Mahan on Naval Strategy: Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (Classics of Sea Power)
By: John B. Hattendorf
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
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1. Command of the Air
By: Giulio Douhet
3.36
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
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2. The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
By: Ralph D. Sawyer
4.20
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
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3. The Battle of Midway
By: Craig L. Symonds
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so d… read more
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4. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Graham T. Allison , None , Philip Zelikow
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
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5. How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II
By: Phillips Payson O'Brien
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly tho… read more
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6. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren
3.98
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
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"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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7. Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
By: Sean Naylor
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
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8. War and Change in World Politics
By: Robert Gilpin
3.22
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
Using history, sociology and economic theory to uncover the forces behind change in the world order… read more
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9. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
By: Peter Paret , Felix Gilbert , Gordon A. Craig
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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10. On War
By: Michael Eliot Howard , Carl von Clausewitz , Peter Paret
3.75
Format: None pages,
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11. Strategy
By: B.H. Liddell Hart
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
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12. The Art of War
By: None , None
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
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14. MacArthur's Airman: General George C.Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific
By: None
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
A fighter pilot who flew seventy-five combat missions in World War I, George C. Kenney was a charis… read more
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15. The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain
By: Stephen Bungay
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Already hailed as the standard work, The Most Dangerous Enemyis an authoritative history of the Bri… read more
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16. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
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17. Principles of Maritime Strategy
By: Julian Stafford Corbett
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
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18. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
By: L. David Marquet
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
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20. The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
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4.67
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21. The Future of War: A History
By: Lawrence Freedman
4.65
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22. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
By: Sebastian Junger
4.02
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at pos… read more
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"Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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23. American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
By: Conrad C. Crane
3.44
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the… read more
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24. Air Power and Armies
By: John Cotesworth Slessor
3.68
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Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897–1979) was one of Great Britain's most influential airmen. He play… read more
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25. The Foundations of the Science of War
By: J.F.C. Fuller
3.04
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
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26. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
By: Tami Davis Biddle
3.82
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A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American … read more
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27. Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
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3.61
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28. Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy
By: Jenifer Van Vleck
3.40
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From the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspire… read more
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29. When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
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"Analyzes the question of whether great powers choose to accommodate, contain, or confront a rising… read more
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30. Mahan on Naval Strategy: Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (Classics of Sea Power)
By: John B. Hattendorf
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Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
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31. The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940
By: James S. Corum
4.10
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