Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy
By: Perry M. Smith
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List Since the first edition of Pentagon…
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1. Once an Eagle
By: Anton Myrer
4.39
Format: 1312 pages, Paperback
Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a … read more
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"We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old,…"-Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle
2. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
3. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
By: Nick Offerman
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Parks and Recreationactor Nick Offerman shares his humorous musings on life, manliness, meat, and m… read more
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4. Discourses and Selected Writings
By: Epictetus , Robert F. Dobbin , Robert Dobbin
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN in… read more
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5. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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6. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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7. Peter the Great: His Life and World
By: Robert K. Massie
4.14
Format: 909 pages, Paperback
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more
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8. Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
By: Dan Brown
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brow… read more
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9. Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
By: Jim Frederick
3.95
Format: 315 pages,
This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infa… read more
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10. World Order
By: Henry Kissinger
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more
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11. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
By: Graham Hancock , Santha Faiia
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connectin… read more
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12. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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13. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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14. Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
By: Christopher Hitchens , Aldous Huxley
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's visio… read more
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15. Diplomacy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Sec… read more
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16. Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less
By: Joseph McCormack
4.36
Format: 94 pages, ebook
Get heard by being clear and concise The only way to survive in business today is to be a lean comm… read more
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17. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War
By: Elliot Ackerman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Il 12 marzo 2034 il commodoro della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti – Sarah Hunt – si trova sul p… read more
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- military fiction
18. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
19. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
20. 2054
By: Elliot Ackerman
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more
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21. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
22. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
23. 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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- nonfiction
"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
24. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
25. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
By: Walter Russell Mead
4.22
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that o… read more
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27. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
By: Kai-Fu Lee
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a le… read more
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"Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
28. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
By: Christian Brose
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more
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- military fiction
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"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
29. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan
By: Mick Ryan
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more
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30. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
By: P.W. Singer
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter an… read more
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- military fiction
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31. Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy
By: Perry M. Smith
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List Since the first edition of Pentagon… read more
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