Biography & Autobiography - Military

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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

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

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

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 ...

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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

From Fright to Fight to Farm: A Journ...

Ernest Kaufman

This author's "Journey of Survival" began in Germany, where he was expelled from school at age 15 because he was Jewish, shattering his dreams of becoming a veterinarian, and where, for the same reason, at age 18 he was inca...

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Published: Jan 2016

Undersea Warrior: The World War II St...

Don Keith

No man above or below the waves was as admired--or feared--as this determined naval commander... Among submariners in World War II, Dudley "Mush" Morton stood out as a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he co...

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Published: Nov 2012

Never Call Me a Hero: An Autobiograph...

N. Jack Kleiss

National Bestseller• "An instant classic." —Dallas Morning NewsOn the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD ...

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Published: May 2018

American Sniper [Movie Tie-in Edition...

Chris Kyle

Now a major motion pictureFrom 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and ste...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE ...

Kevin Lacz

"One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq," (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL...

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Published: Feb 2017

Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, ...

Ray Lambert

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day--read the astonishing true story celebrated by Tom Brokaw, CBS This Morning, NPR, and the President. Seventy-five years ago, he hit ...

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Published: May 2020

Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refu...

Eric Lichtblau

The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis’ rise to power....

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Published: Oct 2020

Great Captains Unveiled

Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jenghiz Khan (1167?–1227) and Sabutai (1172?–1245), who led their Mongol cavalry into the h...

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Published: Mar 1996

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The ...

Paul Douglas Lockhart

The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating fi...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The...

Callum MacDonald

If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942)—chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechosl...

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Published: Aug 1998

Battleground Pacific: A Marine Riflem...

Sterling Mace

A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MILITARY MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WORLD WAR II'S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and hi...

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Published: May 2013

What They Don't Teach You in Deer Riv...

Julia a. Maki

I grew up in Deer River, MN - a one-stoplight town of 903 people. Two weeks after I graduated high school way back in the old days (1997) when everything was in black and white, I enlisted in the Navy in a combat aircrew position tha...

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Published: Dec 2015
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