The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
By: David Halberstam
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY…
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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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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
"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. A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
By: Philip Caputo
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series T… read more
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- american history
- history
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- war
- military history
- nonfiction
"The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
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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- history
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- war
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- 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
4. 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
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"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
5. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
By: Steve Sheinkin
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
6. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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- politics
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
7. 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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8. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph… read more
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- american history
- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
9. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
By: Antony Beevor
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
10. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
By: David Halberstam
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
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. Flags of Our Fathers
By: James D. Bradley , Ron Powers
3.50
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Captures the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag … read more
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13. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
By: Bảo Ninh , None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam W… read more
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14. Dispatches
By: Michael Herr
4.22
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more
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- american history
- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
"for years now there had been no country here but the war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
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. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
By: Hampton Sides
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. T… read more
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17. 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
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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
18. 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
19. 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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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
"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
20. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
By: Hampton Sides
4.57
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle… read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
21. George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
By: David L. Roll
4.45
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall—America’s most distinguished soldier–statesman … read more
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