List of United States military books

Books about the U.S. military or for members of the military.

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General

• Classified Secret-Controlling Air Strikes in the Clandestine War in Laos by Jan Churchill
• Code Name Bright Light-US POW Rescue Efforts in the Vietnam War by George J. Veith
• 10,000 Days Of Thunder- A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo
• Fast Movers-Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience by John Darrell Sherwood
• In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by (Former Secretary of Defense) Robert S. McNamara
• Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88 by Harold Wise
• One Shot, One Kill- American Combat Snipers: WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Beirut by Charles W. Sasser/Craig Roberts
• Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military by Oxford University Press
• Pathfinder: First In, Last Out by Richard R. Burns
• REQUIEM: By The Photographers Who Died In Vietnam and Indochina by Random House
• The Secret War Against Hanoi-Kennedy's and Johnson's use of spies, Saboteurs, and covert warriors in North Vietnam by Richard H. Shultz Jr.
• Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed Of Its Heroes And Its History by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley
• Vietnam Firebases, 1965-1973 by Randy E. M. Foster
• Vietnam Order of Battle by Shelby L. Stanton
• Where We Were In Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide To The Firebases, Military Installations, and Naval Vessels Of The Vietnam War, 1945-1975 by Michael P. Kelley

Army

• A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
• Acceptable Loss-Fighting in Vietnam by Kregg P. Jorgenson
• American Warrior: A Combat Memoir Of Vietnam by John "Doc" Bahansen Jr.
• A Soldier Reports by GEN William C. Westmoreland
• A Hundred Miles of Bad Road by D. W. Birdwell & K. W. Nolan
• The Army and Vietnam by Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
• Battle For Hue, Tet 1968 by Keith Nolan
• Bell UH-1 Huey "Slicks" 1962-75 by Chris Bishop
• Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
• Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
• Death In The A-Shau Valley, L Company LRRP's Vietnam, 1969-1970 by Larry Chambers
• Death Valley, Summer Offensive, August 1968 by K. W. Nolan
• Dispatches by Michael Herr
• Doc: Platoon Medic by Daniel E. Evans Jr.
• Dustoff-The Memoir of an Army Aviator by Michael J. Novosel
• Eyes Behind The Lines-L Company Rangers in Vietnam 1968 by Gary A. Linderer
• Gunslingers In Action, Cobra-Vietnam by Lou Drendel
• Hamburger Hill, The Brutal Battle For Dong Ap Bia, May 11–20, 1969 by Samuel Zaffiri
• House To House-Playing The Enemy's Game, Saigon, May 1968 by Keith W. Nolan
• If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
• In Pharaoh's Army: Memoirs of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff
• Into Laos, The Story of Lam Son 719/Dewey Canyon II, 1971 by Keith W. Nolan
• The Killing Zone- My Life In The Vietnam War by Frederick Downs
• Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
• Mounted Combat In Vietnam by GEN Donn A. Starry
• Recondo: LRRP's In Vietnam by Larry Chambers
• Ringed in Steel: Armored Cavalry, Vietnam 1967-1968 by Michael D. Mahler
• RIPCORD(Firebase), Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970 by K. W. Nolan
• Rolling Thunder, In A Gentle Land by Andrew Wiest
• Sappers in the Wire - The Life and Death of FIREBASE MARY ANN by Keith W. Nolan
• Snake Pilot: Flying The Cobra Attack Helicopter In Vietnam by Randy R. Zahn
• Six Silent Men- LRRP's In Vietnam by Kenn Miller
• SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos by John Plaster
• Tanks in the Wire! - The First Use Of Enemy Armor In Vietnam by David B. Stockwell
• The 13th Valley, by John M. DelVecchio
• Tank Sergeant-1/69th Armor, Vietnam by Ralph Zumbro
• They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 by David Maraniss
• Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Time by Lewis Sorley
• To The Limit- An Air Cavalry Pilot In The Vietnam War by Tom A. Johnson
• The Tunnels Of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold
• Through The Valley, Vietnam, 1967-1968 by James F. Humphries
• US Army AH-1 Cobra Units in Vietnam by Johnathon Bernstein
• US Infantry, Vietnam by Jim Mesko
• Vietnam Choppers, Helicopters In Battle 1950-1975 by Simon Dunstan
• Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics by Bruce B. G. Clarke
• Westmoreland: A Biography of General William Westmoreland by Samuel Zaffiri
• "We Served In Silence" by author Glenn K. Fannin Jr. A Vietnam war novel relating the activities of the Army Security Agency. Recently categorized as Unclassified by the NSA.
• We Were Soldiers Once… And Young: Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam by LTG Harold G. Moore

