“Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan,” by Doug Stanton

Doug Stanton’s Horse Soldiers is a riveting account of one of the most remarkable military operations in modern history. The book tells the true story of a small group of U.S. Special Forces soldiers who, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, were sent to Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban—on horseback. It’s a gripping narrative of […]

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

“Poilu,” by Louis Barthas is on the greatest accounts of the War To End All Wars, and one of the few from the perspective of a French Corporal constantly assigned to the trenches. I’ve read quite a lot of books on The Great War, first hand accounts and some fail to convey the true horrors […]