Biography & Autobiography - Military
Discover captivating military biography and autobiography books that honor heroes. Explore new biography books, top autobiographies, and the best books to read at our online bookstore.
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The Navigator's Letter: The True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them TogetherThe Navigator's Letter brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II, chronicling a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood, and love. One of the riskiest air raids of World War II occurred on...
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The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea PowerWinner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an idea--the concept of "Sea Power," a term first coined by Capt. A.T. Mahan and the core thread of his life's work. His central argument was that...
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The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team WarriorThis instant New York Times bestseller--"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the historic raid that led...
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The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team WarriorThis instant New York Times bestseller--"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the historic raid that led...
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The Other Trench: The WW1 Diary and Photos of a German OfficerA German officer's firsthand, day-by-day WWI diary - Unedited - Once Forgotten - Now RevealedAs featured by the BBC (TV, Radio & Online)In 1914, Lt. Alexander Pfeifer left behind his career, family, and future to serve as a company commander in one of the...
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The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII HeroMovingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage of Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier. For readers...
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of RevolutionThaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one...
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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."--Ron Chernow, author of Grant "Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else... Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone...
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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader's enjoyment of...
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The Pink MarineNOW A NETFLIX SERIES - BOOTSIn The Pink Marine, Greg Cope White's sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving memoir, he recounts how an insecure New Orleans weakling transforms into a Devil Dog Marine. A coming-of-age story set in the most unlikely place: boot camp.When Greg's...
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The Pink MarineIn The Pink Marine, Greg Cope White's sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving memoir, he recounts how an insecure New Orleans weakling transforms into a Devil Dog Marine. A coming-of-age story set in the most unlikely place: boot camp.When Greg's straight best friend Dale tells...
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The Raft: Three Men, 34 Days, and a Thousand Miles AdriftThe Raft, the subject of the 2014 movie Against the Sun (also known as Ghosts of the Pacific), recounts the harrowing adventures of three downed U.S. Navy airmen -- Harold Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich -- in the Pacific Ocean during World War...
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The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops SnipersThe Instant New York Times Bestseller by Co-Star of Fox's American Grit and Legendary Ranger Nicholas Irving.Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills,...
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The Road to Unafraid: How the Army's Top Ranger Faced Fear and Found Courage ThroughJeff Struecker, a "Black Hawk Down" hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As readers go...
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi CommandoIn the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II--Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur--and his daring...
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The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to IraqStirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson. "Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book"--The Washington Examiner Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of...
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World"For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre's superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life."--The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and...
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The Star of Africa: The Complete Story of Hans-Joachim Marseille as Told by Those Who Knew Him and Those He FoughtThe Star of Africa plunges you into the blistering cockpit of Hans-Joachim Marseille, the Luftwaffe's most dazzling maverick. Against the backdrop of North Africa's sun-scorched skies, Marseille carved his legend: 158 confirmed victories; a string of near-impossible dogfights won by instinct and raw courage;...
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The Starfish ChroniclesWhat if healing isn't about fixing what's broken -but remembering who you are?The Starfish Chronicles is a memoir about reclaiming voice, reconnecting with the Warrior Woman Spirit, and learning to follow the quiet glimmers that lead us home.Spanning landscapes from African Savannahs to America's...
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The Storm of SteelOne of the great war memoirs, a worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism. It illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war,...
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