Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books

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Last Round: The Red Caps, The Paras and The Battle of Majar
Last Round: The Red Caps, The Paras and The Battle of Majar 4.04 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban 3.92 avg rating β€” 746 ratings
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The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS
The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,451 ratings
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The New Iraq: Rebuilding The Country For Its People, The Middle East, And The World
The New Iraq: Rebuilding The Country For Its People, The Middle East, And The World 3.14 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Not in the Wind, Earthquake, or Fire
Not in the Wind, Earthquake, or Fire 4.18 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,462 ratings
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Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq
Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq 3.70 avg rating β€” 122 ratings
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One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
by: Bing West
4.24 avg rating β€” 1,015 ratings
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS 4.32 avg rating β€” 15,919 ratings
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Youngblood
Youngblood 3.86 avg rating β€” 755 ratings
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The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior 4.42 avg rating β€” 12,069 ratings
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Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,596 ratings
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The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq
The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq 3.85 avg rating β€” 171 ratings
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Saber's Edge: A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq
Saber's Edge: A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq 3.52 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Hogs in the Shadows: Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq
Hogs in the Shadows: Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq 4.01 avg rating β€” 472 ratings
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First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,841 ratings
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Guantanamo: What the World Should Know
Guantanamo: What the World Should Know 3.51 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
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The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion Of Glory And The Reality Of War
The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion Of Glory And The Reality Of War 3.79 avg rating β€” 212 ratings
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McCoy's Marines: Darkside To Baghdad
McCoy's Marines: Darkside To Baghdad 4.07 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia 3.75 avg rating β€” 547 ratings
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Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,201 ratings
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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper 4.01 avg rating β€” 4,921 ratings
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The Chosen Few: One US Army Company's Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan
The Chosen Few: One US Army Company's Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan 4.45 avg rating β€” 848 ratings
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The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers 4.17 avg rating β€” 5,590 ratings
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Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,802 ratings
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia 3.98 avg rating β€” 4,735 ratings
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A Marine at the Door
A Marine at the Door 3.50 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Making Friends Among the Taliban: A Peacemaker's Journey in Afghanistan
Making Friends Among the Taliban: A Peacemaker's Journey in Afghanistan 3.80 avg rating β€” 82 ratings
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Baghdad Fixer
Baghdad Fixer 3.88 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
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After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam 4.09 avg rating β€” 9,408 ratings
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Beowulf in Iraq - Lessons from an ancient warrior for the modern age
Beowulf in Iraq - Lessons from an ancient warrior for the modern age really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison
Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison 4.31 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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The Last Day
The Last Day 3.49 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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Crossfire (Nick Stone #10)
Crossfire (Nick Stone #10) 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,952 ratings
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Jeegareh Ma
Jeegareh Ma 4.15 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-conservative Trotskyites Came to Power & Orchestrated the War Against Iraq
The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-conservative Trotskyites Came to Power & Orchestrated the War Against Iraq 4.24 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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Leaving the Wire: An Infantryman's Iraq
Leaving the Wire: An Infantryman's Iraq 4.22 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
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I Wait: A Subjective Portrait of PTSD
I Wait: A Subjective Portrait of PTSD 3.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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War of the Encyclopaedists
War of the Encyclopaedists 3.47 avg rating β€” 637 ratings
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A Prince Among Men (Task Force Zeta, #6)
A Prince Among Men (Task Force Zeta, #6) 4.19 avg rating β€” 467 ratings
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Blasted By Adversity: The Making of a Wounded Warrior
Blasted By Adversity: The Making of a Wounded Warrior 4.88 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker
My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker 3.90 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
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Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq
Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq 4.70 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Barefoot Soldier: A Story of Extreme Valour
Barefoot Soldier: A Story of Extreme Valour 4.15 avg rating β€” 295 ratings
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The Stick Soldiers
The Stick Soldiers 4.31 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
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The Ghosts of Babylon
The Ghosts of Babylon 4.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Quest For War: And One Green Beret's Subsequent Evolution
Quest For War: And One Green Beret's Subsequent Evolution 4.62 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Does My Suicide Vest Make Me Look Fat?: A Soldier's Year in Iraq
Does My Suicide Vest Make Me Look Fat?: A Soldier's Year in Iraq 4.02 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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All in: The Globe Trot Shuffle (Warden, #1)
