Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood

After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give …

If you like book Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (30)

A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One." When the French forces at Dien Bien Phu were being threatened with destruction, during 1953-1954…
Buy this book on Amazon
Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have never been revealed. One such secret was buried in the deep, dark forest of Katyn, Poland. The other…
Buy this book on Amazon
Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE?

It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are teetering on a knife-edge as leaders on both sides of the Pacific strive to prevent war between them. But f…
Buy this book on Amazon
Once an Eagle

Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the m…
Buy this book on Amazon
Matterhorn

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the trad…
Buy this book on Amazon
About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior

Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of p…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

As a commander in Delta Force-the most elite counter-terrorist organization in the world-Pete Blaber has taken part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from 1770 to 1975. It includes political intrigues in Paris, London, Washington and Canberra. It is told …
Buy this book on Amazon
Level Zero Heroes: The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan

An elite Marine special operations team, a battle to save downed soldiers in Afghanistan, a fight for survival―an incredible true story of war that became a New York Times bestseller.

In Level Zero Her…
Buy this book on Amazon
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Onc…
Buy this book on Amazon
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

If the Marines are “the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a…
Buy this book on Amazon
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action and raw intensity of leading his Third Platoon, Alpha Company, into a lethally choreographed kill zone…
Buy this book on Amazon
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers…
Buy this book on Amazon
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds

One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces comman…
Buy this book on Amazon
Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludefance’s evening is suddenly shattered when a beautiful young woman sits down next to him, whispers, “M…
Buy this book on Amazon
Dispatches

Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches m…
Buy this book on Amazon
Once There Was a War

Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction** In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, wr…
Buy this book on Amazon
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The action was…
Buy this book on Amazon
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.

13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, …
Buy this book on Amazon
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

Buy this book on Amazon
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette--the one Frenchman we could all agree …
Buy this book on Amazon
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller

From commanding the Horse Marines in Peking to leading the Inchon landing, Puller became a legend in his own time. Now, Davis offers a no-holds-barred biography of this courageous hero--the only marin…
Buy this book on Amazon
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather a…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Steel Wave (World War II: 1939-1945, #2)

General Dwight Eisenhower commands a diverse army that must destroy Hitler’s European fortress. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel prepares for the coming invasion, as the Führer th…
Buy this book on Amazon
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hop…
Buy this book on Amazon
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest …
Buy this book on Amazon
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

The platoon included four pairs of best friends. Each of the four would lose a best friend forever.Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company’s 1st Platoon found itself in Fallujah, embroi…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career that included his involvement…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller.

The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold …
Buy this book on Amazon