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MATCH 14
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, Tactical, Urban
MATCH 12
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: Memoir, Modern, TacticalThemes: Memoir
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: Middle East, Modern, Tactical
MATCH 09
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: Memoir, ModernThemes: Memoir
MATCH 09
Blood and Thunder
Blood and Thunder

Hampton Sides

2006

MEMOIR

Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chell...

Tags: Memoir, ModernThemes: Memoir
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: Infantry, Modern
MATCH 08
The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II

John Ellis

1980

NON-FICTION

Classic examination of what combat was actually like for the ordinary infantryman in WWII — covering fear, exhaustion, morale, and the gulf between official narratives and soldier reality.

Tags: Infantry, Tactical
MATCH 08
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...

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 06
The Face of Battle

John Keegan

1976

NON-FICTION

Landmark study examining three battles — Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme — from the perspective of the ordinary soldier, asking what combat is actually like for those who must endure it.

Tags: Infantry, Tactical
MATCH 06
The Last King of America
The Last King of America

Andrew Roberts

2021

MEMOIR

From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his...

Tags: MemoirThemes: Memoir
MATCH 06
Grant: A Biography
Grant: A Biography

John Mosier

2006

MEMOIR

The newest biography in Wesley Clark's Great Generals series details the life and legacy of one of America's most ingenious military minds

Tags: MemoirThemes: Memoir
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: Modern
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: Infantry
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