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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,304 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 42 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,617 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 — 59,164 ratings — published 2012
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.34 — 102,977 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 — 21,132 ratings — published 2004
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,706 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 23 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,679 ratings — published 2008
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,676 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 — 143,609 ratings — published 2012
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,537 ratings — published 2012
The Forever War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,655 ratings — published 2008
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,083 ratings — published 2006
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,939 ratings — published 2021
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 — 4,389 ratings — published 2014
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad (Audio)
by (shelved 15 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,713 ratings — published 2012
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,668 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 — 2,980 ratings — published 2011
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,610 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 — 45,090 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 — 8,790 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 — 5,607 ratings — published 2011
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,262 ratings — published 2016
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,529 ratings — published 2012
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,916 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 — 4,907 ratings — published 2000
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,247 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 — 8,510 ratings — published 2007
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,185 ratings — published 2012
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,781 ratings — published 2006
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 — 928 ratings — published 2011
The Good Soldiers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,795 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 — 2,334 ratings — published 2009
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,333 ratings — published 2021
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.42 — 13,387 ratings — published 2017
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 — 6,211 ratings — published 2012
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,390 ratings — published 1999
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,766 ratings — published 2024
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 — 4,027 ratings — published 2013
Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,274 ratings — published 2015
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,680 ratings — published 2010
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,166 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 — 2,591 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 — 5,902 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 — 12,047 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 4.32 — 6,959 ratings — published 2019
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.57 — 23,065 ratings — published 2012
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,539 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 4.29 — 1,062 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 — 3,321 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 — 782 ratings — published 2017
“Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?”
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“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.”
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