Biography: Historical

Sea Stories : My Life in Special Operations

Admiral William H. McRaven 2024
(4.5)

In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from...

Pathfinder : A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines

David Blakeley 2024
(4.5)

Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the...

American Sniper [Movie Tie-in Edition]

Chris Kyle 2024
(4.5)

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster m...

Viper Pilot : A Memoir of Air Combat

Dan Hampton 2024
(4.5)

151 combat missions 21 hard kills on surface-to-air-missile sites 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor 1 Purple Hea...

You Never Forget Your First

Alexis Coe 2024
(4.5)

"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's...

Outlaw Platoon

Sean Parnell 2024
(4.5)

A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s stunning personal account of the...

One Bullet Away

Nathaniel Fick 2024
(4.5)

If the Marines are ?the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins w...

Generation Kill

Evan Wright 2024
(4.5)

Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog.Read about the Penguin Group (USA) partnership with HBO in support of the G...

Black Hearts

Jim Frederick 2024
(4.5)

"Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can...

Where Men Win Glory

Jon Krakauer 2024
(4.5)

Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was...

Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall

Sandy Gall 2024
(4.5)

The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in...

The Volunteer

Jack Fairweather 2024
(4.5)

An outstanding achievement ... a harrowing tale, revealing the depths of human depravity, redeemed by the shining courag...

Too Much and Never Enough

Mary L. Trump 2024
(4.5)

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a train...

The House of Kennedy

James Patterson 2024
(4.5)

The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual fa...

The Truths We Hold

Kamala Harris 2024
(4.5)

A New York Times bestseller From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that un...

Zealot by Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan 2024
(4.5)

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers t...

Dreams from My Father

Barack Obama 2024
(4.5)

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My...

Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens 2024
(4.5)

Christopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol Colleg...

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung 2024
(4.5)

Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom...

The Secret Man

Bob Woodward 2024
(4.5)

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the...

The Ratline by Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands 2024
(4.5)

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundre...

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2024
(4.5)

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunda...

In Order to Live

Yeonmi Park 2024
(4.5)

'I am most grateful for two things- that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park w...