Books like Chosen Soldier by Dick Couch

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.

SOG was the most secret elite U.S. military unit to serve in the war in Vietnam, so secret it was "black" - meaning its very existence was carefully concealed, even denied by the government. Innocuously code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army Green Berets, USAF Air Commandos, and Navy SEALs, and answered directly to the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs, with some missions requiring approval from the White House. Inside Vietnam, only General William Westmoreland and a few senior non-SOG officers were briefed on SOG activities. Now the never-before-revealed exploits of this top-secret commando unit are vividly recounted by Major John L. Plaster, a three-tour SOG veteran. SOG took on the most dangerous assignments, going behind enemy lines to penetrate North Vietnamese military facilities in Laos and Cambodia and along the heavily defended Ho Chi Minh Trail, where only air support - and sometimes no support at all - was available.

A gripping account of a U.S. SEAL team's harrowing mission to take control of Takur Ghar mountain peak in Afghanistan during the 2002 Operation Anaconda, featuring the story of a red-haired SEAL who was stranded and the brave efforts to rescue him.

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.

A first‑hand chronicle of U.S. Special Operations, from Vietnam to Khartoum and Afghanistan, detailing Billy Waugh’s service, including his role in capturing terrorism icon Carlos the Jackal.

This book is the most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs -- from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror -- written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series. Over the last fifty years, a small Navy unit has evolved into the world's most celebrated fighting force: the U.S. Navy SEALs. Until now, their stories have been sealed in the chambers of operational secrecy -- and the brotherhood of SEAL anonymity. Drawing on exclusive interviews with more than 100 former special operators, highly respected retired SEAL Dick Couch and award-winning author Bill Doyle record their stories in Navy Seals and give us the epic chronicle these legendary warriors deserve. Navy Seals charts the SEALs story, from their origins in the daring Naval Combat Demolition Teams, Underwater Demolition Teams, Scouts and Raiders commando units, and OSS Operational Swimmers of WWII to their coming of age in Vietnam and rise to glory in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. Illustrated with 40 pages of photographs, here are the greatest missions of the world's most legendary special operators in their own words. - Publisher.

Former Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer recounts daring missions—from a Mosquito Coast reconnaissance to a ski‑jump over the Achille Lauro hijackers—highlighting the indomitable warrior spirit of United States naval special operations.

For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life.

Tom Clancy and Carl Stiner chronicle the evolution of U.S. Special Forces from their 1950s origins through Vietnam, the Cold War, and modern conflicts, revealing the unique roles that Green Berets, Navy SEALS, Rangers, Air Force Special Operations, and PsyOps play on the global stage.

An inside look at Delta Force, the U.S. Army’s elite counterterrorist unit, told by founding member Eric L. Haney through firsthand accounts of selection, missions and the life of a Delta operator.

A thrilling exploration of the United States' elite military commandos and special operations forces, set against the backdrop of American history and military policy, through the eyes of a seasoned commando and a historian who uncovers the dark secrets of the elite elite commandos that shape American history's darkest chapters.

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.