War: How Conflict Shaped Us
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Is peace an aberration? The bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an…
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By: Bob Woodward , None
3.70
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2. Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
By: Richard McGregor
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Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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3. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
By: Niall Ferguson
3.87
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
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4. To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
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3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
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5. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
By: Harrison E. Salisbury
3.88
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
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By: Catherine Merridale
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9. Year of the Jungle
By: Suzanne Collins , James Proimos
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
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10. Why the Allies Won
By: Richard Overy
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Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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12. The Battle for the Falklands
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4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. Engineers of Victory: The Making of the War Machine That Defeated the Nazis
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16. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
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17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
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18. 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
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19. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
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20. War: How Conflict Shaped Us
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
By: James Shapiro
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Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about o… read more
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