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Special Operations Books
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Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,296 ratings — published 2004
Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,473 ratings — published 2007
Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.20 — 869 ratings — published 1996
Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,171 ratings — published 2006
Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,031 ratings — published 2012
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,134 ratings — published 2013
Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,567 ratings — published 2011
Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces (Commanders)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,644 ratings — published 2001
The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,197 ratings — published 2004
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,086 ratings — published 1999
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,458 ratings — published 2015
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,883 ratings — published 2019
First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.84 — 463 ratings — published 2014
Men in Green Faces: A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,758 ratings — published 1992
Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,885 ratings — published
Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.74 — 619 ratings — published 2001
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,687 ratings — published 2002
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,103 ratings — published 2008
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,647 ratings — published 2010
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,747 ratings — published 2009
Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe Publication Order, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.22 — 78,026 ratings — published 1993
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.34 — 102,500 ratings — published 2006
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,847 ratings — published 2005
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,845 ratings — published 2025
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,260 ratings — published 2020
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.04 — 58,921 ratings — published 2012
Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,237 ratings — published 2022
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,605 ratings — published 2019
The Jedburghs: France, 1944, and the Secret Untold History of the First Special Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.97 — 274 ratings — published 2005
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,231 ratings — published
SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,253 ratings — published 1997
My Share of the Task: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,131 ratings — published 2013
Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America's Elite Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.90 — 694 ratings — published 2012
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,129 ratings — published 2008
Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,844 ratings — published 2006
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,586 ratings — published 2011
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,454 ratings — published 2011
Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,813 ratings — published
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,176 ratings — published 2012
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,696 ratings — published 1986
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,489 ratings — published 2004
The Green Berets: The Amazing Story of the U. S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.00 — 904 ratings — published 1965
The Complete History of the SAS: The Full Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Elite Fighting Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 64 ratings — published 2004
Special Reconnaissance and Advanced Small Unit Patrolling: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for Special Operations Forces (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.57 — 21 ratings — published
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,392 ratings — published 2014
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.42 — 13,230 ratings — published 2017
The Crossroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,471 ratings — published 2013
Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.21 — 173 ratings — published 2006
Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.60 — 648 ratings — published 2004
By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 502 ratings — published 2023
“First, never let your opponent figure out what you’re doing—deception at all times. Second, always leave yourself a way out.”
― The Gathering Elements
― The Gathering Elements
“But inevitably, after all the hardware questions had been answered, Breen would circle down to the question he’d really wanted to ask: What’s it like to blow some unsuspecting raghead’s shit away from a thousand yards? Carl always answered the same way: I tried not to think about that side of it, sir. It was a job, and I focused on the mechanics of it. Guys like Ray Breen never grasped the true nature of sniping. It was as much about concealment as it was about shooting.”
― Third Degree
― Third Degree
