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Special Operations Books
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Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,277 ratings — published 2004
Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,408 ratings — published 2007
Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.20 — 833 ratings — published 1996
Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,156 ratings — published 2006
Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,009 ratings — published 2012
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,104 ratings — published 2013
Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,513 ratings — published 2011
Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces (Commanders)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,623 ratings — published 2001
The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,156 ratings — published 2004
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.30 — 68,270 ratings — published 1999
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,305 ratings — published 2015
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,242 ratings — published 2019
First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.80 — 423 ratings — published 2014
Men in Green Faces: A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,651 ratings — published 1992
Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,714 ratings — published
Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.73 — 609 ratings — published 2001
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,301 ratings — published 2002
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,030 ratings — published 2008
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,500 ratings — published 2010
Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe Publication Order, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.22 — 75,926 ratings — published 1993
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.34 — 99,700 ratings — published 2006
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,811 ratings — published 2005
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,145 ratings — published 2020
The Complete History of the SAS: The Full Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Elite Fighting Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.18 — 62 ratings — published 2004
The Crossroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,394 ratings — published 2013
The Janson Directive (Paul Janson, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,748 ratings — published 2002
SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.23 — 300 ratings — published 2021
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,679 ratings — published 2019
Golden Buddha (Oregon Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,037 ratings — published 2003
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,936 ratings — published 2015
Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.37 — 16,012 ratings — published 2016
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.46 — 10,914 ratings — published 2019
Dagger 22: U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations In Bala Murghab, Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.27 — 779 ratings — published 2016
The Jedburghs: France, 1944, and the Secret Untold History of the First Special Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.98 — 258 ratings — published 2005
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.63 — 177,489 ratings — published 1980
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.56 — 108 ratings — published 1985
Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.90 — 310 ratings — published 2014
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,682 ratings — published
The Athena Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,465 ratings — published 2010
The Survivor (Mitch Rapp, #14)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.28 — 27,009 ratings — published 2015
Transfer of Power (Mitch Rapp, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.34 — 59,631 ratings — published 1999
The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.10 — 60,068 ratings — published 1988
The Outlaws (Presidential Agent, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,407 ratings — published 2010
Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,289 ratings — published 2002
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,053 ratings — published 1991
Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,535 ratings — published 1998
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan, #5; Jack Ryan Universe, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.14 — 143,315 ratings — published 1989
Patriot Games (Jack Ryan, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.16 — 212,730 ratings — published 1987
The Lions of Lucerne (Scot Harvath, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.09 — 46,257 ratings — published 2002
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as special-operations)
avg rating 4.12 — 386,360 ratings — published 1984
“First, never let your opponent figure out what you’re doing—deception at all times. Second, always leave yourself a way out.”
― The Gathering Elements
― The Gathering Elements
“But inevitably, after all the hardware questions had been answered, Breen would circle down to the question he’d really wanted to ask: What’s it like to blow some unsuspecting raghead’s shit away from a thousand yards? Carl always answered the same way: I tried not to think about that side of it, sir. It was a job, and I focused on the mechanics of it. Guys like Ray Breen never grasped the true nature of sniping. It was as much about concealment as it was about shooting.”
― Third Degree
― Third Degree
