Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pacific Alamo | 2003 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 2 | As Good As Dead : The True WWII Story of Eleven American POWs Who Escaped from Palawan Island | 2016 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 3 | As Good As Dead | 2020 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 4 | Chesty Puller | 2021 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 5 | Only the Brave | 2021 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 6 | Rock Force | 2021 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 7 | Battle Stations | 2021 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 8 | Torpedo Run | 2022 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 9 | Blood and Fury | 2022 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 10 | One Square Mile of Hell | 2022 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 11 | Chuck Yeager | 2022 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 12 | Chuck Yeager: | 2022 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 13 | Above the Pacific | 2023 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 14 | Len Lomell | 2023 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 15 | Richard Bong | 2023 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 16 | Destroyer Captain | 2024 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
| 17 | Beyond the Call of Duty | 2024 | James D. Hornfischer | Buy |
James D. Hornfischer wrote the American War Heroes series across two decades, starting with Pacific Alamo in 2003. The series grew steadily after a long gap, with most of its seventeen books arriving between 2020 and 2024. Titles like Chesty Puller, Chuck Yeager, and Richard Bong suggest a focus on individual military figures, while entries such as One Square Mile of Hell and Battle Stations point to broader accounts of wartime action.
The book titles and the “Fiction” genre tag make this a war-fiction series rather than straight nonfiction, though several titles share names with real historical figures. Hornfischer is the sole author across all seventeen entries, which gives the series a consistent voice from Lawman through Beyond the Call of Duty (2024).
Readers who start with Pacific Alamo will find a long backlist waiting. The series picked up pace in the early 2020s, with four books in 2021, four more in 2022, and three in 2023 before wrapping its most recent pair in 2024.