Books of Interest
Afghanistan / Operation Enduring Freedom
Beattie, Doug. Task Force Helmand: A Soldier’s Story of Life, Death, and Combat on
the Afghan Front Line. Simon and Schuster.
Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden
from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. London: Penguin Books,
2004. (Won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize)
Freidman, Brandon. The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality
of War: A Screaming Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq. Zenith Press, 2007.
Jones, Seth. In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan. New York:
W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.
Junger, Sebastian. War. New York: Twelve, 2010.
Khan, M. Salahuddin. Sikander. Karakoram Press, 2010. (Novel)
Luttrell, Marcus with Patrick Robinson. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of
Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10. New York: Back Bay
Books, 2007.
Luttrell, Marcus. Service: A Navy SEAL at War. Little, Brown, and Co., 2012.
Minear, Larry. Through Veterans’ Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience. Dulles,
VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 2010.
Naylor, Sean. Not a Good Day to Die. 2005.
Owen, Mark. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama
bin Laden. Dutton Adult, 2012.
Parnell, Sean. Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of
War in Afghanistan. William Morrow, 2012.
Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Rayment, Sean. Into the Killing Zone: The Real Story from the Frontline in
Afghanistan. Constable, 2008.
Rieckhoff, Paul. Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective.
New York: NAL Caliber, 2006.
Roy-Bhattacharya, Joydeep. The Watch: A Novel. Hogarth, 2012.
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Scholl-Latour, Peter. Weltmacht Im Treibsand. 2004.
Shaffer, Anthony. Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontiers of
Afghanistan –and the Path to Victory. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010.
Stanton, Doug. Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who
Rode to Victory in Afghanistan. Scribner, 2009.
Tamarov, Vladislav. Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier’s Story. Ten Speed Press, 2001.
Wood, Bryan A. Unspoken Abandonment: Sometimes the Hardest Part of Going to
War is Coming Home. CreateSpace, 2012.
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