Military Strategy: A Global History
By: Jeremy Black
3.33
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of t…
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1. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
By: Antony Beevor
3.91
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more
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- history
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- military history
- nonfiction
2. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt
4.07
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
By: None , Bela Shayevich
4.29
Format: 192 pages,
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
By: Isaiah Berlin
3.50
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
The masterly essay on Tolstoy's view of history, in which Sir Isaiah underlines a fundamental disti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Redshirts
By: John Scalzi
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more
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"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
6. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
By: John Keegan
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more
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7. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
8. 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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9. Strategy
By: B.H. Liddell Hart
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The classic book on strategy by one of the foremost military thinkers of the twentieth century, Str… read more
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10. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By: Thomas Asbridge
4.22
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more
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- nonfiction
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"The Lionheart had arrived."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
11. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.11
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbreakin… read more
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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
15. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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- history
- war
16. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
By: Antony Beevor
4.21
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
17. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- history
18. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
By: John Gray
3.54
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more
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- history
19. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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- military fiction
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- nonfiction
20. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)
By: Kyle Harper
4.21
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental rete… read more
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- history
21. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
By: Philip Freeman
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Han… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
22. The Shortest History of China
By: Linda Jaivin
4.01
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, m… read more
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- history
23. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
By: Peter Turchin
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more
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- history
24. The World According to China
By: Elizabeth C. Economy
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherew… read more
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- military fiction
- history
25. The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
By: Nick Lloyd
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military his… read more
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- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
26. Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates o… read more
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- history
27. Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation
By: Philip Matyszak
4.02
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and off… read more
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- military fiction
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- military history
- nonfiction
28. 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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29. Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.68
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacin… read more
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- history
30. Military Strategy: A Global History
By: Jeremy Black
3.33
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of t… read more
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