7 best-selling war books like The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff

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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

By: Michael Ignatieff

3.88

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the Wes…

"Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification."

-Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

"Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification."

-Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

"An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice."

-Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

"An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice."

-Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

If you liked the war plot in The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2) by Graham McNeill

1. False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

By: Graham McNeill

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by… read more

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  • war
"The truth is useless if no one can hear it."

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus"

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

"Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant." - First Chaplain Erebus"

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

"Las palabras moldean el pensamiento, remueven los sentimientos y accionan las fuerzas. Matan y reviven, corrompen y curan."

-Graham McNeill, False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

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2. The Complete Maus

By: Art Spiegelman

4.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more

Similar categories in Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus book and Michael Ignatieff's The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Ingen är normal."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"He’s more attached to things than people."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

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3. Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #3)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. F… read more

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4. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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5. Horus Rising

By: Dan Abnett

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream… read more

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  • war
Cover of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Paul Fussell, Eugene B. Sledge

6. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

7. Gomorrah

By: Roberto Saviano

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction accou… read more

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8. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pa…"

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

9. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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10. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

4.27

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, h… read more

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"Padlina będzie dla was, czarodziejów, nikt wam jej nie zabierze. Chyba że inne sępy."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

"It’s like they said! Geralt! It’s like they said! Am I your destiny? Say it! Am I your destiny?' ‘You’re more than that, Ciri. Much more."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

"Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?’ ‘Yes. It’s hard to call an accident destiny.’ ‘But you witchers do not stop searching?’ ‘No, we don’t. But it’s senseless. Nothing has any point."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

"It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it's the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

11. Planet of Slums

By: Mike Davis

4.01

Format: 448 pages,

Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more

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Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North

12. Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Ryan North

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic… read more

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  • war
"Recomendei aos meus filhos que não se envolvam com massacres sob hipótese alguma, e que notícias de massacres de inimigos não devem ser motivo de satisfação ou alegria."

-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

"A coisa mais importante que aprendi em Tralfamadore é que, quando uma pessoa morre, ela apenas parece estar morta. Mas continua bem viva no passado, e é uma bobagem chorar quando ela é enterrada. Tod…"

-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Cover of The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5) by Andrzej Sapkowski

13. The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a m… read more

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"I can hear… music…"

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

"A mother, you son-of-a-bitch, is sacred!"

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

"Świat się zmienia, słońce zachodzi, a wódka się kończy."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

"They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

Cover of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff

14. The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

By: Michael Ignatieff

3.88

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the Wes… read more

Similar categories in Michael Ignatieff's The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience book and Michael Ignatieff's The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification."

-Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

"An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or et…"

-Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

"The problem with nationalism is not the desire for self-determination itself, but the particular epistemological illusion that you can be at home, you can be understood, only among people like yourse…"

-Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

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Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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Donald L. Miller

4.18

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