Biography & Autobiography - Military

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Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S...

Robert Coram

Victor "Brute" Krulak is arguably the most important officer in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. In China, he went on daring spy missions. In World War II, he was instrumental in developing amphibious vehicles, and mast...

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Published: Nov 2011

Cochrane: The Real Master and Command...

David Cordingly

From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

Cochrane: The Real Master and Command...

David Cordingly

From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2007

The Other Vietnam War: A Helicopter P...

Marc Cullison

Each of us who served in Vietnam was the guy next door, the average Joe, not a hero. The boy who might date your daughter or sister. The young man who might mow your yard. In Vietnam, we weren't out to be heroes. We just did our jobs....

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Published: May 2015

Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Vi...

Cecil B. Currey

Tells the full story of the man who fought three of the world's great powers—and won. Cecil B. Currey makes clear one primary reason why America lost the Vietnam War: Vo Nguyen Giap. He has written the definitive biography of one of...

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Published: Apr 2005

Stonewall Jackson (Great Generals)

Donald A. Davis

Deemed 'irreplaceable' by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall's leadershi...

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Published: Apr 2009

FALLING INTO GRACE

Michael Dietrich

He had jumped 28 times before, exhilarated by the panoramic view. Why should this jump be any different? But it was. First, there was no familiar tug when the canopy should have billowed out. Next, all he could see over his head...

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Published: Jan 2015

The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True St...

John (Chick) Donohue

In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing...

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Published: May 2017

Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Be...

Mike Dowling

The thrilling and inspiring story of a U.S. Marine and his dog Rex, a bomb sniffing German Shepard, who forged a bond of trust and loyalty while serving on the war-torn streets of Iraq's most dangerous city./PDeployed to Iraq's infamo...

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Published: Oct 2012

Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission Tha...

Bob Drury

"A fast-paced, well-researched…irresistible" (USA TODAY) World War II aviation account of friendship, heroism, and sacrifice that reads like Unbroken meets The Dirty Dozen from the authors of the #1 New York Times bestsell...

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Published: Oct 2017

What the Private Saw: The Civil War L...

Larry M. Edwards

"The generals did not see what the privates saw." So wrote U.S. Civil War veteran Pvt. Oney Foster Sweet, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, 43rd Pennsylvania Volunteers (14th Reserves) Battery F (Ricketts' Battery), 1861-186...

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Published: Apr 2015

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the...

Amaryllis Fox

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \r\n\r\n“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love.\" —The New York Times\r\n\r\nAmaryllis Fox\'s riveting mem...

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Published: Sep 2020

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of ...

Matti Friedman

"A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last."—The Wall Street Journal "Friedman's sober and striking new memoir ....

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Published: Apr 2017

Rifleman/Doctor: A Marine Corps Physi...

Warren S. Gilbert MD

Warren S. Gilbert grew up on the streets of Chicago, and no one expected him to accomplish much. Even so, his athleticism paved the way for him to attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and his intellect led him to Rush Medical ...

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Published: Apr 2014

Living with Honor: A Memoir

Sal Giunta

Medal of Honor winner Staff Sergeant "Sal" Giunta's empowering memoir describes a boy working at a Subway shop who was attracted to an Army recruiting center by a free T-shirt, but left inspired by the thought of making a di...

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Published: Jul 2013

Dagger 22: U.S. Marine Corps Special ...

Michael Golembesky

The thrilling true story of a Marine special operations unit in a battle for their lives in AfghanistanLevel Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky's New York Times bestselling account of Marine Special Operations Team 8222 in Bala Murghab, ...

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Published: Sep 2017

Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?

Horace Greasley

An incredible true tale of one man's courage and defiance of the German nation in the name of loveHorace "Jim" Greasley was 20 years old in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. There had ...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Longest Kill: The Story of Maveri...

Craig Harrison

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig H...

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Published: Feb 2017

A Young Man in the Wild Blue Yonder: ...

David K. Hayward

David Hayward, a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, takes the reader through his adventures and challenges as a young man serving his country in World War II. Would he "wash out" of flying school? Would he survive the dange...

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Published: Dec 2013

Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story o...

Bruce Henderson

[Read by Brett Barry]In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2017

Walking in the Shadow of Death: The S...

William Henderson

This is a story of a Vietnam Infantry Soldier who along with his second platoon survived the mountainous jungles of South Vietnam against a determined enemy.My prayers, which always gives me comfort in the most difficult moments of my...

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Published: Oct 2017

A Ship With No Name

Richard Hersey

This is the story of rescue operations in the English Channel just before, during, and after the D-Day invasion aboard an ocean-going tug, "a ship with no name." The memoir, written by the executive officer of ATR-3, tells ...

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Published: Sep 2011

Hill 488

Ray Hildreth

On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2015

Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobio...

Rudolf Hoess

A self-portrait, composed by one of the greatest monsters of all time: Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant at Auschwitz, and the man who knew more than almost anyone about how Nazi Germany implemented the Final Solution. Captured by the Brit...

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Published: Dec 2000

We Shall Never Forget You: Our Hometo...

Stephen Hunter

We Shall Never Forget' is a collection of exciting real-life stories about our hometown military heroes from the Edgewater/Annapolis, Maryland area. The book was written by Eagle Scout Stephen Hunter with the assistance of fellow Sco...

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Published: May 2005

The Reaper: Autobiography of One of t...

Nicholas Irving

Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills, though his remarkable caree...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2015

Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold...

Nicholas Irving

From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful audiobook on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016

Heart of a Warrior

Robert Jones

Robert Jones, a highly decorated war hero, earned four Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star as a Special Operations Sniper. He not only lived though combat—he thrived on it. The worst day of his life was being told he couldn't return to ...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2013

American Warlords: How Roosevelt's Hi...

Jonathan W. Jordan

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan W. Jordan—author of Brothers, Rivals, Victors—comes the intimate true story of President Franklin Roosevelt's inner circle of military leadership, the team of rivals who shaped World...

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Published: May 2016

Storm of Steel

Ernst Junger

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, bu...

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Published: May 2004
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