Navy

• A-6 Intruders In Vietnam by Jesse Randall
• AD Skyraider-In Detail & Scale by Bert Kinzey
• The Bluejacket's Manual by Thomas J. Cutler
• Brown Water, Black Berets-Coastal and Riverine Warfare In Vietnam by Thomas J. Cutler LCDR USN
• Confession To A Deaf God- Memoir Of A Mekong River Rat by Gary R. Blinn
• Crusader! Last of the Gunfighters by Rear Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist
• Douglas A-1 Skyraider-Warbird Tech V13-Revised by Larry Davis
• Douglas A-1 Skyraider by Robert F. Dorr
• Douglas A-4 Skyhawk by Peter Kilduff
• F-8 Crusader In Detail & Scale by Bert Kinzey
• F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War by Peter Mersky
• F-8 Crusader In Action by Jim Sullivan
• First SEAL, by Lieutenant Commander Roy Boehm & Charles Sasser
• Fox Two- The Story Of America's First Ace In Vietnam by R. Cunningham/Jeffrey Ethell
• Gray Ghosts-US Navy and Marine Corps Phantoms by Peter E. Davies
• In the Shadow of Greatness by USNA Class of 2002
• Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88 by Harold Wise
• Launch The Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron In The Vietnam War 1972 by Carol Reardon
• McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk By Brad Elward
• One Perfect Op: An Insider's Account of the Navy SEAL Special Warfare Teams, by Master Chief Dennis "Snake" Chalker & Kevin Dockery
• On Yankee Station- The Naval Air War Over Vietnam by CDR John B. Nichols
• Point Man, by Chief James "Patches" Watson & Kevin Dockery
• The Real Team, By Commander Richard Marcinko & ten SEAL Team 6 veterans
• Riverine- A Pictorial History of the Brown Water War In Vietnam by Jim Mesko
• River Rats by Ralph Christopher
• Rogue Warrior, by Commander Richard Marcinko & John Weisman
• Stop and Search - A novel of small boat warfare off Vietnam (1969) by W. E. Butterworth
• Swift Boat Down-The Real Story Of The Sinking Of PCF-19 by James Steffes, ENC Retired
• The Vietnam Brown Water Navy 1965-1969 by Gordon L. Rottman
• Topgun Days by Dave "Bio" Baranek
• Tour of Duty- (Senator) John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley
• Vietnam-The Naval Story by Frank Uhlig Jr.
• US Navy F-4 Phantom II MIG KILLERS 1972-1973 by Brad Elward/Peter E. Davies
• US Small Combatants-From PT Boats to the Brown Water Navy by Norman Friedman
• War On The Rivers-A Swift Boat Sailor's Chronicle Of The Battle For The Mekong Delta by Weymouth D. Symmes

