Kaputt
By: Curzio Malaparte , Dan Hofstadter , Cesare Foligno
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. …
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1. War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
By: Ian Morris
3.94
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society―for the better "War! . . … read more
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2. Panzer Leader
By: B.H. Liddell Hart , Heinz Guderian , Kenneth John Macksey
4.12
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
General Heinz Guderian’s revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brought Ger… read more
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3. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
By: Niall Ferguson
3.87
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity… read more
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"The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable.…"-Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
4. The War of the End of the World
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.24
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real ep… read more
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"No, life had ceased to be logical, and therefore nothing was absurd. It was life: one had to accept it as it was or kill oneself."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World
"Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World
"Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World
"It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World
5. None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
By: Joshua E.S. Phillips
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Sergeant Adam Gray made it home from Iraq only to die in his barracks. For more than three years, r… read more
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6. Kaputt
By: Curzio Malaparte , Dan Hofstadter , Cesare Foligno
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. … read more
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7. The Harlem Hellfighters
By: Max Brooks , Caanan White
3.30
Format: 107 pages,
From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, h… read more
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8. War and Turpentine
By: Stefan Hertmans , None , David McKay
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise… read more
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9. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
By: Harrison E. Salisbury
3.88
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II… read more
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10. The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
By: Janine Di Giovanni
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
n May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relatio… read more
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12. The German War: A Nation Under Arms
By: Nicholas Stargardt
4.34
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the… read more
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13. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
By: Max Hastings
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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14. Fobbit
By: David Abrams
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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15. Death on the Installment Plan
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Nightand Death on the … read more
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16. Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
By: Gregor von Rezzori
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
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17. This Kind of War
By: T.R. Fehrenbach
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition… read more
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18. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
19. 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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20. 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
21. 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
