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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 143,341 ratings — published 1992
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,340,881 ratings — published 1947
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,288 ratings — published 1981
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,976 ratings — published 2010
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 16,750 ratings — published 1977
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,681 ratings — published 1977
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,545 ratings — published 1999
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 599,903 ratings — published -500
Flags of Our Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 64,194 ratings — published 2000
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,618 ratings — published 2004
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 22,219 ratings — published 2016
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,454 ratings — published 1983
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 103,250 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 40,916 ratings — published 2001
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,406,418 ratings — published 1956
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,953 ratings — published 1991
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,223 ratings — published 1999
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,190 ratings — published 2003
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,292 ratings — published 2015
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,464 ratings — published 2012
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,787 ratings — published 2011
The Forgotten Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,473 ratings — published 1967
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,612 ratings — published 2016
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 452 ratings — published 2016
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,596 ratings — published 2008
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,377 ratings — published
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,988 ratings — published 2025
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,570 ratings — published 2012
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 258,048 ratings — published 2005
Topgun: An American Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,208 ratings — published 2019
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,127 ratings — published 1957
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,190 ratings — published 2020
Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 750 ratings — published
No Ordinary Dog: My Partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden Raid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.54 — 3,483 ratings — published 2020
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,711 ratings — published 2018
Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 749 ratings — published 2014
The Crossroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,490 ratings — published 2013
The Chosen Few: One US Army Company's Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 932 ratings — published 2016
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 20,859 ratings — published 2006
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 28,744 ratings — published 2012
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,176 ratings — published 1997
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,344 ratings — published 1998
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,513 ratings — published 2024
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,436 ratings — published 2013
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,691 ratings — published 2016
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,801 ratings — published 1988
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.57 — 23,166 ratings — published 2012
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,802 ratings — published 2004
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,642 ratings — published 1970
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,300 ratings — published 1973