The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944
By: George Blackburn
4.41
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
In the weeks after D-Day, the level of artillery action in Normandy was unprecedented. In what was …
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1. Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
By: David Stahel
4.20
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on … read more
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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Things aren't different. Things are things."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
3. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
4. John A: The Man Who Made Us (The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald - Volume One: 1815-1867)
By: Richard Gwyn
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our bes… read more
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5. 20th Century Ghosts
By: Christopher Golden , Joe Hill
3.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and kno… read more
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6. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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7. Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II
By: Bruce Henderson
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Hero Foundcomes the incredible true story of one of the greatest mil… read more
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8. Matterhorn
By: Karl Marlantes
3.30
Format: 107 pages,
A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly dec… read more
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9. I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and… read more
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"Su misma superioridad lo perdió"-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
"There is no Master but the Master,"-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
"No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno"-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
"There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
10. The First World War
By: John Keegan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more
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11. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
By: William R. Trotter
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
In 1939, tiny Finland waged war - the kind of war that spawns legends - against the mighty Soviet U… read more
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12. Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944
By: John Keegan , Ted Barris
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians - at sea, in the air, and on the ground - joined the long-… read more
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13. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more
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14. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
By: Daniel Yergin
0.00
Format: None pages,
The Prizerecounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth and power that has al… read more
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15. The Long Ships
By: Frans G. Bengtsson , Michael Meyer
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The book is set in the late 10th century & follows the adventures of Orm ("serpent"), called "Red" … read more
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16. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
17. Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
By: John C. McManus
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen… read more
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18. To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
By: John C. McManus
4.59
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McMan… read more
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19. Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
By: John C. McManus
4.47
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
In Fire and Fortitude--winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History--John C. McManus pre… read more
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20. The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944
By: George Blackburn
4.41
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
In the weeks after D-Day, the level of artillery action in Normandy was unprecedented. In what was … read more
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21. Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
By: Mark Zuehlke
4.10
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe’s largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed… read more
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