The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
By: Janine Di Giovanni
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
n May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relatio…
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1. The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
By: Dick Couch , Cliff Hollenbeck
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toug… read more
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"In his Close Quarter Defense School training, Duane Dieter tells the platoon SEALs, “The truth of combat is; to fight is to risk death."-Dick Couch, The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
"Set the highest example. Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection is impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that."-Dick Couch, The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
2. The Thirty Years War
By: Anthony Grafton , C.V. Wedgwood
4.18
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as … read more
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"The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid."-Anthony Grafton, The Thirty Years War
3. The First Casualty
By: Ben Elton
3.94
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German … read more
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"Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"But these are only words and probably convey only a fraction of their meaning to the hearers. They shudder and it is forgotten."-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"Don't you just love the army? They take a fellow who's been turned into a catatonic mute by being shelled from here to Christmas and say he's not yet been properly diagnosed but he seems a bit nervou…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
"I'm twenty-two and a woman. One of the ways men diminish women's status and our contribution whilst simultaneously entrenching their quasi-paternal male authority is to call us girls. Girls go to sch…"-Ben Elton, The First Casualty
4. 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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5. Yellow Star
By: Jennifer Roy
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
The niece of Syvia Perlmutter, one of only twelve child survivors of the Lodz ghetto in Poland, sha… read more
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6. War and Turpentine
By: Stefan Hertmans , None , David McKay
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise… read more
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7. 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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8. Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers
By: Larry Alexander
4.56
Format: 200 pages,
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9. The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
By: Janine Di Giovanni
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
n May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relatio… read more
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10. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
By: Phillip Hoose
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nati… 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. Fives and Twenty-Fives
By: Michael Pitre
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It's the rule-always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possib… read more
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13. 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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14. The Campaigns of Alexander
By: Aubrey de Sélincourt , Arrian , None
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred y… read more
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15. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
By: Günter K. Koschorrek
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more
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16. Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner, #2)
By: Deborah Ellis
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In Parvana's Journey, the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's fathe… read more
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17. Black Dove, White Raven
By: Elizabeth Wein
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A story of survival, subterfuge, espionage, and identity. Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery… read more
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18. The Baker's Daughter
By: Sarah McCoy
3.97
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for h… read more
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"People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore."-Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter
"Alors, où aller quand votre maison ne constituait plus un abri - quand le monde n'avait plus aucun sens ? A quel moment prendre la décision de partir ou de rester ?"-Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter
"We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of t…"-Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter
19. The Last Jew of Treblinka
By: Chil Rajchman
4.35
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
Before me sits a young woman. I cut off her hair, thick and beautiful, and she grasps my hand and b… read more
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"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
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"I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!"-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed. I no longer know where I am in the world."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
20. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
By: Michael Walzer
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the … read more
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21. Hitler
By: Ian Kershaw
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitleris a new… read more
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22. On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
By: Loren W. Christensen , Dave Grossman , Gavin de Becker
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle ? the impact … read more
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23. Last Train to Istanbul
By: Ayşe Kulin , None
3.87
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ank… read more
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24. Black Rain
By: John Bester , Masuji Ibuse
3.92
Format: 32 pages,
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25. 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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"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
26. 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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27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Granice marzeń. O państwach nieuznawanych
By: Tomasz Grzywaczewski
3.83
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Od Donbasu przez Naddniestrze, Abchazję i Osetię Południową aż po Górski Karabach. Mieszkańcy posts… read more
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31. Gorączka złota. Jak upadała Wenezuela
By: Tomáš Forró
4.29
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Wenezuela jeszcze w drugiej połowie XX wieku była jednym z najzamożniejszych państw Ameryki Południ… read more
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