The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas

7 best books like The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas (Todd Balf): The Gettysburg Address, A Talent for War, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

The Gettysburg Address

Author	Abraham Lincoln
ISBN	0395883970

I would like to respond to the unkind and unfair comments that the liberal press have made concerning Mr. Trump's recent speech, which they claim was plagiarized from President Lincoln's immortal words. There is absolutely no truth in these accusations. First, however much one may admire Lincoln,...

A Talent for War

Author	Jack McDevitt
ISBN	0441012175

This just might be some of the most creative Space Opera You've Never Heard Of. Or maybe you follow the Nebulas, the best SF nominated by other SF/F authors, and you recognize that this is fan service for and by the professionals of the field, and so praise from these people usually means that the writer...

Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

Author	Jan Wong
ISBN	0385482329

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool...

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Author	Mark Owen
ISBN	0525953728

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment

From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the...

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection

Author	Wendy Northcutt
ISBN	0452284015

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of the hapless, the heedless, and the just plain foolhardy among us.  Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety...

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...

Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

Author	Roméo Dallaire
ISBN	0345814436

Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Rom�o Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil andThey Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep into his life...