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MATCH 08
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: Grand Strategic, Leadership
MATCH 08
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
MATCH 05
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: Combined Arms
MATCH 05
The Prince
The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1515

MILITARY HISTORY

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction...

Tags: Renaissance
MATCH 05
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: Combined Arms
MATCH 05
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: Combined Arms
MATCH 05
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: Combined Arms
MATCH 05
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
MATCH 03
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

Robert Coram

2002

NON-FICTION

Biography of John Boyd — the iconoclastic Air Force colonel who created the OODA loop concept and whose theories on maneuver warfare reshaped modern American military doctrine.

Tags: Leadership
MATCH 03
The Great Swindle
The Great Swindle

Pierre Lemaitre

2016

NON-FICTION

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, a timeless story of how war transforms lives in unexpected and often tragic ways as seen through the eyes of three World War I vets The year is 1918, the war o...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 03
The Fire Fighter
The Fire Fighter

Francis Cottam

2002

NON-FICTION

Sebastian Faulks meets Robert Harris in a wonderfully evocative and thrilling first novel about a firefighter in London at the height of the Blitz. Autumn, 1940, and the Luftwaffe is firebombing Londo...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 03
Haig's Medical Officer
Haig's Medical Officer

Eugene Ryan

2013

NON-FICTION

Eugene (Micky) Ryan was born in Ireland and studied medicine at Cork and Edinburgh. After a period of private practice in London he was commissioned into the RAMC in 1901 and saw active service in Sou...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 03
Sharpe's Prey
Sharpe's Prey

Bernard Cornwell

2011

NON-FICTION

The heroic Richard Sharpe finds himself (after victory in "Sharpe's Trafalgar") in Denmark, where he is fighting once again to keep the treacherous French troops at bay.

Tags: Europe
MATCH 03
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark T. Sullivan

2018

NON-FICTION

In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's mos...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 03
The Strangled Queen
The Strangled Queen

Maurice Druon

2013

NON-FICTION

'This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. Martin The King is dead. Long live the King. Philip IV is dead and his great kingdom is in disarray. It seems the fatal curse of the Templars is pla...

Tags: Europe
MATCH 02
The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953

Clay Blair

1987

NON-FICTION

The most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.

Same era
MATCH 02
The Jakarta Method
The Jakarta Method

Vincent Bevins

2020

MILITARY HISTORY

In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony ...

Same era
MATCH 02
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1900

MILITARY HISTORY

Contains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_i...

Same era
MATCH 02
The Caine mutiny
The Caine mutiny

Herman Wouk

1951

MILITARY HISTORY

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial...

Same era
MATCH 02
D-Day, June 6, 1944
D-Day, June 6, 1944

Stephen E. Ambrose

1994

MILITARY HISTORY

See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL478604W

Same era