The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
By: Mark Mazzetti
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's…
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1. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
By: Keith Lowe
4.22
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for anot… read more
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- military history
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"Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo."-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
"While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on the grounds that what Germans in eastern Europe suffe…"-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
"The rationing system that was set up in Britain at the outbreak of the hostilities was as revolutionary as anything the Communists could have dreamed up. Almost every basic item of food was rationed …"-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
2. 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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- war
- military history
- nonfiction
3. 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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- history
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4. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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- war
5. In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
By: Tobias Wolff , None
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. 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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7. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
By: Mark Mazzetti
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's… read more
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- espionage
- history
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- war
- military history
- nonfiction
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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- espionage
- history
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10. Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant a… read more
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11. Footnotes in Gaza
By: Joe Sacco
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the … read more
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12. Strange Meeting
By: Susan Hill
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. 'He was af… read more
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- war
13. The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
By: M.T. Anderson
3.54
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of cl… read more
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"At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you."-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
"I went to him & put my Hand upon his Shoulder. Said he to me, “God forgive me. Her Name — I never knew her Name."-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
"Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; t…"-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
14. Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
By: Karl Braungart
4.31
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine you find yourself losing bits of time. Almost like a dream you only slightly remember. Envi… read more
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"Well, here’s the shocker,"-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
"Yes, I never expected to see you!"-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
"Their war maneuvers excluded shame."-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
"I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook."-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
15. 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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- history
- war
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more
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20. 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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21. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
By: Paul Scharre
3.80
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea… read more
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"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating i…"-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
