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24 books recommended for fans of WAR by Sebastian Junger, tied together by themes of Military and Biography & Autobiography.

Military Biography & Autobiography

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with WAR — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Tenth Army Commander The World War II Diary of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr

Simon Bolivar Buckner

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Southern Soldier Boy The Experiences of a Confederate Soldier of the 56th North Carolina Regiment During the American Civil War

James Carson

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

William T. Sherman A Biography

Robert P. Broadwater

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Sara Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

Sakine Cansiz

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Warrior The Legend Of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen

Peter Hathaway Capstick

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Lieutenant General James Longstreet Innovative Military Strategist : the Most Misunderstood Civil War General

F. Gregory Toretta

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Sea Stories My Life in Special Operations

Admiral William H. McRaven

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

A House in the Mountains The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#10

Racing the Clock Running Across a Lifetime

Bernd Heinrich

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#11

Rush Bearing An Account Of The Old Custom Of Strewing Rushes, Carrying Rushes To The Church, The Rush Cart, Garlands In Churches, Morris Dancers, The Wake, The Rush (1891)

Alfred Burton

Themes: Military

#12

Uncultured A Memoir

Daniella Mestyanek Young

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#13

The Making of a Miracle The Untold Story of the Captain of the 1980 Gold Medal-winning US Olympic Hockey Team

Mike Eruzione

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#14

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Emory M. Thomas

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#15

Enigma in Many Keys The Life and Letters of a WWII Intelligence Officer

Robert Button

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#16

The Revolutionary Paul Revere

Joel Miller

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#17

The Greatest Beer Run Ever A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War — John “Chick” Donohue

John "Chick" Donohue

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#18

None Came Home The War Dogs of Vietnam — John E. O’Donnell

John E. O'Donnell

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#19

The Invisible Front Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War

Yochi Dreazen

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#20

British Destroyers 1939–45 Wartime-built Classes

Angus Konstam

Themes: Military

#21

Submarine Torpedo Tactics An American History — Edward Monroe Jones

Themes: Military

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

#23

Ghosts of the Fireground Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of a Wildland Firefighter

Peter M. Leschak

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#24

The Last Emperor of Mexico The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

Edward Shawcross

Themes: Military • Biography & Autobiography

If WAR by Sebastian Junger is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Military, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Simon Bolivar Buckner, James Carson, Robert P. Broadwater, Sakine Cansiz, and others.