Books like Close combat by William E. Butterworth III

Explores the experiences of the 101st Airborne Division from their D-Day drop in Normandy through key battles in Europe to the end of World War II.

In Tom Clancy’s thriller, CIA analyst Jack Ryan devises a plan to end Middle‑East conflict, but a terrorist coup ignites distrust and a looming nuclear crisis that threatens U.S. leadership and global stability.

A Pulitzer‑winning historical novel that dramatizes the four‑day Battle of Gettysburg from the viewpoints of Union and Confederate leaders.

A historical fiction recounting the 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans faced the Persian army led by King Xerxes, exploring the themes of courage, honor, and the enduring human spirit.

E.B. Sledge’s first‑person account chronicles the brutal battles of Peleliu and Okinawa, revealing the psychological toll on a U.S. Marine and the moral dilemmas he faced.

Behind the Lines is a World War II historical fiction set in the Philippines, focusing on American forces, including the United States Marine Corps, during the 1939‑1945 period.

A former Marine sniper on the run from the government after a failed assassination attempt on the President, seeking justice and redemption in Arkansas.

Follow CIA counterterrorism specialist Mitch Rapp as he tackles his first explosive assignment in "American Assassin."

Unrestricted Warfare is a Chinese military treatise that argues asymmetric, multidimensional tactics—including terrorism—can be used to counter U.S. power, offering strategic insights for 21st‑century conflict.

A gripping tale of World War II Marines trapped on a remote Coastwatcher island, a daring rescue under enemy fire, and the courage that defines wartime heroism.

Set during the fierce Guadalcanal campaign of World War II, this novel follows the intertwined adventures of U.S. Marines, pilots, and Coastwatchers as they confront the brutal challenges of Pacific warfare.

During the Pacific war, the U.S. Marine Corps’ elite Marine Raiders confront the challenges of Pearl Harbor and the South Pacific, showcasing courage, honor, and the bonds between fighters and lovers.

A high‑stakes thriller where U.S. presidents, drug cartels, and pirate‑held tankers collide as retired Colonel Charley Castillo is coaxed back into covert ops.

A novel of courage, violence, and passions set against the backdrop of World War II, focusing on soldiers and their bonds within the military setting.

Historian Fergusson provides a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Ferguson examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity. --From publisher description.

A daring OSS operative must help a German lieutenant escape a Mississippi POW camp, uncover a Nazi conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, and protect the lieutenants’ parents in Argentina from a lethal assassination plot.

In 1943 Argentina, Marine pilot Cletus Frade, recruited by the OSS, runs a covert airline while uncovering German schemes to rescue Jews and stash Nazi officials in South America.

In 1943, an OSS team in the Philippines stands as the sole lifeline for dwindling American forces besieged by the Imperial Japanese Army.

During World War II, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering leads his Marine men—and his son—into undeclared danger, a gripping military‑history adventure set against the backdrop of the U.S. Marine Corps' wartime exploits.

From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the United States’ first bold counterstrike on the beaches of Guadalcanal, this historical war novel follows Marines as they face the highs and lows of World War II combat.

Set during the Korean War, "Under Fire" follows a Marine Corps officer’s journey from a dismissed intelligence report to the frontlines as the United States mobilizes veteran fighters to repel the North Korean invasion.

During World War II, the OSS covertly gathers a critical rare ore for a secret weapon, while pilot Richard Canidy teams with his half‑German friend Eric Fulmar to thwart both Allied and Axis rivals.

In April 1943, Marine aviator Cletus Frade, Army demolition expert Anthony Pelosi, and communications expert David Ettinger are drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue in wartime Buenos Aires, where a German vessel, a sizable postwar shipment, and a coup plot converge, forcing them to navigate Allied and Axis sympathizers to survive.