The Praetorians
By: Jean Lartéguy
4.05
Format: 350 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A novel written by a French war correspondent set in Algiers at the end of colonial rule, and the …
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1. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.30
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realit… read more
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- france
- military fiction
- war
"No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
2. Ball Four
By: Jim Bouton
4.05
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.When first p… read more
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"It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"The older they get, the better they get when they were younger"-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
3. 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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- classics
- war
4. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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- military fiction
- war
5. Matterhorn
By: Karl Marlantes
3.30
Format: 107 pages,
A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly dec… read more
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- military fiction
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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7. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
By: Alistair Horne
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the colla… read more
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9. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
By: Steven Pressfield
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more
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10. Cinque storie ferraresi
By: Giorgio Bassani
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Cinque storie. Quella di Lida Mantovani, ragazza madre che sposa un brav'uomo ma non riesce a dargl… read more
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11. The Dogs of War
By: Frederick Forsyth
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Knocking off a bank or an armored truck is merely crude. Knocking off an entire republic has, I fe… read more
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- africa
- military fiction
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- fiction
"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire"-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War
"… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool."-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War
"The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went. Being simple peasants, growers of yams and cassava, they did not know wha…"-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War
12. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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13. A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
By: David Chanoff , Truong Nhu Tang , Doan Van Toai
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese … read more
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14. Eva
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
4.17
Format: 510 pages, ebook
Marzo de 1937. Mientras la Guerra Civil sigue su tragico curso, una nueva mision lleva a Lorenzo Fa… read more
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15. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
By: Hunter S. Thompson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more
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16. The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
By: Bob Drury , Tom Clavin
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his … read more
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17. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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18. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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19. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more
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20. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
By: Michael Lewis
3.93
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a sim… read more
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21. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
By: Mick Herron
4.13
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more
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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
22. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
23. A Spy Alone
By: Charles Beaumont
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
24. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
25. 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
"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
26. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
By: Fergus M. Bordewich
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more
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27. 7 Seconds to Die: A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting
By: John Antal
3.86
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War―the first war in history won primarily b… read more
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- war
28. The Praetorians
By: Jean Lartéguy
4.05
Format: 350 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A novel written by a French war correspondent set in Algiers at the end of colonial rule, and the … read more
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- classics
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- war
- algeria
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
