhausen

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MA… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brokhausen's Whispers In The Tall Grass book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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11. FOREVER AND A WAKE-UP (MILES TO VIETNAM Book 3)

By: William Peter Grasso

4.51

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

March 1968: The Miles to Vietnam war saga continues, and Second Lieutenant Jif Miles is in the midd… read more

Similar categories in William Peter Grasso's FOREVER AND A WAKE-UP (MILES TO VIETNAM Book 3) book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • military fiction

12. The Shortest History of War

By: Gwynne Dyer

4.01

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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13. We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam

By: Nick Brokhausen

4.40

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

A Green Beret’s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brokhausen's We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • history
  • biography
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of World War Two

By: C.E. Lucas Phillips

4.15

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

In December 1942, ten Royal Marines launched a daring canoe attack on German ships lying in Bordeau… read more

Similar categories in C.E. Lucas Phillips's Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of World War Two book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Moon Above, Moon Below (Moon Brothers WWII Adventure, #1) by William Peter Grasso

15. Moon Above, Moon Below (Moon Brothers WWII Adventure, #1)

By: William Peter Grasso

4.31

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

France, August 1944. In this alternate history WW2 adventure, American and British forces struggle … read more

Similar categories in William Peter Grasso's Moon Above, Moon Below (Moon Brothers WWII Adventure, #1) book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

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

16. 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

Similar categories in Gregory Michael Budd's Sunday Bloody Sunday: A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • nonfiction
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17. Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

By: A.J. Balaam

3.72

Format: 540 pages, Kindle Edition

From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rh… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Balaam's Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • africa
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin

18. The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

By: Joel Kotkin

3.61

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably ret… read more

Similar categories in Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. SIERRA WHISKEY Ten Years in South African Special Forces

By: SW Fourie

4.20

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of Schalk W Fourie’s ten years in the elite South African Army Special Forces, co… read more

Similar categories in SW Fourie's SIERRA WHISKEY Ten Years in South African Special Forces book and Hannes Wessels's A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

  • military history
Cover of Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 by Peter Baxter

20. Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980

By: Peter Baxter

4.31

Format: 777 pages, Kindle Edition

Before there was Zimbabwe, there was Rhodesia, a British colony founded by the great capital imperi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • africa
Cover of Fire Force: A Trooper's War In The Rhodesian Light Infantry by Chris  Cocks

21. Fire Force: A Trooper's War In The Rhodesian Light Infantry

By: Chris Cocks

4.32

Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition

Fire Force is the compelling, brutal account of Chris Cocks' service in 3 Commando, the Rhodesian L… read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

6 must-read audiobook books like A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels

Transform Your Habits

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

Pete Blaber

4.33

Transform Your Habits

A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

Hannes Wessels

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

Jack Carr

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Bluebeard

Jim Clemente

3.76

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21 Top history books like Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of World War Two by C.E. Lucas Phillips

Transform Your Habits

The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

Charles Whiting

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Operation Afrika: A ruthless battle for victory in the desert (Destroyers WWII Thriller Series Book 1)

Charles Whiting

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

Charles Whiting

4.17

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