20 of Your Picks for Modern War Books
This Riot Recommendation of modern war books is sponsored by Prometheus Books, bringing you Disarmed by Izzy Ezagui.
Combining refreshing candor with self-deprecating wit, this inspiring memoir encourages readers to reach their aspirations despite seemingly impossible odds. Disarmed is the moving story of a young American who volunteered to fight in the Israel Defense Forces, lost his arm in combat, and then returned to the battlefield as the world’s only one-armed Special Forces sharpshooter.
Izzy Ezagui wrote Disarmed with fellow millennials in mind—not necessarily those with military ambitions, but everyone facing life’s battles. His message is universal: if a self-described “nerd” like him can accomplish what he did; anyone can become a hero in their own life.
The topic of war is complex and difficult, and it seems to have grown even more so since the days described in The Illiad. Come to think of it, Homer’s epic was probably the last book I read about war. So I asked you: what are the best modern books on the subject? Your recommendations follow: War by Sebastian Junger Code Girls by Liza Mundy The Reaper by Nicholas Irving and Gary Brozek We Were Soldiers Once…and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway Lions of Kandahar by Rusty Bradley and Kevin Maurer Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer Legend by Eric Blehm The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang The Chosen Few by Gregg Zoroya and William H. McRaven No Easy Day by Mark Owen The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan Blind Man’s Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew If You Survive by George Wilson 12 Strong by Doug Stanton Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell and John Bruning Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns
Combining refreshing candor with self-deprecating wit, this inspiring memoir encourages readers to reach their aspirations despite seemingly impossible odds. Disarmed is the moving story of a young American who volunteered to fight in the Israel Defense Forces, lost his arm in combat, and then returned to the battlefield as the world’s only one-armed Special Forces sharpshooter.
Izzy Ezagui wrote Disarmed with fellow millennials in mind—not necessarily those with military ambitions, but everyone facing life’s battles. His message is universal: if a self-described “nerd” like him can accomplish what he did; anyone can become a hero in their own life.
The topic of war is complex and difficult, and it seems to have grown even more so since the days described in The Illiad. Come to think of it, Homer’s epic was probably the last book I read about war. So I asked you: what are the best modern books on the subject? Your recommendations follow: War by Sebastian Junger Code Girls by Liza Mundy The Reaper by Nicholas Irving and Gary Brozek We Were Soldiers Once…and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway Lions of Kandahar by Rusty Bradley and Kevin Maurer Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer Legend by Eric Blehm The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang The Chosen Few by Gregg Zoroya and William H. McRaven No Easy Day by Mark Owen The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan Blind Man’s Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew If You Survive by George Wilson 12 Strong by Doug Stanton Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell and John Bruning Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns
