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Hue 1968

Mark Bowden

2017

NON-FICTION

Gripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Combined Arms, Modern
MATCH 14
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway

1992

NON-FICTION

Definitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Combined Arms, Modern
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The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

1990

FICTION

Landmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Combined Arms, Modern
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Dispatches

Michael Herr

1977

MEMOIR

Iconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Combined Arms, Modern
MATCH 11
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America

Evan Wright

2004

NON-FICTION

Rolling Stone journalist's embedded account of the 1st Recon Battalion's charge through Iraq in the opening weeks of the 2003 invasion — raw, unfiltered, and unflinching.

Tags: Combined Arms, Modern, Tactical
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Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs

H.R. McMaster

1997

NON-FICTION

Controversial argument that the Vietnam War was lost as much by deception and institutional failures at the top of the U.S. military and government as by battlefield failure.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Leadership
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The Battle for the Falklands
The Battle for the Falklands

Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins

1983

NON-FICTION

"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands." -James M. Gavin

Tags: Combined Arms, Modern, Naval
MATCH 08
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan

1988

NON-FICTION

Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the Vietnam War seen through the career of John Paul Vann, a soldier who saw through official optimism.

Tags: Asia, Cold War
MATCH 08
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

Robert L. O'Connell

2010

NON-FICTION

Account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy and the catastrophic Roman defeat at Cannae, the tactical masterpiece that still influences military thought.

Tags: Europe, Tactical
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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir

Hampton Sides

2018

NON-FICTION

Gripping narrative of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir — where 15,000 UN troops were surrounded by 120,000 Chinese soldiers in brutal Korean winter and fought their way to the sea.

Tags: Asia, Cold War
MATCH 08
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

2004

NON-FICTION

Revisionist biography of Genghis Khan arguing that the Mongol conquests, far from being purely destructive, created the first global trading network and spread technological innovation across Eurasia.

Tags: Asia, Leadership
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House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

David Bellavia

2007

MEMOIR

First-person account of urban combat in Fallujah in November 2004 by a decorated Army staff sergeant. The most visceral account of close-quarters combat in the Iraq War.

Tags: Modern, Tactical
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing

Marcus Luttrell

2007

MEMOIR

The story of Operation Red Wings — a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan that went catastrophically wrong, told by the only survivor.

Tags: Modern, Tactical
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

Bing West

2005

NON-FICTION

Marine veteran and journalist Bing West's on-the-ground account of the two battles for Fallujah — the first assault halted by political pressure and the brutal second assault that cleared the city.

Tags: Modern, Tactical
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Shadow on the White House
Shadow on the White House

David L. Anderson

1993

NON-FICTION

Harry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism in 1945. Thirty years and five administrations later, ...

Tags: Europe, Renaissance
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Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 November-11 December 1950

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

1983

NON-FICTION

This battle analysis addresses the battle of Chosin Reservoir from 27 November to 11 December 1950 in northeastern North Korea during which the 1st Marine Division and some attached U.S. Army units fo...

Tags: Asia, Cold War
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Frozen Chosin

Edwin H. Simmons, Usmc (Ret ) Brigadier General Simmons

2014

NON-FICTION

Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, Chosin also called Changjin, campaign early in the Korean War, part of the Chinese Second Offensive (November–December 1950) to drive the United Nations out of North Ko...

Tags: Asia, Cold War
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Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 NOV-11 DEC 1950

F.M. Berger

1983

NON-FICTION

Analyse fra Korea-krigen af kampene ved Chosin, hvor 1. US Marine Division, der var omringet af talstærke kinesiske styrker, slog sig igennem medbringende deres materiel og sårede.

Tags: Asia, Cold War
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Attack at Chosin
Attack at Chosin

Xiaobing Li

2020

NON-FICTION

For members of the U.S. Army’s “Task Force Faith” and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, courage, and ingenuity. Their exploits are well known—wove...

Tags: Asia, Cold War
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Chosin
Chosin

Eric Hammel

2007

NON-FICTION

It was 1950, a brutally cold November in North Korea, and the war seemed all but over. And then a force of nearly 70,000 Chinese "volunteers" crossed the Yalu River, encircling the 30,000 United Natio...

Tags: Asia, Cold War