The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
By: Alistair Urquhart
3.80
Format: 245 pages,
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He…
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1. War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
By: Ian Morris
3.94
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society―for the better "War! . . … read more
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- history
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2. Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Ranulph Fiennes has traveled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth. In the process… read more
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3. The Tunnels of Cu Chi
By: Tom Mangold , John Penycate
4.05
Format: 302 pages, Mass Market Paperback
One of the more remarkable but little-known campaigns of the Vietnam War was fought inside the 200 … read more
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"I could smell the Viet Cong, really, I could smell Charlie. It wasn’t just his body sweat or the urine. There were times when I could hear the breathing, real quiet; you could hear a person breathe, …"-Tom Mangold, The Tunnels of Cu Chi
4. Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter
By: Steven Rinella
4.42
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of humanity’s oldest pursuit and its relevance today Steven Rinella grew up in Twin… read more
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5. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
By: Niall Ferguson
3.87
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity… read more
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"The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable.…"-Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
6. Beasts of No Nation
By: Uzodinma Iweala
3.79
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures … read more
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"And now the woman is praying to God............... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country."-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"I am also thinking as I am rubbing the mud off my feets and then folding my arm up in my lap how it is strange that all of these men are always looking at this whole country on map and acting as if i…"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it …"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never st…"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
7. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
By: Roger Crowley
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to … read more
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8. The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
By: Alistair Urquhart
3.80
Format: 245 pages,
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- military fiction
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
9. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
10. Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
By: Donovan Campbell
4.14
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commi… read more
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"I became amazed at how much my men would tolerate if someone just took the time to explain the why of it all to them."-Donovan Campbell, Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
"You can only pretend that you're already dead and thus free yourself up to focus on three things: 1) finding and killing the enemy, 2) communicating the situation and resulting actions to adjacent un…"-Donovan Campbell, Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
11. Gone to Soldiers
By: Marge Piercy
4.07
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and fo… read more
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- world war ii
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12. Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
By: Paul M. Barrett
3.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Based on fifteen years of research, Glockis the riveting story of the weapon that has become known … read more
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13. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
By: Frederick Downs
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zonetells the story of the plato… read more
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14. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
By: Slavomir Rawicz
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia th… read more
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15. The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
By: Warren Fellows
2.75
Format: None pages,
In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was c… read more
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16. Christmas Eve, 1914
By: James Scott , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
In 1914, the war which was to have been wrapped up by Christmas had - in reality - only just begun,… read more
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17. We Stand On Guard
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Steve Skroce , Fonografiks , None
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . SAGA writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN teams with artistic l… read more
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18. My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (My Dear I Wanted to Tell You #1)
By: Louisa Young
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
The lives of two very different couples are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stu… read more
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19. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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20. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
21. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
22. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
By: Steve Stewart-Williams
4.25
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human a… read more
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- history
23. Rambling Man: My Life on the Road
By: Billy Connolly
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met … read more
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24. The Art of Resilience
By: Ross Edgley
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience… read more
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"Esteem needs. Maslow classified these into two categories: Esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence). The desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige).…"-Ross Edgley, The Art of Resilience
25. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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26. Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
By: Cameron R. Hanes
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve you… read more
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"This is about abolishing the ego and taking the first step toward becoming the real you!"-Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
27. Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
By: David Goggins
4.44
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
This is not a self-help book. It's a wake-up call! Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins' smash hit memoi… read more
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"Whatever it takes for you to believe that you're better than good enough to achieve your dreams is what you must do. And remember, your greatness is not tied to any outcome. It is found in the valian…"-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
"We all owe it ourselves to stand for something. Principles give us a foundation — solid ground we can trust and build on as we continue to redefine what's possible in our own lives. Sure, some will b…"-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
"Back in SEAL training, I loved when people froze up and quit. I felt it elevated me in some way, but that was ego-driven immaturity and poor leadership. These days, I consider my business to make eve…"-David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
28. SAS great escapes
By: Damien Lewis
4.26
Format: 10 pages, Audible Audio
No food. No water. Out of ammo. Safety is south. But between there and here is 150 miles of barren … read more
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29. Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more
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30. Quitters Never Win
By: Michael Bisping
4.54
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Some people are born to be a certain thing.And I was a born fighter.At the age of eight, Michael Bi… read more
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31. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
By: Ryan Holiday
4.21
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more
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