The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet Afghan War
By: Lester W. Grau , Ali Ahmad Jalali
3.63
Format: 371 pages,
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1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels
By: Jules Verne
3.89
Format: 739 pages, Hardcover
Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with advent… read more
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2. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
By: Erik Larson
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more
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"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
3. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
By: Michael Shaara
4.33
Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more
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- military fiction
- war
"Never let them see you run."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
4. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more
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- politics
"Drop dead-but first get permit"-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
5. The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
By: Pete Blaber
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a commander in Delta Force-the most elite counter-terrorist organization in the world-Pete Blabe… read more
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- history
- military fiction
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- military history
- nonfiction
"The ultimate goal of this book is to share what I consider to be life-saving and life-changing lessons that I was fortunate enough to learn as a key participant in many of recent history’s most impac…"-Pete Blaber, The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
6. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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7. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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- history
- military fiction
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- military history
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
8. One Soldier's War in Chechnya
By: Nick Allen , Arkady Babchenko , Аркадий Бабченко
4.07
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A vivid, autobiographical account of what life was like for a young soldier in Russia's Chechen war… read more
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- russia
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- war
- military history
- nonfiction
9. The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
By: David M. Glantz , Lester W. Grau
3.87
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
This collection of vignettes was written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fig… read more
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- russia
- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
10. The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet Afghan War
By: Lester W. Grau , Ali Ahmad Jalali
3.63
Format: 371 pages,
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- military fiction
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- military history
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11. 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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- nonfiction
- history
"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
12. Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan Universe, #3)
By: Tom Clancy
3.57
Format: None pages,
Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bo… read more
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13. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
By: Saul D. Alinsky
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicalsis Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals … read more
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14. Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
By: Elliot Carlson , Rear Adm. Donald "Mac" Showers USN (Ret.)
3.93
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
This is the first biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, the Officer in Charge of Station Hypo the U.S. … read more
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15. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
By: Steven Pressfield
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more
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16. 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
17. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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18. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
19. Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
By: Orson Scott Card
4.10
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning … read more
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"The piggies were not to be disturbed-"-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"Darkness bound them closer than light."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
20. The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4)
By: Tom Clancy
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so… read more
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21. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
By: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice
4.03
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States… read more
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"But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going."-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers."-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
"The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pa…"-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
22. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
23. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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24. Rainbow Six (Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
By: Tom Clancy
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At its heart is ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, now the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task… read more
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25. All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque , A.W. Wheen
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World W… read more
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26. The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)
By: Dan Simmons
4.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forev… read more
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27. The Right Stuff
By: Tom Wolfe
4.08
Format: 432 pages,
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more
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28. The Way of Men
By: Jack Donovan
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Way of Men answers the question: "What is Masculinity?" The so-called experts give the answers … read more
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29. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
30. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
By: Rachel Maddow
4.35
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of M… read more
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"A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into t…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
"It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy makers missed. But it would be unfair to them, an…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
31. Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel
By: Pyotr Wrangel
4.48
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Russia, 1917. As World War I drags on, political turmoil slowly paralyzes the Empire. The Czar abdi… read more
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