John L. Plaster Books in Order
John L. Plaster has written 8 books, published between 1993 and 2017. The first book is Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers (1993) and the newest is Sniping in the Trenches: World War I and the Birth of Modern Sniping (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1993–2017
- Pages on record
- 2,393 in 5 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 40–60 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,393 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Sniping and commando operations are the subjects John L. Plaster's catalogue returns to across 8 books published between 1993 and 2017. Ultimate Sniper (1993) is a training manual for military and police snipers. Three titles cover the Studies and Observations Group of the US Military Assistance Command in Vietnam: SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam (1997), SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars (2000) and Secret Commandos (2004). Later books reach back to Civil War sharpshooting and, in Sniping in the Trenches (2017), to the First World War.
How many John L. Plaster books are there?
John L. Plaster has 8 books, released between 1993 and 2017.
John L. Plaster Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 John L. Plaster books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers1993 · 453 pages · confirmed 1/419934531/4
- 2SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam1997 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/419973841/4
- 3SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars2000 · 485 pages · confirmed 1/420004851/4
- 4Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG2004 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420043841/4
- 5The History of Sniping and Sharpshooting2008 · 687 pages · confirmed 1/420086871/4
- 6Sharpshooting in the Civil War2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 72017–1/4
- 8Sniping in the Trenches: World War I and the Birth of Modern Sniping2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
John L. Plaster books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
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7 books7 John L. Plaster titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read John L. Plaster books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 John L. Plaster books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with John L. Plaster
Start with Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers (1993), the earliest published title.
What is the newest John L. Plaster book?
Sniping in the Trenches: World War I and the Birth of Modern Sniping (2017) is the newest John L. Plaster book released so far.
Is there a new John L. Plaster book coming?
No next John L. Plaster book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
John L. Plaster at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest John L. Plaster title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- John L. Plaster books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,393 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 453 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most John L. Plaster books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2000s.
What the John L. Plaster books are about
5 of the 8 John L. Plaster books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: commando operations is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Commando operations 3 of 5 books
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 3 of 5 books
- Commando troops 2 of 5 books
- History 2 of 5 books
- Sniping (Military science) 2 of 5 books
- United States 2 of 5 books
- Handbooks, manuals 1 of 5 books
- Regimental histories 1 of 5 books
- Sharpshooting (Military science) 1 of 5 books
- United states, army, special forces 1 of 5 books
- Vietnam war, 1961-1975, personal narratives 1 of 5 books
- Vietnam war, 1961-1975, regimental histories 1 of 5 books