Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
8 best books like Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Matt Gallagher): The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, The Last Full Measure, Nightfall, Fobbit, She Weeps Each Time You're Born, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0684862212 |
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection...
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
| Author | Jeffrey S. Young |
| ISBN | 0471787841 |
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
| Author | Jeff Shaara |
| ISBN | 0345434811 |
In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg....
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0553290991 |
Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall.
Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover...
| Author | David Abrams |
| ISBN | 0802120326 |
Fobbit \’fä-bit\, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids combat by remaining at the base, esp. during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2011). Pejorative.
In the satirical tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, Fobbit takes us into the chaotic world...
| Author | Quan Barry |
| ISBN | 0307911772 |
Quan Barry’s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country’s reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.
At...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
| Author | Jim Mattis |
| ISBN | 0812996836 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.
Call...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
| Author | William H. McRaven |
| ISBN | 1538715538 |
In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some...
