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Best US Military Memoirs and Biographies
1.
Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division 1943-1945
by:
Skyler Bailey
4.74 avg rating β 23 ratings
2.
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
by:
Eugene B. Sledge
4.49 avg rating β 45,837 ratings
3.
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
by:
Chad L. Williams
4.31 avg rating β 130 ratings
4.
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by:
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.44 avg rating β 136,013 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by:
Laura Hillenbrand
4.39 avg rating β 989,184 ratings
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
by:
Bob Drury
4.43 avg rating β 4,530 ratings
7.
A Rumor of War
by:
Philip Caputo
4.17 avg rating β 15,736 ratings
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Richard Eager: A Pilot's Story from Tennessee Eagle Scout to General Montgomery's Flying Fortress
by:
Richard Ernest Evans
4.90 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War
by:
Kevin Sites
3.94 avg rating β 982 ratings
9.
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters
by:
Ulysses S. Grant
4.09 avg rating β 3,256 ratings
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
by:
Chester Nez
4.26 avg rating β 8,399 ratings
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
by:
Adam Makos
4.38 avg rating β 27,205 ratings
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One Shot - One Kill
by:
Charles W. Sasser
4.19 avg rating β 1,803 ratings
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
by:
Chris Kyle
4.03 avg rating β 138,795 ratings
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Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot
by:
Niloofar Rahmani
4.55 avg rating β 181 ratings
16.
Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, Vol. 2)
by:
Winston S. Churchill
4.41 avg rating β 4,446 ratings
17.
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
by:
Charles Henderson
4.31 avg rating β 10,590 ratings
17.
What It is Like to Go to War
by:
Karl Marlantes
4.01 avg rating β 9,708 ratings
17.
Wounded Warrior, Wounded Wife: Not Just Surviving But Thriving
by:
Barbara McNally
4.33 avg rating β 43 ratings
17.
Army Detective: Life and Times of Dick Miller: Retired Special Agent US Army Criminal Investigation Division
by:
Dick Miller
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
17.
Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War
by:
Peter G. Tsouras
4.30 avg rating β 27 ratings
17.
Long Daze at Long Binh: The humorous adventures of two Wisconsin draftees trained as combat medics and sent off to set up a field hospital in South Vietnam
by:
Stephen Donovan
4.02 avg rating β 48 ratings
17.
Grant
by:
Ron Chernow
4.50 avg rating β 42,006 ratings
17.
The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution
by:
Chris DeRose
4.39 avg rating β 330 ratings
17.
No Time For Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point To The West Wing
by:
Martin Dempsey
4.36 avg rating β 387 ratings
17.
Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
by:
John C. McManus
4.11 avg rating β 260 ratings
17.
Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction
by:
Tammy Pemper
4.29 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
by:
Brent E. Jones
4.44 avg rating β 239 ratings
17.
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.
Still a PFC: A Combat Marine in World War II: The Pacific Theater (1942-1945): Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam, & Iwo Jima
by:
Eugene H. Peterson
4.42 avg rating β 639 ratings
17.
Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967
by:
Doyle D. Glass
4.51 avg rating β 1,257 ratings
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No Soldier Left Behind: The Life and Times of Brigadier General John G Kulhavi, United States Army, Ret.
by:
Donald Steele
4.86 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
by:
Doug Stanton
4.15 avg rating β 8,711 ratings
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Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
by:
David McKean
4.31 avg rating β 405 ratings
35.
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
by:
Evan Wright
4.29 avg rating β 20,084 ratings
35.
South From Corregidor: The complete story with new photographs, maps and addendum
by:
John Morrill
4.45 avg rating β 86 ratings
35.
When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir
by:
Bob Kerrey
3.52 avg rating β 107 ratings
38.
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
by:
Patrick K. O'Donnell
4.28 avg rating β 1,916 ratings
38.
They Called Her Reckless: A True Story of War, Love And One Extraordinary Horse
by:
Janet Barrett
4.15 avg rating β 88 ratings
38.
The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey
by:
Gregory L. Vistica
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
41.
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
by:
Robert Leckie
4.23 avg rating β 24,385 ratings
41.
Making the Corps
by:
Thomas E. Ricks
4.06 avg rating β 2,249 ratings
41.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
by:
Neil Sheehan
4.24 avg rating β 12,399 ratings
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The Doom Pussy
by:
Elaine Shepard
3.94 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by:
Anthony Swofford
3.70 avg rating β 11,787 ratings
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
by:
William Manchester
4.19 avg rating β 6,387 ratings
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
by:
Marcus Luttrell
4.34 avg rating β 99,165 ratings
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Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
by:
Douglas Brinkley
3.49 avg rating β 130 ratings
49.
