Books like House to House by David Bellavia

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

Barbara Ehrenreich explores the realities of low‑wage work by living in sweatshops, hostels, and retail in three U.S. cities during the late 1990s.

Chris Kyle’s memoir chronicles his career as a U.S. Navy SEAL sniper, detailing his 150 confirmed kills during the Iraq and Afghan wars and offering a raw, personal account of combat life.

A frontline chronicle of the United States’ wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, told through the eyes of New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins.

A poignant novel exploring the aftermath of war on a single Iraq war veteran.

In this youth‑focused tale, the home front of World War II comes alive, blending historical detail with a Christian perspective and the buzz of a B‑29 bomber beyond the horizon.

On a clear night in June 2005, four Navy SEALs left their Afghanistan base for the Pakistani border on a mission to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell and that desperate battle in the mountains. It is the story of the teammates who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left. And it is the story of how, badly injured, Luttrell fought off assassins for four days before being taken in by a Pashtun tribe that risked everything to protect him from the Taliban.

Accounts the 2008 Winter Soldier hearings in Washington, D.C., where Iraq Veterans Against the War presented testimony and documents detailing atrocities witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan, challenging the notion that such acts were isolated incidents.

A Navy doctor recounts his thirty‑eight‑year‑old service during the Battle of Fallujah, detailing the relentless efforts of his medical team to save wounded troops under intense fire.

This memoir of fourteen months as America's proconsul in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. Bremer describes negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic institutions vital to Iraq's future; his resistance to the cut-and-run policy that would have quickly delivered governance of Iraq to a handful of unrepresentative anti-Saddam exiles; heated sessions among members of America's National Security Council; his frustration with intelligence operations that concentrated on the search for weapons of mass destruction while the insurgency gathered strength; the selfless and courageous work of thousands of American servicemen and -women and civilians; and working with Iraq's traumatized and divided population to find a path to a responsible government.--From publisher description

A nonfiction account of the First Recon Battalion’s 2003 Iraq war deployment, detailing the soldiers’ preparation, combat experiences, and personal toll as America’s first post‑Vietnam combat force.

Martha Raddatz chronicles the First Cavalry Division’s harrowing experiences during the 2004 Sadr City attack, while recounting the long wait of families eight thousand miles away. Her narrative blends valor, sorrow, and resilience.

In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al Qaida-after easily defeating the ragtag Taliban that had sheltered the terrorist organization behind the 9/11 attacks.At dawn on March 2, 2002, over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into the mouth of a buzz saw in the Shahikot Valley. Believing the war all but over, U.S. military leaders refused to commit the troops and materiel required to fight the war's biggest battle-a missed opportunity to crush hundreds of Al Qaida's fighters and some of its most senior leaders. Eyewitness Naylor vividly portrays the heroism of the young, untested soldiers unprepared for the ferocious enemy they fought; the mistakes that led to a hellish mountaintop firefight; and how thirteen American commandos embodied "Patton's three principles of war"-audacity, audacity and audacity-by creeping unseen over frozen mountains into the heart of an enemy stronghold to prevent a U.S. military catastrophe.