Fiction about, or set in the time period of, the Iraq and Afghan Wars.
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Spoils
BRIAN VAN REET - LEE BOUDREAUX Books
Format: Book
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The Kite Runner meets The Things They Carried in this explosive debut which maps the blurred lines between good and bad, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished. It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds.... |
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Ultimate Weapon
Chris Ryan - Weinstein Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Increment and Greed — a former SAS commander and the only member of his team to escape from Iraq during the Gulf War. Three people. Three stories. And a dangerous struggle for survival in a country ravaged by war. 6265
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Bring Out the Dog: Stories
Will Mackin - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Things They Carried and Redeployment, this short story collection reveals a remarkable portrait of the absurdity and poetry that define life in the most clandestine circles of modern warfare - from a U.S. Navy veteran who completed five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.... |
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The Chameleon's Shadow
Minette Walters - Knopf
Format: Book
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When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, “the prolonged destruction of a personality.”... |
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One Was a Soldier
Julia Spencer-Fleming - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.... |
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In the Name of Honor
Richard North Patterson - Henry Holt and Co.; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer - was it self-defense or premeditated murder? An enthralling novel of suspense about the high cost of war and secrets. The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran... |
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Redeployment
Phil Klay - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction "Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It's the best thing written so far on what the war did to people's souls." - Dexter Filkins, Selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book... |
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Green on Blue: A Novel
Elliot Ackerman - Scribner Book Company
Format: Book
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From the author of Waiting for Eden and the National Book Award Finalist Dark at the Crossing, a “compassionate, provocative, and alive” (Vogue.com)... |
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The Mullah's Storm
Thomas W. Young - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary debut novel about courage and survival in Afghanistan, written as only a man who has "been there and done that" could tell it. "When you write fiction, your best work may come from what scares you the most," writes airman Thomas W. Young. "When... |
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Rescuing Finley
Dan Walsh - Bainbridge Press, 2015.
Format: Book
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Amy Wallace has made plenty of mistakes in her young life, but she didn’t see this one coming. Chris Seger is a marine serving in Afghanistan. His life is forever altered by a single, fateful step. A mother of another Afghan war vet suffers a devastating loss, which changes the course... |
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Lipstick in Afghanistan
Roberta Gately - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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Roberta Gately’s lyrical and authentic debut novel—inspired by her own experiences as a nurse in third world war zones—is one woman’s moving story of offering help and finding hope in the last place she expected. Gripped by haunting magazine images of starving refugees,... |
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Dead Zero: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel
Stephen Hunter - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Book
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From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger - who may have... |
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
Kevin Powers - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.
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