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ELUSIVE VICTORY: THE AIR WAR OVER THE SUEZ CANAL, 1967-1973

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MATCH 15
A Moving River of Tears
A Moving River of Tears

Temira Pachmuss

1992

NON-FICTION

This volume surveys the Russian effort throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries to unite Russian and Finnish literature. The book discusses various contacts, meetings, disag...

Same warTags: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
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: Cold War, Modern
MATCH 08
Soviet storm

Mike Lepine

2016

MILITARY HISTORY

Soviet Storm tells the complete story of the War on the Eastern Front, profiling the epic campaigns and battles, revealing the tactics employed by both sides and exposing the true horrors of a conflic...

Tags: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
The Forever War
The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

1974

MILITARY SCI-FI

"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space a...

Tags: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
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: Cold War, Modern
MATCH 08
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: Cold War, Modern
MATCH 08
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: Cold War, Modern
MATCH 08
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: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
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: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
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: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
Hunter in the Storm
Hunter in the Storm

Caleb Anthrop

2023

FICTION

In a time of absolute war, one young man’s journey begins with an unbearable loss. Recruited into a unit tied to the founding of America, he will get a chance not only for revenge, but become an integ...

Tags: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm

Robert Michael Citino

2004

NON-FICTION

When Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it forever changed the way the world waged war. Although the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed to superior Allied firepower in a two-front...

Tags: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 08
The Storm of War
The Storm of War

Andrew Roberts

2011

NON-FICTION

“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better...

Tags: Middle East, Modern
MATCH 05
Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

1998

FICTION

A vivid fictional account of the 300 Spartans who held the pass at Thermopylae. Widely regarded as the finest military historical novel ever written.

Tags: Middle East
MATCH 05
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

2003

NON-FICTION

Gripping narrative of Rome's transformation from republic to empire, from Sulla's march on Rome to Julius Caesar's assassination.

Tags: Middle East
MATCH 05
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.

Tags: Cold War
MATCH 05
Korean War
Korean War

Captivating History

2017

MILITARY HISTORY

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings—preeminent military historian—takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to...

Tags: Modern
MATCH 05
Howards End
Howards End

E. M. Forster

1910

MILITARY HISTORY

Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensi...

Tags: Modern
MATCH 05
Het Achterhuis
Het Achterhuis

Anne Frank

1944

MILITARY HISTORY

Het Achterhuis is de titel van het dagboek van Anne Frank (1929-1945) voor het eerst uitgegeven op 25 juni 1947. Het is genoemd naar het onderduikpand Het Achterhuis op de Prinsengracht en is het verh...

Tags: Modern
MATCH 05
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

1880

MILITARY HISTORY

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as see...

Tags: Modern