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24 titles for readers of Behind Bamboo by Rohan Rivett, selected for shared themes: Personal Memoirs, Military, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Places and Names On War, Revolution, and Returning — Elliot Ackerman

Places and Names On War, Revolution, and Returning

Elliot Ackerman

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

D-Day 60th Anniversary Normandy Landings : a 19-year-old’s Diary with Unique Photos — W. Brian Carter

D-Day 60th Anniversary Normandy Landings : a 19-year-old’s Diary with Unique Photos

W. Brian Carter

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Never Call Me a Hero A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway — N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss

Never Call Me a Hero A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway — N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss

N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

First They Killed My Father Movie Tie-in A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers — Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father Movie Tie-in A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Company C An AmericanS Life As a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army — Haim Watzman

Company C An AmericanS Life As a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant — Ulysses Simpson Grant

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Bloody Ridge and Beyond A World War II Marine’s Memoir of Edson’s Raiders in the Pacific — Marlin Groft

Bloody Ridge and Beyond A World War II Marine’s Memoir of Edson’s Raiders in the Pacific

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Life as a POW What My Father Never Told Me — Duncan John Pringle

Life as a POW What My Father Never Told Me

Duncan John Pringle

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Mein Kampf — Adolf Hitler

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Abigail and John Portrait of a Marriage — Edith Gelles

Abigail and John Portrait of a Marriage

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

You Are Worth It Building a Life Worth Fighting For — Kyle Carpenter

You Are Worth It Building a Life Worth Fighting For

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Island Fever Life Adventures in Search of Island Paradise — Charles Pflueger

Island Fever Life Adventures in Search of Island Paradise

Charles Pflueger

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Homage to Catalonia — George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Operation Dark Heart Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan — and The Path to Victory — Anthony Shaffer

Operation Dark Heart Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan — and The Path to Victory

Anthony Shaffer

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

I Didn’t Choose This Job, It Chose Me — Brian J Tally

I Didn’t Choose This Job, It Chose Me

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Warrior’s Life — Alfred de Vigny

The Warrior’s Life

Alfred De Vigny

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Another Day of Life — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Another Day of Life

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Five Years, Four Fronts A German Officer’s World War II Combat Memoir — Georg Grossjohann

Five Years, Four Fronts A German Officer’s World War II Combat Memoir

Georg Grossjohann

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Memoirs of a Kamikaze A World War II Pilot’s Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation — Kazuo・Odachi

Memoirs of a Kamikaze A World War II Pilot’s Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Moscow 1812 Napoleon’s Fatal March — Adam Zamoyski

Moscow 1812 Napoleon’s Fatal March

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Way Forward Master Life’s Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy — Robert O’Neill

The Way Forward Master Life’s Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy — Robert O’Neill

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

A Tiger among Us A Story of Valor in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley — Bennie G. Adkins

A Tiger among Us A Story of Valor in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley

Bennie G. Adkins

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

My War in the Jungle The Long-Delayed Memoir of a Marine Lieutenant in Vietnam 1968-69 — G. M. Davis

My War in the Jungle The Long-Delayed Memoir of a Marine Lieutenant in Vietnam 1968-69

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

13 Hours The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi — MItchell Zuckoff

13 Hours The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

Mitchell Zuckoff

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Personal Memoirs, Military, Biography & Autobiography — the same threads that run through Behind Bamboo by Rohan Rivett. Among the authors featured: Elliot Ackerman, W. Brian Carter, N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, Loung Ung, and others.

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