Thank You for Your Service
By: David Finkel
3.58
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Romeo Dallaire and an introduction by Carol Off. No journalist has reckoned with…
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1. 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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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- psychology
- nonfiction
"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
2. 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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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
"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
3. What It is Like to Go to War
By: Karl Marlantes
4.00
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book abo… read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy."-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
"The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission."-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
"Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body"-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
"Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death."-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
4. SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
By: Howard E. Wasdin , Stephen Templin
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
The New York Times best selling book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six - the covert squad that ki… read more
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- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
- war
5. The Great Escape
By: Paul Brickhill
4.03
Format: 320 pages,
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hun… read more
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- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
- war
6. Vietnam: A History
By: Stanley Karnow
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced account we have."--Boston Globe. "Superb, balance… read more
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- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
- war
7. Thank You for Your Service
By: David Finkel
3.58
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Romeo Dallaire and an introduction by Carol Off. No journalist has reckoned with… read more
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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. The March
By: E.L. Doctorow
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia t… read more
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- war
9. Redeployment
By: Phil Klay
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to unde… read more
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- military fiction
- war
- audiobook
10. The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private… read more
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11. A History of Warfare
By: John Keegan
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse so… read more
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12. Inside the Third Reich
By: Albert Speer
4.23
Format: None pages,
Written by Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, the man who kept Germany armed and th… read more
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13. Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him
By: Eric Blehm
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team Six, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary ope… read more
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14. The Forever War
By: Dexter Filkins
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever Waris the definitive account of America's conflict… read more
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15. From Manchester to the Arctic
By: Sheena Billett
4.31
Format: 261 pages, ebook
In the challenging but rapidly changing 1970s, Connie Sanders, a broken-hearted nurse, flees to the… read more
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"The first wave of homesickness caught Connie by surprise. She had not heard or felt its approach until it hit her hard, knocking her to the ground."-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic
"As she was putting her boots on Daisy threw a barb over her shoulder that struck Connie right in the middle of her chest. ‘Grow up, Connie! This place is not for faint-hearted romantics!"-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic
"I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell whe…"-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic
"It was almost 3 a.m. before Connie got into bed. Sipping cocoa in the cold daylight and listening to the silence, only punctuated by the distant barking of dogs, she began to wonder what she had done…"-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic
16. 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)
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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- nonfiction
- history
- war
18. 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
19. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"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
20. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
By: Susan Rowland
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more
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"The fire on the mountain."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
21. 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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- war
"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