Marine Corps

• A Sniper In The Arizona, 2/5th Marines in the Arizona Territory 1967 by John J. Culbertson
• Ambush Valley: I Corps Vietnam 1967-A Marine Battalion's Battle For Survival by Eric Hammel
• 13 Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam by John Culbertson
• Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War by N.E. Reynolds
• Battle Cry, by Leon Uris
• Bloody Tarawa by Eric Hammel and John E. Lane
• Boot by Daniel Da Cruz
• Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
• Breakout by Martin Russ
• The Bridge at Dong Ha by John Grider Miller
• Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC by Jon T. Hoffman
• Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines by David H. Freedman
• Dauntless Marine - Joseph Sailer Jr., Dive Bombing Ace of Guadalcanal by Alexander S. White
• Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam - Joseph T. Ward
• Devilbirds by John A. De Chant
• Dog Company Six by Edwin Howard Simmons
• Expendable Warriors: The Battle For Khe Sanh by Bruce B. G. Clarke
• Fields of Fire by James Webb
• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by Victor H.Krulak
• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
• Flying Leathernecks by Richard G. Hubler & John A. De Chant
• Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. by Lewis Puller Jr.
• Generation Kill by Evan Wright
• Gray Ghosts - US Navy and Marine Corps Phantoms by Peter E. Davies
• Guadalcanal - The Definitive Account of the Landmark battle by Richard B. Frank
• Guidebook for Marines, by the staff of the Marine Corps Association
• HOGs in the Shadows - Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq by Milo S. Afong
• History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II by Robert Sherrod
• Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth/Charles W. Sassar
• Hold High the Torch - A History of the 4th Marines by Kenneth W. Conduit & Edwin T. Turnbladh
• "I'm Staying with My Boys..." The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC by Jim Proser
• In the Shadow of Greatness by USNA Class of 2002
• Images of America - Camp Pendleton by Thomas O'Hara
• Iwo Jima - Portraits of a Battle by Eric Hammel
• Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford
• The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh 1968 by Ellen Emerson White
• Making the Corps, by Thomas E. Ricks
• Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit by Tom Clancy
• Marine Fighting Squadron Nine (VF-9M) by Jess C. Barrow
• Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps by Wesley Fox
• The Marine Officer's Guide by Kenneth W. Estes
• Marine Sniper - 93 Confirmed Kills-Carlos Hathcock, Vietnam by Charles W. Henderson
• Mongoose in the Sand by Ron Godby
• No Bended Knee : The Battle for Guadalcanal by Merrill B. Twining, Neil G. Carey (Editor)
• No True Glory: a Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah, by Bing West
• One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick
• Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ by Keith William Nolan
• Operation Tuscaloosa-2/5th Marines at An Hon, 1967 by John J. Culbertson
• Phase Line GREEN, The Battle For Hue, 1968 by Nicholas Warr
• A Rumor Of War-Marines In Vietnam by Philip Caputo
• Semper Fi in the Sky - The Marine Air Battles of World War II by Gerald Astor
• Semper Fidelis - The History of the United States Marine Corps by Allan Millett
• Semper Fi: Vietnam by Edward F. Murphy
• Stay off the Skyline - The Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa by Laura Homan Lacey
• The Highway War - A Marine Company Commander in Iraq by Seth Folsom
• The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith & Bing West
• The U.S. Marine Corps Story by J. Robert Moskin
• The U.S. Marine Corps: An Illustrated History by Merrill L. Bartlett
• The Village by Bing West
• Uncommon Men: The Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps by Alfred M. Gray
• United States Marine Corps Air Stations of World War II by M.L. Shettle
• United States Marine Corps Aviation Squadron Lineage, Insignia and History Volume 1 by Michael J. Crowler
• U.S. Marine Corps Aviation - 1912 to Present by Peter Mersky
• U.S. Marine Corps Aviation Unit Insignia 1941 - 1946 by Jeff Millstein
• USMC: A Complete History by Jon T. Hoffman
• US Marines In Vietnam 1965-1973 by Charles D. Melson
• US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-1970 Vietnam by Oscar Gilbert
• The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam by Charles W. Sasser/Craig Roberts
• The War That Would Not End-US Marines In Vietnam by Charles D. Melson
• Warlord - No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy - Ilario Pantano
• Warrior Culture of the U.S. Marines by Marion F. Sturkey
• We Were One - Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell
• With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge

