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War On Terror Books
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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 — 38,935 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 — 19,507 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 — 58,960 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 — 102,593 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 — 21,008 ratings — published 2004
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 — 4,673 ratings — published 2008
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,612 ratings — published 2016
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 — 4,643 ratings — published 2018
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 — 13,460 ratings — published 2012
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.03 — 143,163 ratings — published 2012
The Forever War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,621 ratings — published 2008
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,058 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 — 6,887 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 — 4,351 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 — 4,696 ratings — published 2012
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,571 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 — 2,963 ratings — published 2011
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.60 — 9,521 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 — 44,773 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 4.15 — 8,755 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 — 5,590 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 — 2,257 ratings — published 2016
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,497 ratings — published 2007
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,511 ratings — published 2012
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,846 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 — 4,887 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 — 26,099 ratings — published 2014
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,177 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 — 924 ratings — published 2011
The Good Soldiers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,776 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 — 2,320 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 — 13,269 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 — 6,178 ratings — published 2012
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,773 ratings — published 2006
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,325 ratings — published 2009
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,124 ratings — published 1999
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 — 4,022 ratings — published 2013
Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,231 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 — 4,657 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 — 4,134 ratings — published 2011
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 — 5,895 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 — 11,996 ratings — published 2005
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,661 ratings — published 2024
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 — 6,891 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 — 22,909 ratings — published 2012
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,520 ratings — published 2012
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-on-terror)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,577 ratings — published 2004
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 — 1,052 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 — 3,303 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
“Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.”
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“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s
1984
and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface.
Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars.”
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Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars.”
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