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
by:
Eugene B. Sledge
4.29 avg rating β 1,445 ratings
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Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
by:
William Prochnau
4.25 avg rating β 272 ratings
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
by:
Steve Sheinkin
4.19 avg rating β 6,084 ratings
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Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
by:
H.R. McMaster
3.99 avg rating β 4,792 ratings
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Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War
by:
Frank Antenori
4.04 avg rating β 2,156 ratings
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Westmoreland's War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam
by:
Gregory A. Daddis
3.79 avg rating β 89 ratings
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Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
by:
Donovan Campbell
4.14 avg rating β 4,436 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
by:
Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating β 4,293 ratings
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In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam
by:
Daniel H. Weiss
4.57 avg rating β 56 ratings
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Reckless: Henry Kissinger and The Tragedy of Vietnam
by:
Robert K. Brigham
3.93 avg rating β 69 ratings
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
by:
Max Boot
4.22 avg rating β 1,098 ratings
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Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq
by:
Linda Robinson
3.92 avg rating β 210 ratings
61.
The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime
by:
Brian Glyn Williams
4.30 avg rating β 118 ratings
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The Lieutenant Don't Know: One Marine's Story of Warfare and Combat Logistics in Afghanistan
by:
Jeffrey Clement
3.98 avg rating β 190 ratings
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Dagger 22: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
by:
Michael Golembesky
4.27 avg rating β 772 ratings
64.
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
65.
They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
by:
Ruben Gallego
4.07 avg rating β 592 ratings
66.
The Ragged Edge: A US Marineβs Account of Leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
by:
Michael Zacchea
4.62 avg rating β 80 ratings
67.
Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq
by:
F. Scott Service
4.70 avg rating β 20 ratings
68.
The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
by:
James Brady
3.98 avg rating β 544 ratings
69.
Gigs, Guns, and Guilt: A Musician's Tour of the Korean War
by:
Dick Slady
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
70.
White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea
by:
Ben S. Malcom
4.21 avg rating β 75 ratings
71.
Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the First World War
by:
William Henry Lowe Watson
3.83 avg rating β 279 ratings
72.
World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
by:
Elizabeth D. Samet
4.56 avg rating β 25 ratings
73.
Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
by:
Jerad W. Alexander
3.88 avg rating β 89 ratings
74.
We March At Midnight: A War Memoir
by:
Ray McPadden
4.52 avg rating β 464 ratings
75.
American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir
by:
Myra Mendible
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
76.
Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor
by:
Beau Wise
4.58 avg rating β 1,138 ratings
77.
To War Without Arms: The D-Day Diary of an Army Chaplain
by:
Rev. Alexander Reynolds RAChD
did not like it 1.00 avg rating β 1 rating
78.
Drawing D - Day: An Artist's Journey Through War
by:
Ugo Giannini
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
79.
This We'll Defend: A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath
by:
Paul Crenshaw
4.38 avg rating β 13 ratings
80.
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
by:
David Nott
4.54 avg rating β 14,423 ratings
81.
Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
by:
H. Bruce Franklin
3.83 avg rating β 24 ratings
82.
The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
by:
Janet Elizabeth Croon
4.44 avg rating β 285 ratings
83.
The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hurtgen Forest
by:
Chris J. Hartley
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 18 ratings
84.
Drawing Fire: A Pawnee, Artist, and Thunderbird in World War II
by:
Brummett Echohawk
4.57 avg rating β 23 ratings
85.
In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colley's Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry
by:
Michael K. Shaffer
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
86.
Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
by:
Michael A. Messner
4.50 avg rating β 14 ratings
87.
Winter Warrior: A Vietnam Vet's Anti-War Odyssey
by:
Eve Gilbert
3.57 avg rating β 30 ratings
88.
Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
by:
June Wandrey
4.34 avg rating β 344 ratings
89.
When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War Memoir
by:
Glyn Haynie
4.33 avg rating β 506 ratings
90.
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by:
Daniel Ellsberg
4.21 avg rating β 3,121 ratings
91.
Donut Dolly: An American Red Cross Girl's War in Vietnam (Volume 6) (North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series)
by:
Joann Puffer Kotcher
3.69 avg rating β 48 ratings
92.
The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story
by:
John Laurence
4.35 avg rating β 799 ratings
93.
World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It
by:
A. Scott Berg
4.29 avg rating β 59 ratings
94.
Torpedo Squadron Four - A Cockpit View of World War II (Air Group 4 History)
by:
Gerald W. Thomas
3.65 avg rating β 132 ratings
95.
To the Fire of Normandy and Beyond: Behind Enemy Lines during World War II
by:
Frank Kozol
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings
96.
Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63
by:
Marcelino Truong
3.86 avg rating β 896 ratings
97.
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
by:
Matti Friedman
4.05 avg rating β 1,818 ratings
98.
Rifleman/Doctor: A Marine Corps Physician's Memoir
by:
Warren S. Gilbert
3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
99.
War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones
by:
David Axe
2.87 avg rating β 620 ratings
100.
Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
by:
Thomas J. Brennan
4.42 avg rating β 326 ratings
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