A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
By: Susan Dunn
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprec…
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1. Truman
By: David McCullough
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more
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2. Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
By: David Kahn
4.67
Format: 48 pages,
Among the famous battles of World War II, the longest and most critical was the Battle of the Atlan… read more
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3. Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World
By: Stanley McChrystal , Chris Fussell
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Hardcover
The retired four-star general and and bestselling author ofMy Share of the Taskshares a powerful ne… read more
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4. Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
By: Ben Macintyre
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most re… read more
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5. 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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"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
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7. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
8. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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10. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
11. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
By: Calder Walton
4.30
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more
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12. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
13. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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14. The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
By: Elliot Ackerman
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate… read more
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15. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
By: Ian W. Toll
4.76
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more
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"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
16. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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17. Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper's Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II
By: Henry Langrehr
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person a… read more
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18. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II
By: Harry H. Crosby
4.58
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war a… read more
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19. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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20. Three Days at the Brink
By: Bret Baier
4.21
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
“I not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly writt… read more
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21. Bletchley Park and D-Day: The Untold Story of How the Battle for Normandy Was Won
By: David Kenyon
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has beco… read more
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22. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
By: Bethany Allen
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade ques… read more
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23. Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for the Future of Europe
By: Joe Scarborough
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the S… read more
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24. Bradley (Americans Fighting to Free Europe)
By: Charles Whiting
4.03
Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthralling biography of the tireless WWII infantry leader who became popularly known as ‘the G.… read more
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25. Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
By: Lawrence Freedman
4.16
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an asserti… read more
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26. The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
By: Kent Garrett
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the Harvard class of ’63, whose Black students fought to create their own ident… read more
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27. The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
By: Tobias Harris
4.20
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Shinzō Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, see… read more
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28. Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
By: Nicholas E. Reynolds
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Historian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer… read more
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29. A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
By: Susan Dunn
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprec… read more
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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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"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. Hitler's Armada: The Royal Navy & the Defence of Great Britain April–October 1940
By: Geoff Hewitt
3.70
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
“Any historian or general lover of history in Hitler, or the importance of the Germany Navy in WWII… read more
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