Books like 13 Seconds by Philip Caputo

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

First‑hand reportage of the Vietnam War, *Dispatches* captures the confusion and intensity of combat through Michael Herr’s vivid, poetic prose.

A memoir of sixteen months in Vietnam, detailing the life of a Marine infantry officer and the realities of war during the conflict.

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

In the Lake of the Woods follows John and Kathy Wade as they grapple with political defeat, marital strain, and Kathy’s sudden disappearance on a Minnesota lake, prompting a desperate search and a haunted look at their hidden secrets.

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

A history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You'll meet Joseph Plumb Martin, who at the tender age of fifteen fought in the Revolutionary War; Charles Black, a freeborn African American sailor in the War of 1812; and Sam Chamberlain, of the Mexican American War, whose life inspired novelist Cormac McCarthy. Then there's Oliver Wendell Holmes, an aristocratic idealist disillusioned by the Civil War, and Littleton "Tony" Waller, court-martialed for refusing to massacre Filipino civilians. Each account illustrates a particular aspect of war, such as Mary Rhoads, an Army reservist forever changed by an Iraqi scud missile attack during the Persian Gulf War, and Monica Lin Brown, a frontline medic in rural Afghanistan who saved several lives in an ambushed convoy. From their acts of self-sacrifice to their astonishing bravery, these thirteen soldiers embody the best America has to offer.--

A soldier’s brutal journey through the Vietnam War, as telephone‑systems installer James Chelini is thrust into jungle combat under the North Vietnamese Army, his pacifist roots unraveling into a fierce wartime resolve.

A detailed examination of the events that culminated in the 1970 Kent State shootings, where four students were killed by National Guard troops during a protest.

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