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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, Casey Kuhlman · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorThe Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
Nicholas Irving, Gary Brozek · 316 pages
A memoir by a Special Operations Direct Action Sniper traces his extraordinary career during the War on Terror, which was marked by his record-setting deployment to Afghanistan and his face-off against an enemy sniper known only as The Chechnian.
Service: A Navy SEAL at War
Marcus Luttrell · 364 pages
The author, a Navy SEAL, returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him, and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for the sake of family, nation, a
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice · 502 pages
The astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, whose record 150 confirmed kills make him the most deadly sniper in U.S. military history.
Immediate Action
Andy McNab · 458 pages
The most astonishing true story you will ever read - by the author of the million-copy bestseller, Bravo Two Zero.Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War.As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends
William Guarnere, Robyn Post · 308 pages
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
Clinton Romesha · 389 pages
An account of the horrendous October 2009 attack on the American Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan, told in a frank, engaging vernacular by the staff sergeant and Medal of Honor winner. Romesha ably captures the daily dangers faced by these courageous American soldiers in Afghanistan.--
First Light
Geoffrey Wellum · 352 pages
"Geoffry Wellum tells the ... true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world has ever seen. It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him on as a 'pupil pilot' at the minimum age of seventeen and a half in 1939. In his fervor to fly, he gave little thought to the coming war"--Jacket.
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
Don Malarkey, Bob Welch · 282 pages
Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. Drafted in 1942, Malarkey became one of the one-in-six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the ground
Company Commander
Charles B. MacDonald · 293 pages
About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior
David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman · 896 pages
A startling look at the US Army from a infantry leaders level from Korea through Vietnam. Hackworth was one of the highest decorated soldiers in the army and doesn't hold back on what was wrong with the system.
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
George Wilson · 288 pages
first hand account of platoon leader with 4th infantry division from normandy to the siegfried line during last 9 months of the war. describes almost continuous combat from the infantryman's perspective. considered one of the best of its type. prose is unusually excellent for the genre. no false heroics. extremely realistic, holding back no details of the gore and misery of combat.
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin · 331 pages
For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life.
Company Aytch; or, A Side Show of the Big Show: A Classic Memoir of the Civil War
Sam R. Watkins, M. Thomas Inge · 334 pages
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer · 366 pages
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 mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the
Rogue Warrior
Richard Marcinko, John Weisman · 348 pages
"The explosive autobiography of the controversial, death-defying founder of the U.S. Navy's top secret counterterrorist unit Seal Team Six"--Front of dust jacket.
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
Rusty Bradley, Kevin Maurer · 280 pages
One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces commander. As then-Captain Rusty Bradley he began his third tour of duty in southern Afghanistan in 2006, the Taliban were poised to reclaim Kandahar Province, their strategically vital onetime capital. To
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M. Gates · 640 pages
The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
David Bellavia, John R. Bruning · 347 pages
In November, 2004, a U.S. infantry squad in Fallujah plunged into one of the most sustained and savage urban battles in the history of American men at arms. Ssg. Bellavia and his men confronted an enemy who had had weeks to prepare, booby-trapping houses, arranging ambushes, rigging entire city blocks as explosive-laden kill zones, and even stocking up on steroids. Entering one house, alone, Bella
The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen
Brandon Webb · 416 pages
Sniper One
Dan Mills · 349 pages
When Sgt. Mills and his regiment flew into southern Iraq they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds, but instead they were soon fighting for their lives in defence of their HQ, Cimic House in Al Amarah. This is the story of that defence and the unexpected hardships British soldiers had to experience.
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Eugene B. Sledge · 352 pages