Best Books on Special Forces Missions
1. 
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
by:
Marcus Luttrell
4.34 avg rating — 99,167 ratings 
3. 
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
by:
Mark Owen
4.03 avg rating — 56,928 ratings 
5. 
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
by:
Chris Kyle
4.03 avg rating — 138,796 ratings 6. 
In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down 4.27 avg rating — 5,874 ratings
7. 
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
by:
Eric L. Haney
4.18 avg rating — 11,245 ratings 8. 
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
by:
Pete Blaber
4.33 avg rating — 5,727 ratings 9. 
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
by:
Sean Parnell
4.40 avg rating — 12,901 ratings 10. 
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
by:
Rusty Bradley
4.33 avg rating — 5,381 ratings 11. 
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
4.30 avg rating — 24,827 ratings 12. 
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
by:
Eric Blehm
4.57 avg rating — 21,586 ratings 13. 
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
by:
Howard E. Wasdin
4.06 avg rating — 17,998 ratings 13. 
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
by:
Eric Blehm
4.32 avg rating — 4,471 ratings 
16. 
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
by:
Doug Stanton
4.15 avg rating — 8,711 ratings 17. 
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
by:
Hampton Sides
4.25 avg rating — 38,778 ratings 18. 
20. 
Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan 4.23 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
21. 
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
by:
Dalton Fury
4.06 avg rating — 3,002 ratings 22. 
Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
by:
Sean Naylor
4.15 avg rating — 3,813 ratings 23. 
Seal of Honor: Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN
by:
Gary Williams
4.34 avg rating — 2,894 ratings 
25. 
Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces
by:
Linda Robinson
3.98 avg rating — 1,274 ratings 26. 
Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War
by:
Frank Antenori
4.04 avg rating — 2,156 ratings 27. 
The Night Stalkers: Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment 4.23 avg rating — 1,847 ratings
28. 
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
by:
Gary Schroen
4.05 avg rating — 1,841 ratings 29. 
SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
by:
John L. Plaster
4.36 avg rating — 1,971 ratings 30. 
The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines
by:
Chris Ryan
4.12 avg rating — 4,498 ratings 31. 
No Ordinary Dog: My Partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden Raid
by:
Will Chesney
4.55 avg rating — 2,819 ratings 32. 
Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism
by:
Billy Waugh
4.15 avg rating — 1,544 ratings 33. 
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by:
Steve Coll
4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings 34. 
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
by:
Gary Berntsen
3.97 avg rating — 1,802 ratings 35. 
The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen
by:
Brandon Webb
4.24 avg rating — 5,087 ratings 36. 
Desperate Lands: The War on Terror Through The Eyes of a Special Forces Soldier
by:
Regulo Zapata
3.72 avg rating — 64 ratings 
38. 
Level Zero Heroes: The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan 4.31 avg rating — 2,139 ratings
39. 
To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
by:
Derek Leebaert
3.75 avg rating — 151 ratings 
42. 
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
by:
Sean Naylor
4.27 avg rating — 2,278 ratings 
46. 
Code Name: Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs
by:
Johnny Walker
4.21 avg rating — 1,637 ratings 
50. 
SEAL Warrior- Vietnam: Three Tours Of Duty 1968--1972
by:
Thomas H. Keith
4.07 avg rating — 211 ratings 
51. 
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
by:
Robert O'Neill
4.42 avg rating — 12,069 ratings 53. 
Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist 4.08 avg rating — 239 ratings
57. 
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
by:
Mike Coburn
4.06 avg rating — 356 ratings 58. 
The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
by:
Michael T. Flynn
3.62 avg rating — 597 ratings 58. 
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
by:
Tracy Walder
3.84 avg rating — 6,042 ratings 
61. 
Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since 9/11
by:
Seth G. Jones
4.06 avg rating — 244 ratings 62. 
The Amazing SAS: The Inside Story of Australia's Special Forces
by:
Ian Mcpherdran
3.83 avg rating — 227 ratings 
64. 
The ISIS Solution: How Unconventional Thinking and Special Operations Can Eliminate Radical Islam
by:
Jack Murphy
3.59 avg rating — 158 ratings 
68. 
Love Me When I'm Gone: The true story of life, love and loss for a Green Beret in post-9/11 war 4.17 avg rating — 159 ratings
69. 
All Secure: One Delta Force Operator's Fight From the Battlefield to the Homefront
by:
Tom Satterly
4.54 avg rating — 889 ratings 
73. 
The Quiet Professional: Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces (American Warrior Series)
by:
Alan Hoe
4.38 avg rating — 193 ratings 
75. 
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
by:
Kevin Lacz
4.40 avg rating — 3,348 ratings 76. 
Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace
by:
Ira Teller
4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings 76. 
Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 (Warfare in History, 24) 3.70 avg rating — 333 ratings
76. 
To The Last Man: The Incredible True Story of US Army Sergeant William T. Miles
by:
Alexander Cohen
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 76. 
Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War
by:
Peter G. Tsouras
4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings 
76. 
Conceal Reveal: The Space between Entrepreneurs and the Defense Industry
by:
Julie Willis
4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 76. 
Marcos Betrayal: The Hunter and The Orb (Marcos Series Book 1)
by:
M.J. Anand
4.16 avg rating — 67 ratings 76. 
Slay the Dragon: An Adam Weldon Thriller (Adam Weldon Thriller Series by William McGinnis)
by:
William McGinnis
4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings 76. 
We Don't Want YOU, Uncle Sam: Examining the Military Recruiting Crisis with Generation Z
by:
Matthew Weiss
4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings 76. 
The Guts to Try: The Untold Story of the Iran Hostage Rescue Mission by the On-Scene Desert Commander
by:
James H. Kyle
4.12 avg rating — 136 ratings 90. 
Quest for War: And One Green Beret's Subsequent Evolution
by:
Mark Giaconia
4.62 avg rating — 24 ratings 90. 
Shooting At The Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos
by:
Roger Warner
4.11 avg rating — 119 ratings 90. 
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.19 avg rating — 7,053 ratings 93. 
Operation Viking Hammer: A Green Beret's Firsthand Account of Unconventional Warfare in Northern Iraq, 2003
by:
Mark Giaconia
4.05 avg rating — 60 ratings 93. 
Slaver's Wheel: A Green Beret's True Story of His CLASSIFIED MISSION in the Congo
by:
Jack Lawson
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings 
96. 
Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan (Elite, 163)
by:
Leigh Neville
3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings 
98. 
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
by:
Nicholas Irving
4.17 avg rating — 5,590 ratings 99. 
Dagger 22: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan 4.27 avg rating — 772 ratings
100. 
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story
by:
Damien Lewis
4.15 avg rating — 1,472 ratings