Air Force

• Aces and Aerial Victories-USAF In Southeast Asia 1965-1973 by R. Frank Futrell
• Air War Hanoi by Robert F. Dorr
• A Code To Keep by Ernie Brace
• And Kill Migs by Lou Drendel
• Bury Us Upside Down- The Misty Pilots And The Secret Battle For The Ho Chi Minh Trail by Rick Newman
• Clashes-Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972 by Marshall L. Michel
• Code Of Honor by Lt Col John A. Dramesi
• Check Six- A Fighter Pilot Looks Back by Maj Gen F. C. Blesse
• Convair F-102 Delta Dagger-A Photo Chronicle by Wayne Mutza
• Development and Employment of Fixed-wing Gunships 1962-1972 by Frederick Shaw/Timothy Warnock
• The Eleven Days of Christmas: America's Last Vietnam Battle (B-52's Maximum Effort) by Marshall L. Michael
• First In, Last Out: Stories By The Wild Weasels In Vietnam by Edward T. Rock
• F-4C, F-4D, & RF-4C Phantom II In Detail & Scale by Bert Kinzey
• F-100 Super Sabre: In Action by Larry Davis
• F-105 Thunderchief: Walk Around by Ken Neubeck
• F-105 Thunderchief: In Action by Ken Neubeck
• Hit My Smoke! Forward Air Controllers in Southeast Asia by Jan Churchill
• Journey Into Darkness-The Story of a (F-104) Starfighter Pilot in Vietnam by Col Philip E. Smith/Peggy Herz
• The Linebacker Raids-The Bombing of North Vietnam, 1972 by John T. Smith
• Linebacker II - A Strategic and Tactical Case Study by Lt Col Leonard D. G. Teixeira
• Lockheed F-104 Starfighter by Jim Upton
• Lockheed F-104 Starfighter by Martin Bowman
• Lockheed SR-71-The Secret Missions Exposed by Paul F. Crickmore
• Lockheed's SR-71 "BlackBird" Family, A-12, F-12, D-21, SR-71 by James C. Goodall
• Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird by Steve Pace
• Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady by Dennis Jenkins
• The Lovable One-Niner- A Complete History of the Cessna L-19 Bird Dog by Minard D. Thompson
• McDonnell Douglas F-4 Gun Nosed Phantoms by Kris Hughes, Walter Dranem
• Magic 100- An F-105 Fighter Pilot's 100 Combat Missions In Vietnam by Brig Gen Al Lenski
• Martin B-57 Canberra- The Complete Record by Robert C. Mikesh
• McDonnell F-101 Voodoo by Robert F. Dorr
• 100 Missions North by Kenneth H. Bell
• North American F-100 Super Sabre by Peter E. Davies
• North American F-100 Supersabre by David A. Anderton
• Once a Fighter Pilot by Brig Gen Jerry W. Cook
• One Day Too Long-Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam by Timothy N. Castle
• One Day in a Long War. May 10, 1972, Air War, North Vietnam by Jeffrey Ethell
• Over The Beach-The Air War In Vietnam by Zalin Grant
• Palace Cobra-A Fighter Pilot In The Vietnam Air War by Ed Rasimus
• Pak Six-A Story of the War in the Skies of North Vietnam by Gene I. Basel
• The Phantom Story by Anthony M. Thornborough and Peter E. Davies
• The Rescue of BAT-21 by Darrel D. Whitcomb
• Republic F-105 Thunderchief by David Anderton
• Republic F-105 Thunderchief by Larry Davis/David Menard
• Rolling Thunder by John T. Smith
• Roll Call: Thud-A photographic Record of the F-105 Thunderchief by J. M. Campbell/M. Hill
• SAC Tanker Operations in the Southeast Asia War by Charles K. Hopkins
• SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales, and Legends by Rich Graham
• SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story by Rich Graham
• Thunderchief: The Right Stuff and How Fighter Pilots Get It by Don Henry
• Thud Ridge- F-105 Thunderchief Missions Over Vietnam by Jack Broughton
• USAF F-4 Phantom II MIG KILLERS 1965-1968 by Peter E. Davies
• Walk Around: SR-71 Blackbird by James C. Goodall
• When Thunder Rolled-An F-105 Pilot Over North Vietnam by Ed Rasimus
• Wild Weasel- The SAM Suppression Story by Larry Davis
• Wolfpack-Hunting MiG's Over North Vietnam by Jerry Scutts
• War For The Hell Of It: A Fighter Pilot's View Of Vietnam by Ed Cobleigh
• Yeager: An Autobiography by Brig Gen Chuck Yeager