The Good Soldiers
8 best books like The Good Soldiers (David Finkel): We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam, The Yellow Birds, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War, Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, The Forever War, Redeployment, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.
In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command...
| Author | Kevin Powers |
| ISBN | 0316219363 |
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship...
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandtorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky, red dust. On rooftops, in alleyways lurk militiamen with machine guns, AK rifles and the odd rocket-propelled grenade. Artillery bombardment...
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
| Author | Anthony Swofford |
| ISBN | 0743287215 |
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his...
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
| Author | Jon Krakauer |
| ISBN | 0385522266 |
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible...
| Author | Dexter Filkins |
| ISBN | 0307266397 |
From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam...
| Author | Phil Klay |
| ISBN | 1594204993 |
Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these...
| Author | Ben Fountain |
| ISBN | 0060885599 |
Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk is a razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq. It explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad.
Ben Fountain’s remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through...
