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Books like Check Ride

24 books recommended for fans of Check Ride by Thomas McGurn, tied together by themes of Vietnam War, Military Science, Wars & Conflicts, and Technology & Engineering.

Vietnam War Military Science Wars & Conflicts Technology & Engineering Military Biography & Autobiography History

Top related books to Check Ride

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Check Ride.

The Giant Killer American Hero, Mercenary, Spy … The Incredible True Story of the Smallest Man to Serve in the U.S. Military-Green Beret Captain Richard J. Flaherty — David A. Yuzuk

The Giant Killer American Hero, Mercenary, Spy … The Incredible True Story of the Smallest Man to Serve in the U.S. Military-Green Beret Captain Richard J. Flaherty

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Jumping from Helicopters A Vietnam Memoir — John Stillman

Jumping from Helicopters A Vietnam Memoir

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Courage Under Fire Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior — James B. Stockdale

Courage Under Fire Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior

James B. Stockdale

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Okay Okay Holy Shit Vietnam — Fred Krebsbach

Okay Okay Holy Shit Vietnam

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

A Soldier’s Story : Forever Changed An Infantryman’s Saga of Life and Death in Vietnam — Richard Hogue

A Soldier’s Story : Forever Changed An Infantryman’s Saga of Life and Death in Vietnam

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

After My Lai My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company — Gary W. Bray

After My Lai My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Through the Valley My Captivity in Vietnam — William Reeder Jr.

Through the Valley My Captivity in Vietnam

William Reeder Jr.

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Haulin’ Trash and Passin’ Gas Tactical Airlift and Aerial Refueling in Vietnam — Alan Gravel

Haulin’ Trash and Passin’ Gas Tactical Airlift and Aerial Refueling in Vietnam

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Reflections on Captivity A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW — Porter Halyburton

Reflections on Captivity A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW

Porter Halyburton

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

A Soldier’s Soldier A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly — Jeffrey Grey

A Soldier’s Soldier A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

The Ballad of Roy Benavidez The Life and Times of America’s Most Famous Hispanic War Hero — William Sturkey

The Ballad of Roy Benavidez The Life and Times of America’s Most Famous Hispanic War Hero

William Sturkey

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Dusterman — Joseph Michael Belardo

Joseph Michael Belardo

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

From Classrooms to Claymores A Teacher at War in Vietnam — Ches Schneider

From Classrooms to Claymores A Teacher at War in Vietnam

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Silent Spring – Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War — Patrick Hogan

Silent Spring – Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Vietnam Vanguard The 5th Battalion’s Approach to Counter-insurgency, 1966 — Ron Boxall

Vietnam Vanguard The 5th Battalion’s Approach to Counter-insurgency, 1966

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Grunts U.S. Infantry in Vietnam — Christopher J. Anderson

Grunts U.S. Infantry in Vietnam

Christopher J. Anderson

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Battle for Skyline Ridge The CIA Secret War in Laos — James E Parker

Battle for Skyline Ridge The CIA Secret War in Laos

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

An Army Afire How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era — Beth Bailey

An Army Afire How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

The SVD Dragunov Rifle — Chris McNab

The SVD Dragunov Rifle

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Secrets and Lies in Vietnam Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam Wars — Panagiotis Dimitrakis

Secrets and Lies in Vietnam Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam Wars

Panagiotis Dimitrakis

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

A Shau Crucible of the Vietnam War — Jay Phillips

A Shau Crucible of the Vietnam War

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

V was for Victory Politics and American Culture During World War II — John Morton Blum

V was for Victory Politics and American Culture During World War II

John Morton Blum

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

Eagles Overhead The History of US Air Force Forward Air Controllers, from the Meuse-Argonne to Mosul — Matt Dietz

Eagles Overhead The History of US Air Force Forward Air Controllers, from the Meuse-Argonne to Mosul

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

F-16 Fighting Falcon — Bertie Simonds

F-16 Fighting Falcon

Themes: Vietnam War • Military Science • Wars & Conflicts

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Vietnam War, Military Science, Wars & Conflicts — the same threads that run through Check Ride by Thomas McGurn. Among the authors featured: David A. Yuzuk, John Stillman, James B. Stockdale, Fred Krebsbach, and others.

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