No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
By: Anand Gopal
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist National Book Award in Nonfiction finalist Helen Bern…
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1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
By: Max Hastings
4.06
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more
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"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
2. My War Gone By, I Miss It So
By: Anthony Loyd
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Nothing can prepare you for Anthony Loyd 's portrait of war. It is the story of the unspeakable ter… read more
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"Evil: if I had encountered it before then it was so well disguised that I saw it as something else – an old woman walking alone down a track crying; a distant plume of smoke from a village in the hil…"-Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So
3. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
By: Chris Hedges
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment… read more
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"There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege."-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living."-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have ma…"-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a socie…"-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
4. Drift
By: Rachel Maddow
4.07
Format: 288 pages,
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792… read more
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"It apparently took a lot of layers of Brown & Root management and administration to turn a $14 sheet of plywood into an $86 sheet of plywood"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
"When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at wa…"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
"The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Ec…"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
"Carter's renowned 1979 "malaise speech" [...] is little remembered for what it actually was: a call to arms for fixing our nation's dire energy future. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never …"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
5. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
By: Thomas Barfield
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this vo… read more
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6. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
By: Joby Warrick
3.64
Format: None pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising i… read more
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7. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
By: Anand Gopal
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist National Book Award in Nonfiction finalist Helen Bern… read more
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8. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
By: Steve Coll
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Warsis the most… read more
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9. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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10. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
By: John Keegan
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more
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11. The Last Battle
By: Cornelius Ryan
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was … read more
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12. The Polymorph
By: Max Nowaz
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more
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"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
13. 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
14. 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
15. The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
By: Robert Reid
4.30
Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early 16th century in the city of Mora, capital of Kermin, a cruel new ruler has come to pow… read more
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"Raimund, we must promise each other that if one of us leaves Mora it must be both. We must leave together."-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
"At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince."-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
"Rafe smiled again. “I think Aleana can teach you how to work in a team and maybe you can teach her to be less reckless."-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
"Audun, there is something I must now explain to you. You are the illegitimate son of Alberon, who now calls himself Emperor of the North."-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
16. Magenta
By: John Payton Foden
4.27
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more
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"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan, please, get to work. Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes. I do. Yo…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed. They silently passed…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
17. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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18. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
By: Steve Coll
4.21
Format: 779 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book A… read more
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19. SMILES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Silly Seasonal Short Stories
By: Nancy O'Meara
4.30
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
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20. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
By: Craig Whitlock
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more
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"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
21. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
By: William J. Burns
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presid… read more
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