11 must-read war books like Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War by Mark Danner

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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War

By: Mark Danner

3.37

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

In “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable…

If you liked the war plot in Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War by Mark Danner , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Transfer of Power (Mitch Rapp, #3)

By: Vince Flynn

3.73

Format: None pages,

On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officia… read more

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2. 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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3. Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp, #2)

By: Vince Flynn

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Rapp hunts terrorists responsible for Pan Am attack on 270 civilians. But on his next target, gunme… read more

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4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , Simon Armitage

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strang… read more

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5. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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6. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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7. The Third Option (Mitch Rapp, #4)

By: Vince Flynn

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mitch Rapp, CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission. His target, a Germa… read more

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8. Phantom Orbit

By: David Ignatius

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature. David… read more

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9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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11. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

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  • military fiction
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13. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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14. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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15. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

By: Ty Seidule

4.42

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."

-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

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16. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

By: Zena Hitz

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

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17. Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare

By: Seth G. Jones

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns tha… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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18. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

By: Mary Elise Sarotte

4.25

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

By: Hal Brands

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

20. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

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21. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

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22. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

By: Samuel Moyn

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis     “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq

By: Robert Draper

4.30

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reck… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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25. America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators

By: Jacob Heilbrunn

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A leading observer of the right explains the long, disturbing history behind Donald Trump’s admirat… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

By: Michael McDevitt

4.05

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is … read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars by Andrew J. Bacevich

27. Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars

By: Andrew J. Bacevich

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on wha… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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28. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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29. Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War

By: Mark Danner

3.37

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

In “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Targeted: Beirut — The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror by Jack Carr

30. Targeted: Beirut — The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

By: Jack Carr

4.65

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that chan… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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31. The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3)

By: David McCloskey

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other … read more

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17 Top history books like Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War by Mark Danner

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

Peter Zeihan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

Eliot Higgins

4.12

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Transform Your Habits

Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War with China

David Wise

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Peter Pomerantsev

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

Pete Blaber

4.33

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