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! . . …
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1. Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq
By: Bob Woodward , None
3.70
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, … read more
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2. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more
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3. 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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4. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the a… read more
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"Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman, war remains with us and within us, impossible to forget but difficult to remember."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
5. To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War
By: Jeff Shaara
4.25
Format: 636 pages, Paperback
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil … read more
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6. Kaputt
By: Curzio Malaparte , Dan Hofstadter , Cesare Foligno
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. … read more
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7. Charlotte Gray
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Birdsongcomes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scotti… 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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9. Bamboo People
By: Mitali Perkins
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Bang!A side door bursts open. Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles. I sh… read more
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10. Everybody Sees the Ants
By: A.S. King
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vi… read more
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11. Year of the Jungle
By: Suzanne Collins , James Proimos
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the… read more
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12. To Hell and Back
By: Tom Brokaw , Audie Murphy
4.25
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in … read more
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"Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever sha…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
"Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with t…"-Tom Brokaw, To Hell and Back
13. Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
By: Hans von Luck
4.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A stunning look at World War II from the other side... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Ha… read more
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14. The Three Witches and The Master
By: Max Nowaz
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more
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"Where’s my uncle?"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
15. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
By: Yvonne Korshak
4.29
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more
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"Temples are for the gods,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
16. Burned Out
By: Dean Mafako
4.30
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more
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"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"-Dean Mafako, Burned Out
17. 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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18. 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
19. 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
20. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 470 pages, ebook
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more
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"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
21. Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
By: Gregory S. Works
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Don’t let family history set the course for your future. Triumph was strategically designed to help… read more
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"Choose joy."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
"Be okay with having health-essential boundaries."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
"God has been there with us every step of the way."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
"Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
