 | Jarhead: A Soldier's Story of Modern War by Anthony Swofford
Buy new: £1.72 / Used from: £0.01 Much better than the film. A good story about an intelligent young marines experience in Iraq and thereafter
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 | The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French defeat in Vietnam: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Martin Windrow
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £1.24 Not for the faint hearted. Windrow brilliantly unfolds events in one of the most classic battles of all time.
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 | March or Die: A New History of the French Foreign Legion by Tony Geraghty
Buy used from: £10.13 The Foreign Legion is no longer as special as it once was but its history remains fascinating.
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 | Secrets in the Fire by Henning Mankell
Buy new: £1.21 / Used from: £0.01 A story of hope and courage about a young african girl who loses her sister and her legs to a mine.
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 | River of Time by Jon Swain
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £1.60 A beautifully written book about one man's love affair with Indochina
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 | Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.08 The largest Leveraged Buy Out of the 80's - greed, egos and backstabbing - best of all a true story!
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 | Who Moved My Blackberry? (Martin Lukes) by Martin Lukes
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 Martin Lukes is the ' Alan Partridge of the Corporate world' a man who speaks in cliches, sees himself as special and is totally self centred. Reminded me of some people I worked with!
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 | After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £6.50 Murakami is simply an amazing storytellyer. Surreal yet profound at times, I couldnt put this book down.
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 | Cheese by Willem Elsschot
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £1.69 Simple and witty Elsschot is a great writer of the Dutch language, I hope the translation does him justice...
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 | A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £2.38 Lucid and unflinchingly honest a truely exceptional book.
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 | In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £0.65 Excellent book
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| Out of Mind by J. Bernlef
Buy used from: £2.99 Bernlef captures the descent into dementia superbly. The most depressing book I've ever read.
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