All in: The Globe Trot Shuffle (Warden, #1) 3.75 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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This Shall Be a House of Peace
This Shall Be a House of Peace 4.09 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
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Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan 4.66 avg rating β€” 504 ratings
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The Horse Latitudes
The Horse Latitudes 4.68 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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Murder In Room 117: Solving The Cold Case That Led To America's Longest War
Murder In Room 117: Solving The Cold Case That Led To America's Longest War 4.40 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley 4.53 avg rating β€” 371 ratings
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Cherry
Cherry 3.48 avg rating β€” 20,989 ratings
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Painting the Sand
Painting the Sand 4.36 avg rating β€” 1,037 ratings
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Marines in the Garden of Eden: The Battle for an Nasiriyah
Marines in the Garden of Eden: The Battle for an Nasiriyah 4.15 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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The Madman of Freedom Square
The Madman of Freedom Square 3.88 avg rating β€” 703 ratings
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War 4.15 avg rating β€” 913 ratings
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Seven Troop
Seven Troop 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,662 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,904,546 ratings
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Saving Private Sarbi
Saving Private Sarbi 3.89 avg rating β€” 143 ratings
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Quest for War: And One Green Beret's Subsequent Evolution
Quest for War: And One Green Beret's Subsequent Evolution 4.62 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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War is Fun
War is Fun 3.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (Wo Es War Series)
Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (Wo Es War Series) 3.66 avg rating β€” 264 ratings
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All the Ruined Men: Stories
All the Ruined Men: Stories 4.38 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
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Warrior Police: Rolling with America's Military Police in the World's Trouble Spots
Warrior Police: Rolling with America's Military Police in the World's Trouble Spots 3.71 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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Fire Strike 7
Fire Strike 7 4.52 avg rating β€” 386 ratings
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
American Gods (American Gods, #1) 4.10 avg rating β€” 978,796 ratings
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Along the Watchtower
Along the Watchtower 4.30 avg rating β€” 94 ratings
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Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq
Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq 3.80 avg rating β€” 610 ratings
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MACHETE SQUAD
MACHETE SQUAD 3.65 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 4.21 avg rating β€” 4,312 ratings
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The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11 4.11 avg rating β€” 135 ratings
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Crisis of Command: How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America's Generals and Politicians
Crisis of Command: How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America's Generals and Politicians 4.18 avg rating β€” 358 ratings
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The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice 4.06 avg rating β€” 3,403 ratings
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Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14
Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14
by: Ben Barry
4.18 avg rating β€” 94 ratings
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None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism
None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism 4.17 avg rating β€” 775 ratings
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Not On My Watch: The 21st Century Combat Medic
Not On My Watch: The 21st Century Combat Medic 3.84 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin 4.47 avg rating β€” 483 ratings
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Gulf War Journal
Gulf War Journal
by: Don Lomax
3.42 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Hammerhead Six: How Green Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan's Deadly Pech Valley
Hammerhead Six: How Green Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan's Deadly Pech Valley 4.46 avg rating β€” 557 ratings
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The Stan
The Stan
by: David Axe
3.64 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate 4.09 avg rating β€” 553 ratings
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The American War in Afghanistan: A History
The American War in Afghanistan: A History 4.25 avg rating β€” 563 ratings
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Weltmacht im Treibsand: Bush gegen die Ayatollahs
Weltmacht im Treibsand: Bush gegen die Ayatollahs 4.07 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Task Force Black
Task Force Black 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,200 ratings
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Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger
Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger 4.13 avg rating β€” 641 ratings
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq 4.37 avg rating β€” 2,541 ratings
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Koloss Auf TΓΆnernen FΓΌssen Amerikas Spagat Zwischen Nordkorea Und Irak
Koloss Auf TΓΆnernen FΓΌssen Amerikas Spagat Zwischen Nordkorea Und Irak 3.90 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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Escape from Baghdad
Escape from Baghdad 4.24 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan 3.99 avg rating β€” 992 ratings
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Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at GuantΓ‘namo
Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at GuantΓ‘namo
by: Erik Saar
3.42 avg rating β€” 244 ratings
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Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery 4.20 avg rating β€” 218 ratings
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Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq
Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq 3.91 avg rating β€” 269 ratings
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Real Spy World
Real Spy World 3.60 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,601 ratings
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The Killing of Osama bin Laden
The Killing of Osama bin Laden 3.70 avg rating β€” 700 ratings
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Every Other Four
Every Other Four 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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In the Graveyard of Empires
In the Graveyard of Empires 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,342 ratings
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