Best Military Autobiographies
1. 
The 300: The Inside Story of the Missile Defenders Guarding America Against Nuclear Attack
by:
Daniel Wasserbly
3.63 avg rating β 112 ratings 
7. 
From Foxhole to Freedom: Hoosier Dale Helm's World War II European Journal
by:
H. Dale Helm
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 
13. 
In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II (North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series)
by:
James M. Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 37 ratings 13. 
The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines
by:
Chris Ryan
4.12 avg rating β 4,498 ratings 13. 
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
by:
Max Cleland
3.91 avg rating β 81 ratings 17. 
The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII)
by:
Guy Sajer
4.39 avg rating β 11,840 ratings 17. 
Immediate Action: The Explosive True Story of the Toughest--and Most Highly Secretive--Strike Force in the World
by:
Andy McNab
3.97 avg rating β 3,667 ratings 
23. 
Monty: His Part In My Victory (War Memoirs, #3)
by:
Spike Milligan
4.17 avg rating β 2,184 ratings 
26. 
This We'll Defend: A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath
by:
Paul Crenshaw
4.38 avg rating β 13 ratings 
30. 
To War Without Arms: The D-Day Diary of an Army Chaplain did not like it 1.00 avg rating β 1 rating
31. 
Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
by:
Sam R. Watkins
4.16 avg rating β 4,121 ratings 33. 
35. 
War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
by:
Andrew Carroll
4.18 avg rating β 1,106 ratings 
36. 
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by:
Dick Winters
4.33 avg rating β 19,678 ratings 
40. 
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
by:
Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating β 4,294 ratings 42. 
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot
by:
SaburΕ Sakai
4.35 avg rating β 2,728 ratings 
44. 
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.10 avg rating β 24,894 ratings 46. 
48. 
Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
by:
Norman Lewis
4.25 avg rating β 2,494 ratings 50. 
The Black March: The Personal Story of an S.S. Man
by:
Peter Neumann
3.88 avg rating β 146 ratings 50. 
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
by:
Robert B. Baer
3.94 avg rating β 5,164 ratings 
52. 
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
by:
Don Malarkey
4.31 avg rating β 4,695 ratings 
58. 
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
by:
George Wilson
4.23 avg rating β 3,877 ratings 60. 
The First And The Last: The Rise And Fall Of The Luftwaffe In World War II
by:
Adolf Galland
4.16 avg rating β 1,607 ratings 60. 
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II 4.24 avg rating β 4,921 ratings
64. 
Tei, A Memoir of the End of War and Beginning of Peace
by:
Tei Fujiwara
4.57 avg rating β 88 ratings 
66. 
Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front 4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat
by:
Wesley K. Clark
3.43 avg rating β 218 ratings 
73. 
A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book)
by:
J. David Riva
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings 74. 
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point 3.78 avg rating β 483 ratings
77. 
Season of Infamy: A Diary of War and Occupation, 1939-1945
by:
Charles Rist
3.50 avg rating β 8 ratings 
80. 
Memories from the Front Line: An Ordinary Soldier's Journal of the Great War
by:
Henry Chew
4.25 avg rating β 12 ratings 
82. 
Waiting for Peace: The Journals & Correspondence of a World War II Medic 4.69 avg rating β 16 ratings
83. 
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
by:
Michael Hastings
3.93 avg rating β 2,628 ratings 84. 
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
by:
Lynne Olson
4.48 avg rating β 1,243 ratings 85. 
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
by:
Lynsey Addario
4.34 avg rating β 13,219 ratings 
87. 
Gigs, Guns, and Guilt: A Musician's Tour of the Korean War
by:
Dick Slady
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings 88. 
89. 
Hunter Killer: The True Story of the Drone Mission That Killed Anwar al-Awlaki
by:
T. Mark McCurley
3.88 avg rating β 395 ratings 90. 
Hopeless but Optimistic: Journeying through America's Endless War in Afghanistan 4.20 avg rating β 25 ratings
94. 
Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
by:
Perry A. Ulander
3.73 avg rating β 129 ratings 
96. 
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
by:
Matti Friedman
4.05 avg rating β 1,819 ratings 
99. 
On The Frontlines Of The Television War: A Legendary War Cameraman In Vietnam 4.21 avg rating β 62 ratings
100. 
Captain McCrea's War: The World War II Memoir of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Naval Aide and USS Iowa's First Commanding Officer
by:
John L. McCrea
4.46 avg rating β 28 ratings