Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
By: Andrew Roberts
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest an…
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1. About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior
By: Ward Just , David H. Hackworth , Julie Sherman
4.36
Format: 875 pages, Hardcover
Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this na… read more
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2. The Conquest of Gaul
By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more
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3. Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
By: Michael Doran
3.54
Format: 230 pages, ebook
"Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise" (The New York Times Book Review)--a maj… read more
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- politics
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4. World Order
By: Henry Kissinger
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more
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5. The Warrior Ethos
By: Steven Pressfield
3.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WARS CHANGE, WARRIORS DON'T We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defen… read more
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6. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more
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- politics
- history
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"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
7. The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars have been Won and Lost
By: None
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
Cathal Nolan's The Allure of Battleshows that while wars have shaped the history of the modern worl… read more
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8. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
By: Tony Koltz , Colin Powell
3.69
Format: None pages, ebook
It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendar… read more
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9. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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10. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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11. The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
By: Barry S. Strauss
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A “splendid” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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13. Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
By: Laurence Rees
4.53
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the … read more
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- biography
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- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
By: Jim Mattis
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by … read more
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- military history
- nonfiction
- business
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15. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
By: David H. Petraeus
4.06
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more
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- war
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"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
16. Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
By: Jocko Willink
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate guide on leadership from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Extreme Owners… read more
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- war
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17. On Grand Strategy
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more
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18. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
By: Robert A. Caro
4.44
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson… read more
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- biography memoir
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"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
19. The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions
By: Hasard Lee
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
THE #2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisi… read more
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- nonfiction
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20. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
By: William H. McRaven
4.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more
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21. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more
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- biography
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"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
22. To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
By: Bret Baier
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life … read more
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23. Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
By: Andrew Roberts
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest an… read more
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24. Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
By: Niall Ferguson
3.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2022Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when cata… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- history
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26. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.38
Format: 620 pages, Hardcover
This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of t… read more
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- biography
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"...if the Greeks joined together in the Panhellenic cause and attacked Persia to take land and wealth. Once conquered, Asian barbarians would work the field and tend the cattle as slaves or helot-lik…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
"The Macedonians and Greek has been raised to despise Persians and all Asians as barbarians, fit only to be slaves, and the defeat of Darius and his great armies can only have reinforced their immense…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
27. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
By: Christian Brose
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more
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- politics
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
28. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
By: Ryan Holiday
4.21
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more
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- history
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29. Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
By: H.R. McMaster
4.12
Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times Bestseller Now with new text from McMaster addressing the January 2021 assault on t… read more
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- military history
- nonfiction
"Поки вони підривають школи для дівчаток в Афганістані, їхні діти ходять до приватних шкіл."-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
"Освіта життєво важлива не лише для того, щоб громадяни розпізнавали небезпеки російських дезінформаційних кампаній, а й щоб відновилася довіра до демократичних принципів, інституцій і процесів."-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
"The president and many of those who served him were sympathetic to the New Left interpretation of foreign affairs, one that considers so-called Western capitalist imperialism as the primary cause of …"-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
"Consistency and will are, therefore, important dimensions of strategic competence. But our will is diminished. As our foreign policies swung from over-optimism to resignation, identity politics inter…"-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
30. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- history
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
31. The Strange Case
By: Derek Kolstad
3.79
Format: None pages, Audiobook
One doctor. One assassin. One and the same. From the creator of John Wick comes a thrilling mode… read more
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