Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
By: Bernard B. Fall , Robertson Dean
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambition…
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1. 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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2. Washington's Crossing
By: David Hackett Fischer
4.15
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A power… read more
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"Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
"Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
3. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
By: Neil Sheehan
4.24
Format: 896 pages, Paperback
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illu… read more
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"Malcolm Browne managed to take a photograph of Arnett [AP's Peter Arnett] standing behind Halberstam for protection a moment later, just before another plainclothesman sneaked up behind Browne and sm…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"Lieutenant Calley, who herded many of his victims into an irrigation ditch and filled it with their corpses, was the only officer or soldier to be convicted of a crime. He was charged with personally…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"The monks fought back in a Vietnamese way. On the morning of June 11, 1963, a seventy-three-year-old monk named Quang Duc sat down in the middle of a Saigon intersection a few blocks from Ambassador …"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"He had scribbled a note in pencil giving Patton authority to assume command of the four American divisions in Tunisia the moment he landed there, and Patton had taken off again directly for the front…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
4. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
By: Alistair Horne
4.29
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The … read more
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5. Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
By: Doug Stanton
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the major motion picture 12 Strong from Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Chris Hemsw… read more
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6. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
By: Bernard B. Fall , Robertson Dean
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
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7. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
By: Tony Judt
4.37
Format: 933 pages, Paperback
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more
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"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
8. Infantry Attacks
By: Erwin Rommel , Manfred Rommel , Gustave E. Kiddé
3.80
Format: 384 pages,
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9. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
By: M.T. Anderson
4.35
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the l… read more
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"Some love is so powerful after all, that it must always include sadness, because encrypted within it is the knowledge that someday it will come to an end."-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the ones who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator ... It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes whe…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"Gradually, like the emigration of an insidious, phantom population, Leningrad belonged more to the dead than to the living. The dead watched over streets and sat in snow-swamped buses. Whole apartmen…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"This is a tale of microfilm canisters and secret police, of Communists and capitalists, of battles lost and wars won. It is the tale of a utopian dream that turned into a dystopian nightmare. It is t…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
10. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
By: Elizabeth M. Norman
4.27
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," h… read more
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11. Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
By: Mark Bowden
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller "An extraordinary feat of journalism . . . full of emotion and color."--K… read more
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12. A Soldier of the Great War
By: Mark Helprin
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at wa… read more
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13. Dogs of War
By: Rico Renzi , Guy Major , Nathan Fox , Sheila Keenan
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sheila Keenan's captivating stories, paired with Nathan Fox's stunning art, bring the heroic milita… read more
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14. Andersonville
By: MacKinlay Kantor
4.23
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration … read more
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15. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more
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16. In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down
By: Michael J. Durant , Steven Hartov
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over Somalia, Michael Durant was shot down with a… read more
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17. We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
By: Wendy Pearlman
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievic… read more
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18. This Kind of War
By: T.R. Fehrenbach
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition… read more
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19. Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
By: None , None
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of … read more
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20. 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
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"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
21. 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
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"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
22. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
By: Barry Kirwan
4.23
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more
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"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
23. 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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24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. On the Horizon
By: Lois Lowry
4.27
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
From Lois Lowry comes an account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Har… read more
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28. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)
By: Behcet Kaya
4.37
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more
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"Swamp."-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)
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"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)
29. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
30. Stalingrad
By: Vasily Grossman
4.28
Format: 1088 pages, Paperback
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate has been hailed as a twentieth-century War and Peace. However, Life… read more
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"But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. The…"-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad
"There are people who like to ascribe only the basest of motives to the actions of others. This is not always because they act basely themselves; often they would not dream of acting as they suspect o…"-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad
31. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
By: Fredrik Logevall
4.42
Format: 864 pages, Kindle Edition
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought o… read more
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