Biography & Autobiography - Military

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Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold...

Nicholas Irving

From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful audiobook on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016

Heart of a Warrior

Robert Jones

Robert Jones, a highly decorated war hero, earned four Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star as a Special Operations Sniper. He not only lived though combat—he thrived on it. The worst day of his life was being told he couldn't return to ...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2013

American Warlords: How Roosevelt's Hi...

Jonathan W. Jordan

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan W. Jordan—author of Brothers, Rivals, Victors—comes the intimate true story of President Franklin Roosevelt's inner circle of military leadership, the team of rivals who shaped World...

Paperback
Published: May 2016

Storm of Steel

Ernst Junger

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, bu...

Paperback
Published: May 2004

From Fright to Fight to Farm: A Journ...

Ernest Kaufman

This author's "Journey of Survival" began in Germany, where he was expelled from school at age 15 because he was Jewish, shattering his dreams of becoming a veterinarian, and where, for the same reason, at age 18 he was inca...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2016

Undersea Warrior: The World War II St...

Don Keith

No man above or below the waves was as admired--or feared--as this determined naval commander... Among submariners in World War II, Dudley "Mush" Morton stood out as a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he co...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2012

Never Call Me a Hero: An Autobiograph...

N. Jack Kleiss

National Bestseller• "An instant classic." —Dallas Morning NewsOn the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD ...

Paperback
Published: May 2018

American Sniper [Movie Tie-in Edition...

Chris Kyle

Now a major motion pictureFrom 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and ste...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2014

The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE ...

Kevin Lacz

"One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq," (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2017

The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE ...

Kevin Lacz

The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three, the warrior elite of the Navy. This legendary...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2016

Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, ...

Ray Lambert

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day--read the astonishing true story celebrated by Tom Brokaw, CBS This Morning, NPR, and the President. Seventy-five years ago, he hit ...

Paperback
Published: May 2020

Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refu...

Eric Lichtblau

The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis’ rise to power....

Paperback
Published: Oct 2020

Great Captains Unveiled

Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Great Captains Unveiled incisively examines the brilliant military careers and intriguing personalities of six masters of the battlefield: Jenghiz Khan (1167?–1227) and Sabutai (1172?–1245), who led their Mongol cavalry into the h...

Paperback
Published: Mar 1996

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The ...

Paul Douglas Lockhart

The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating fi...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2010

The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The...

Callum MacDonald

If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942)—chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechosl...

Paperback
Published: Aug 1998

Battleground Pacific: A Marine Riflem...

Sterling Mace

A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MILITARY MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WORLD WAR II'S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and hi...

Paperback
Published: May 2013

What They Don't Teach You in Deer Riv...

Julia a. Maki

I grew up in Deer River, MN - a one-stoplight town of 903 people. Two weeks after I graduated high school way back in the old days (1997) when everything was in black and white, I enlisted in the Navy in a combat aircrew position tha...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2015

Goering: The Rise and Fall of the Not...

Roger Manvell

A revealing portrait of a notorious Nazi henchman, the head of Germany's Luftwaffe.In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use first-hand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2011

Rogue Warrior

Richard Marcinko

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret m...

Paperback
Published: Mar 1993

What It Is Like To Go To War

Karl Marlantes

#3 on Amazon.com's 10 Best Books of 2011BRIThe New Yorker Favorite Books from 2011BRHudson Booksellers Best Books of 2011BRBarnes Noble Best Nonfiction Books of 2011BRISt. Louis Post Dispatch Favorite Books of 2011BRA IShelf Awarenes...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2012

Lucky Penny's Tail

Gregory J. Matenkoski

"Lucky Penny's Tail is a gripping, vivid, first person account. Great and fascinating in detail, the book reads as if one is watching an old war movie." ...

Paperback
Published: May 2011

Through My Mother's Eyes: The Story o...

Michael McCoy

Jean-Marie Faggiano and her family were living in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The following month, she and her family, along with over 3,600 other non-national civilians, were forced to surrende...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2015

Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Riflema...

Jim McEnery

n what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettably imme...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2012

Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from t...

Scott McEwen

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the dead...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2015

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Opera...

William H. McRaven

Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of adventure during his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of Am...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2019

The Lost Airman: A True Story of Esca...

Seth Meyerowitz

For fans of Unbroken, the remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months bef...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2016

The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's E...

Craig M. Mullaney

A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2009

81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Su...

Brian Murphy

Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one—Leo...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2016

WWII Pilot, Betrayal, Then Congressio...

Sonya Nesch

Jean Landis flew for the Army Air Force in WWII, as a WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilot). She delivered P-51 Mustangs from Long Beach, California to Newark, New Jersey where they were loaded onto Liberty Ships headed for the Europe...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2019

By Honor Bound: Two Navy SEALs, the M...

Tom Norris

In April of 1972, SEAL Lieutenant Tom Norris risked his life in an unprecedented ground rescue of two American airmen who were shot down behind enemy lines in North Vietnam, a feat for which he would be awarded the Medal of Honor--an ...

Paperback
Published: May 2017
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