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Across Military and Biography & Autobiography — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as River Rats by Ralph Christopher.

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Good Old Somersets The 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry August-December 1914

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

My Vietnam 1965 — Ronald L Tottingham

My Vietnam 1965 — Ronald L Tottingham

Ronald L. Tottingham

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Too Useful to Sacrifice Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam — Steven R. Stotelmyer

Too Useful to Sacrifice Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam

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Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

The U.S. Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations World War I to the Vietnam War — Kathryn Roe Coker

The U.S. Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations World War I to the Vietnam War

Kathryn Roe Coker

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Good Medicine, Hard Times Memoir of a Combat Physician in Iraq — Edward P. Horvath

Good Medicine, Hard Times Memoir of a Combat Physician in Iraq

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Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Task Force Hogan The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe — William R. Hogan

Task Force Hogan The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe

William R. Hogan

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

In Custer’s Shadow Major Marcus Reno — Ronald Hamilton Nichols

In Custer’s Shadow Major Marcus Reno

Ronald Hamilton Nichols

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Enigma of General Blaskowitz — Richard John Giziowski

The Enigma of General Blaskowitz

Richard John Giziowski

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Pershing Commander of the Great War — John Perry

Pershing Commander of the Great War

Themes: 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: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Farewell to Spandau — Tony Le Tissier

Farewell to Spandau

Tony Le Tissier

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Four Years’ Service In India (1853) — John Ryder

Four Years’ Service In India (1853)

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Bullet Proof — Matt Croucher

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Ordinary? Or Not! — Frederick John Goodwin

Ordinary? Or Not!

Frederick John Goodwin

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Outpost The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War — Jake Tapper

The Outpost The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Five Up A Chronicle of Five Lives — Laddie Lucas

Five Up A Chronicle of Five Lives

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Boy Colonel of the Confederacy The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. — Archie K. Davis

Boy Colonel of the Confederacy The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.

Archie K. Davis

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Discovery Of A Lost Trail (1900) — Charles Benjamin Newcomb

Discovery Of A Lost Trail (1900)

Charles Benjamin Newcomb

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Art of Resistance My Four Years in the French Underground — Justus Rosenberg

The Art of Resistance My Four Years in the French Underground

Justus Rosenberg

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Boy With Only One Shoe An Illustrated Memoir of Wartime Life with Bomber Command — John Henry Meller

The Boy With Only One Shoe An Illustrated Memoir of Wartime Life with Bomber Command

John Henry Meller

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

12 Strong The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers — Doug Stanton

12 Strong The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

A Blue Bellied Yankee A Runaway 17 – Year- Old Boy Joins the Union Army — Robert M. Miller

A Blue Bellied Yankee A Runaway 17 – Year- Old Boy Joins the Union Army

Robert M. Miller

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Brother of Mine The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie — Thomas Christie

Brother of Mine The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie

Thomas Christie

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Cochrane The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain — Robert Harvey

Cochrane The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain — Robert Harvey

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

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