Kevin Maurer Books in Order

Kevin Maurer accompanies a Green Beret team in Afghanistan to examine the soldiers’ work, training and close bonds. His account explores a force caught between offensive raids and its traditional role of building local partnerships in counterinsurgency warfare.

A Special Forces mission to capture a terrorist leader in Afghanistan becomes a desperate battle after an ambush traps the team on a mountain ledge. Drawing on participants’ accounts, the book follows their struggle to protect wounded comrades and survive.

This account follows the American Special Forces team assigned to help stop Che Guevara’s insurgency in Bolivia. Documents and eyewitness testimony trace the training of Bolivian Rangers and the operations leading to the revolutionary’s capture and execution.

An undercover Muslim American FBI agent recounts infiltrating a North American terrorist cell after joining an elite counterterrorism unit. His account follows the patient work of gaining trust, collecting evidence and disrupting a plot before it could be carried out.

In 1945, American paratroopers undertake the dangerous mission to recapture Corregidor from its Japanese defenders. Using veterans’ testimony, Kevin Maurer reconstructs the assault on the island fortress and the soldiers’ struggle amid cliffs, bomb craters and determined resistance.

Bomber pilot John Luckadoo survives twenty-five missions over occupied Europe with the 100th Bomb Group in 1943. His recollections follow the fear, losses and daily decisions of airmen facing enemy fighters, antiaircraft fire and appalling odds of returning home.

A Special Forces soldier enlists an Afghan contractor to help recover a nuclear weapon before it reaches Al-Qaeda. Rivalries, Taliban connections and an American investigation threaten their operation, forcing the men into morally uncertain choices to avert disaster.

Rusty Bradley recounts a fierce battle during Operation Medusa in Afghanistan in 2006. His account follows American and Afghan Special Forces confronting Taliban fighters near Kandahar, describing the terrain, tactical decisions, and soldiers involved.

Owen recounts his career as a Navy SEAL and his participation in the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. Written with Kevin Maurer, the memoir describes training, teamwork, earlier deployments, and the preparation and execution of the operation.

Bill Richardson recounts combat and captivity during the Korean War in a memoir written with Kevin Maurer. He describes the battle at Unsan, forced marches, deprivation, and efforts to resist imprisonment while supporting fellow American prisoners.