Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe,the Brits and Chiang Kai-shek
By: David Rooney
3.80
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
This new and meticulously researched biography of the controversial American commander Joe Stilwell…
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1. Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq
By: Bob Woodward , None
3.70
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, … read more
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2. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
3. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
4. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.29
Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more
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"In battle, topography is fate."-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
5. Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945
By: Max Hastings
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hast… read more
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6. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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7. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
By: Jacques Pépin
2.50
Format: None pages,
In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells th… read more
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8. Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
3.38
Format: None pages,
Two Years Before the Mastis a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a t… read more
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9. Did You Really Shoot The Television?: A Family Fable: A Family Memoir
By: Max Hastings
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and gardening… read more
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10. The Battle for the Falklands
By: Max Hastings , Simon Jenkins
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on t… read more
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11. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
By: Joe Haldeman
4.14
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more
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"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
12. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
By: James Holland
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more
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13. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
By: John King Fairbank , Barbara W. Tuchman
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-45 … read more
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14. The Butcher of Anderson Station (The Expanse, #0.5)
By: James S.A. Corey
3.62
Format: None pages,
A new story set in the world of The Expanse. One day, Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as a hero… read more
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15. Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR & the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
By: Joseph E. Persico
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Rooseve… read more
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16. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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17. Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
By: None , None
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of … read more
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18. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
19. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
By: Jessica Bruder
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
20. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
By: Ian W. Toll
4.59
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a … read more
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21. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
22. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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23. To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
By: James G. Stavridis
3.99
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure t… read more
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24. The King’s Cartographer
By: Jair Alcalay
3.38
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
The world just beckons to be discovered… Lisbon, 1481 . On the backdrop of Catholicism's rise and … read more
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25. Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
By: Saul David
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed historian Saul David, a stunning and gripping new history of the British airborne ex… read more
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26. Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe,the Brits and Chiang Kai-shek
By: David Rooney
3.80
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
This new and meticulously researched biography of the controversial American commander Joe Stilwell… read more
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