Two Wars: One Hero's Fight on Two Fronts--Abroad and Within
10 best books like Two Wars: One Hero's Fight on Two Fronts--Abroad and Within (Nate Self): With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam, About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II, Leaders Eat Last, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan, A Child al Confino: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
| Author | Eugene B. Sledge |
| ISBN | 0195067142 |
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for...
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
| Author | Dick Winters |
| ISBN | 0425208133 |
They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy.
Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander—"the best combat leader in World War II" to his men....
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...
About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior
| Author | David H. Hackworth |
| ISBN | 0671526928 |
Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.
From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and...
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
| Author | Alex Kotlowitz |
| ISBN | 1984841173 |
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000...
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
| Author | Andrew Nagorski |
| ISBN | 0743281101 |
The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, seven million troops were...
| Author | Simon Sinek |
| ISBN | 1591845327 |
The highly anticipated follow-up to Simon Sinek’s global bestseller Start with Why Simon Sinek is an optimist, a visionary thinker, and a leader of the cultural revolution of WHY. His second book is the natural extension of Start with Why, expanding his ideas at the organizational level. Determining...
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
| Author | Dave Grossman |
| ISBN | 0316191442 |
The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's thesis,...
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
Former Army officer Parnell and collaborator Bruning (Shadow of the Sword) reprise Parnell’s 16 months as an infantry platoon leader in Afghanistan in this heartfelt memoir. In 2006, Parnell and his 10th Mountain Division platoon, the self-styled Outlaws, arrived in Afghanistan’s Bermel...
A Child al Confino: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy
| Author | Enrico Lamet |
| ISBN | 1440509972 |
The reading of any book on the Holocaust strikes fear in my heart, and this one is no different, except that I also came away from it with even more respect for those people who managed to survive the inhuman cruelty, deprivation and madness of that time. I was not aware, before reading this book, of the Jews,...
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
| Author | Candice Millard |
| ISBN | 0804194890 |
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
| Author | David Fisher |
| ISBN | 1627795081 |
The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know
How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger...
Trapped in Hitler's Hell: A Young Jewish Girl Discovers the Messiah's Faithfulness in the Midst of the Holocaust
| Author | Anita Dittman |
| ISBN | 0972151281 |
Anita Dittman was just a little girl when the winds of Hitler and Nazism began to blow through Germany. Raised by her Jewish mother, she first heard about Jesus when she was just six years old. By the time she was eight, she came to believe that He was her Messiah. By the time she was 10, the war had begun. Trapped...
Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction
| Author | Peter Grinspoon |
| ISBN | 0316382701 |
Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery.
Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and...
Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sergeant Bob Slaughter
| Author | John Robert Slaughter |
| ISBN | 0760331413 |
“Slaughter vividly conveys the reality of combat during World War II in his book with sweeping passages that literally place his reader on the battlefield beside him.”
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Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen of Virginias 116th Infantry...
| Author | Christopher Hibbert |
| ISBN | 1853266876 |
Waterloo was the battle that ended Napolean's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. Christopher Hibbert creates portraits of Napoleon and Wellington, of the French, English and Prussian armies, and a strategical, step-by-step reconstruction of the events that led up to the battle...
Battle: The Story of the Bulge
| Author | John Toland |
| ISBN | 0803294379 |
"The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas. . . . Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . He tastes the bitterness of defeat...
Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf
| Author | Donald Serrell Thomas |
| ISBN | 1557508089 |
The fictional heroics of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey are pale imitations of the deeds of Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane, one of the most daring and successful real-life heroes the naval world has ever seen. In this fascinating account of his life, Donald Thomas...
