I need a recommendation for a War / Military Memoir. Audiobook preferred. #LitsyReadingChallenge
mrozzz A biography but still amazing. 6y
Unbroken
Reecaspieces 6y
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
AmberWB I second 6y
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
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WanderingBookaneer @mrozzz : Read it! 6y
WanderingBookaneer @Reecaspieces & @AmberWB : It says it is fiction, though. 6y
sherryvdh Not sure what the audio is like, but I read it years ago and it was a good read, even though the subject matter is tough. 6y
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
AmberWB @WanderingBookaneer It technically is, but it‘s based on the author‘s experiences in Vietnam. He also wrote a nonfiction book called 6y
What It Is Like to Go to War
AmyG Unbeoken and Matterhorn were wonderful books. 6y
2BR02B If you liked the movie War Horse: 6y
Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
Kaye Lost in Shangrila. It‘s terrific. It takes place in New Guinea 🇬🇳 and doesn‘t have any war stuff or shooting. It‘s a bit like maybe Lost City of Z ? I haven‘t read that but these military people also get lost. It is really good and it comes in audio. 6y
WanderingBookaneer @sherryvdh : I‘ve read it. 👍🏻 6y
Soubhiville @2BR02B sounds interesting! 6y
benchley1 Me too...crap 6y
LeahBergen I‘m not sure if there‘s an audio version available but this book was fantastic 6y
The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java
LapReader Kakoda by Paul Ham is one of my Dad‘s favs and he loves a good war book. 6y
Dogearedcopy ‘What It Is Like to Go To War‘ ( by Karl Marlantes, narrated by Bronson Pinchot) 6y
What It Is Like to Go to War
Skeebies05 Husband and wife Iraq vets. Written by a woman so . . . 6y
The Heart of a Soldier: A True Story of Love, War, and Sacrifice
kricheal I liked 6y
Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
Nerdfins Idk if there is an audio version, but I really liked 6y
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949
drokka From a journalist‘s perspective 6y
Generation Kill
drokka From the Captain included in Generation Kill 6y
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
drokka A photo journalist‘s life in one year (several conflict zones - many potential triggers around violence) 6y
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
drokka The guy who wrote A Perfect Storm‘s experience with a particular American army platoon in Afghanistan (there is Ana complying photo essay called Infidel by the late Tim Heatherington) 6y
WAR
drokka Oh. I just saw ‘audiobook‘ I don‘t know if any of the above suggestions I made are available in that format 6y
Kimberlone Anything by Tim O‘Brien and Eugene Sledge‘s (edited) 6y
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
CouronneDhiver 6y
Marshlands: A Novel
Gaylagal2 I read this amazing book called Fives and Twenty Fives by Michael Pitre. I highly recommend it🤙 6y
Sjsherwood War but not military: Girl at War by Sara Novic or The Bosnia List by Kenan Trebincevic. My favorite war book is My War Gone By, I miss It So by Anthony Loyd. 6y
writerlibrarian @drokka great rec 6y
writerlibrarian @drokka Also a great rec. I enjoyed both Generation Kill books but this one was my favourite. 6y
writerlibrarian A classic is 6y
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
WanderingBookaneer @AmberWB & @Dogearedcopy I just started (edited) 6y
What It Is Like to Go to War
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