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    Last Active: Aug 4, 2018
Firstly, Ben Macintyre makes non-fiction read like fiction. The story behind the SAS is so completely interesting, and it was engaging all of the way through. The SAS is the forerunner of all Special Ops unit today.
  
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings | 2013 | History & Politics
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Max Hastings is another author that makes non-fiction read like fiction. This book did a great job to really streamline the reasons why the Great War started in 1914, and covered all of the activity until 1915.
  
Some of the short stories were amusing, but too much of the fiction was excerpted from well-known novels. I have to admit that I only skimmed the non-fiction, which makes up the majority of the book.