 The Airmen and the Headhunters
A True Story of Lost Solders, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II.
By Judith Heimann
See: Interview with Judith Heimann |
 The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945
History buffs, Ken Burns fans, and anyone whose life has been touched by war will be awed by Burns's new book, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, a stunning companion to his PBS series.
By Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns |
 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
By Marcus Luttrell |
 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Ricks gives a thorough and devastating history of the War in Iraq.
By Thomas E. Ricks |
 At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
Ex-CIA chief's controversial memoir gives his account on Iraq, the 'slam dunk' and more.
By George Tenet |
 Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan
True story of the heroic efforts to rescue Navy SEAL Neil Roberts in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in March 2002.
By Malcolm MacPherson |
 What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It
"They tell us about their lives and careers, their families back home, their days and nights, the Iraqis they've encountered, the fear and the courage and the challenges of fighting a war when the enemy is everywhere and nowhere at once."
By Trish Wood, Bobby Muller |
 Flags of our Fathers
The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in 1945 on a rocky island south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to earth: in a month's time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would die defending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan, while nearly 7,000 Americans were killed taking it from them.
By James Bradley, Ron Powers |
 Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
Wall Street commodities trader, galvanized by 9/11, rejoins the Corps and finds himself charged with the murder of two Iraqi insurgents. By Ilario Pantano |
 My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Buzzell converts his widely read 2004 blog into an episodic but captivating memoir about the year he spent serving as an army "trigger puller" in Iraq. By Colby Buzzell |
 The One Percent Doctrine
Suskind will show readers what he calls "the invisible battlefield" - a global matrix where U.S. spies race to catch soldiers of jihad before they strike. It is a real life spy thriller with the world's future at stake. By Ron Suskind |
 Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
Book chronicles the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by student militants, who held 66 American staffers hostage from November 1979 till January 1981, seizing this nation's attention in the process. By Mark Bowden |
 Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Hindsight is 20/20 and this book gives a clear analysis of Iraq War miscalculations by the Bush Administration, the CIA, and top military brass.
By Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor |
 A Sniper's Journey: The Truth About the Man Behind the Rifle
A compelling, troubling story, this war memoir recounts the hellish experiences of an 18-year-old naïf from Texas who volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War only to find himself transformed into a part-time sniper. By Douglas Valentine |
 Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
By Gary Berntsen |
 Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation
America's first war against Muslim terrorists! By Joshua E. London
Victory in Tripoli Website |
 Thieves of Baghdad
Marine Colonel lives the life of Indiana Jones in Iraq, tracking down priceless antiquities looted from the Iraq National Museum. By Matthew Bogdanos |
 One Bullet Away
"One Bullet Away can be recommended to anyone wanting a frontline description of this country's recent combat theaters and to anyone seeking a personal account of the contemporary Marine Corps. Marines are people, and Captain Fick puts proof of it on paper." By Nathaniel C. Fick |
 182 Days in Iraq
"Phil Kiver's real life, moment-to-moment journal of his assignment as an Army journalist in Iraq is honest, irreverent -- gripping and emotional one moment -- a howl the next. By Phil Kiver |
 Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
"Whip smart, sassy, with a mouth as foul as a sailor's, 28-year-old Sergeant Kayla Williams, who has served as an Arabic interpreter in the U.S. Army since late spring 2000, tells what it's like to be a female soldier in Iraq. By Kayla Williams |
 Down Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism
"In America's battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in the fight -- stealthy, effective, professional, and lethal. Here for the first time is a SEAL insider's battle history of these Special Operations warriors in the War on Terrorism. By Dick Couch |
 Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Gripping account of the rescue of 500 American and Allied POWs from behind Japanese lines on the Philippine island of Luzon during World War II. By Hampton Sides |
 Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War
This is the story of the Marine Corps in the major combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Written by Marine Corps Historian Col. Nicholas E. Reynolds |
 First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
By Gary Schroen |
 Among Warriors in Iraq: True Grit, Special Ops, and Lock-and-Load Raiding in Mosul and Fallujah, by Mike Tucker
"Join Big Hungry, Kentucky Rife, Serpico and Jedi Knight for a harrowing journey into the heart of the Iraqi insurgency." |
 Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
"The 3rd Battalion has a veteran sniper, Staff Sergeant Jack Coughlin, for whom the war in Iraq was only the latest of many wars. On the first day of battle at the Diyala Bridge, he had eleven kills." |
 Iraq: Providing Hope
"Amazing personal accounts that tell the inside story of what America has been doing in Iraq. It seems the daily headline are always negative; in this book the stories are filled with sacrifices, courage and charity." |
 McCoy's Marines
They were the soldiers who pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein -- the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, led by Lt. Col. Bryan P. McCoy (radio call sign: Darkside). And this is the story of their war, seen from the inside by the reporter they called Paperboy. |
 Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda, By Sean Naylor
At dawn on March 2, 2002, America's first major battle of the 21st century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley - and into the mouth of a buzz saw. |
 Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces, By Linda Robinson
Robinson follows the Special Forces from their first post-Vietnam combat in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalia, and the Balkans to their recent trials and triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
 Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operations in the 9/11 World, by William Arkin
From "Able Ally" to "Zodiac Beauchamp," this book identifies more than 3,000 code names and details the plans and missions for which they stand. |
 Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, by George Crile
From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary story of the largest and most successful CIA operation in history -- the arming of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. |
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