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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,971 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,764 ratings — published 2004
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.04 — 59,424 ratings — published 2012
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.34 — 103,358 ratings — published 2006
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,239 ratings — published 2004
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 24 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,813 ratings — published 2016
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,696 ratings — published 2008
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,728 ratings — published 2018
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.03 — 144,107 ratings — published 2012
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,601 ratings — published 2012
The Forever War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,714 ratings — published 2008
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,112 ratings — published 2006
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,999 ratings — published 2021
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad (Audio)
by (shelved 16 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,755 ratings — published 2012
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,463 ratings — published 2014
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,745 ratings — published 2010
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,009 ratings — published 2011
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,725 ratings — published 2016
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.10 — 45,423 ratings — published 2009
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,823 ratings — published 2009
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,630 ratings — published 2011
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,274 ratings — published 2016
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,800 ratings — published 2006
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,964 ratings — published 2006
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,930 ratings — published 2000
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,360 ratings — published 2021
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,390 ratings — published 2014
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,539 ratings — published 2007
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,555 ratings — published 2012
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,199 ratings — published 2012
The Longest War: A History of the War on Terror and the Battles with Al Qaeda Since 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.97 — 930 ratings — published 2011
The Good Soldiers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,816 ratings — published 2009
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,339 ratings — published 2009
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,871 ratings — published 2024
Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,242 ratings — published 2012
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,622 ratings — published 1999
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.42 — 13,520 ratings — published 2017
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,046 ratings — published 2013
Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,318 ratings — published 2015
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,213 ratings — published 2011
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,596 ratings — published 2004
Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,918 ratings — published 2004
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,093 ratings — published 2005
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,030 ratings — published 2019
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,701 ratings — published 2010
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,562 ratings — published 2012
To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,066 ratings — published 2020
Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,338 ratings — published 2005
Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.17 — 789 ratings — published 2017
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,835 ratings — published 2014
“The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?”
― A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
― A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.”
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