Infantry
Title: The Killer Angels
Author: Michael Shaara
Book Description:
The Killer Angels, first published in 1974, is a historical fiction novel about the Battle of Gettysburg fought in July 1863. It tells the story of the days leading up to the battle and the battle itself through the eyes of key combatants on both sides. The author, Michael Shaara, won a Pulitzer Prize for […]
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Title: Run to the Sound of the Guns
Author: Mir Bahmanyar, Nicholas Moore
Book Description:
From frozen mountaintops to dusty city streets and everything in between, Run to the Sound of the Guns is a compelling and deeply personal account of a husband and father who nearly lost his life ‘leading the way’ in America’s secretive global wars. Nicholas Moore served as part of an elite special operations unit at […]
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Title: Battle Cry
Author: Leon Uris
Book Description:
Battle Cry is a fictional novel set during World War II, focusing on the experiences of a group of U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater. The book follows the 6th Marine Regiment as they train, deploy, and fight through some of the war’s most challenging and pivotal battles, including Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. Uris, a […]
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Title: A Battle Won by Handshakes: The Story of Alpha Company 1/5
Author: Lucas A. Dyer
Book Description:
As a US Marine, Lucas A. Dyer engaged in combat with the Taliban in Afghanistan?s heroin capital of Helmand. He fought in the Battle of Khanjar while participating in Operation Enduring Freedom from May 2009 to December 2009. He was one of the four thousand Marines who fought under Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson as a […]
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Title: Grunts Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq
Author: John C. McManus
Book Description:
John C. McManus covers six decades of warfare in which the courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Based on years of archival research and personal interviews with veterans, Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in protecting the American nation, and advances a […]
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Title: House To House
Author: David Bellavia, John R Bruning
Book Description:
One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action and raw intensity of leading his Third Platoon, Alpha Company, into the lethally choreographed kill zone of booby-trapped, explosive-laden houses of Fallujah’s militant insurgents. Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, this stunning war […]
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