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On War
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3.96 avg rating — 14,540 ratings
"The author uses a dialectical approach to understanding war without being prescriptive."
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War in European History
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3.96 avg rating — 622 ratings
"This book is excellent, as is anything by this author."
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times
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3.86 avg rating — 182 ratings
"The author discusses the limitations of emerging technologies—specifically, he argues that instead of taming our environment, technology has further complicated it."
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The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War
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4.03 avg rating — 123 ratings
"This book helps connect military action to strategy."
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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3.94 avg rating — 40,590 ratings
"The Greek historian shows that the drivers of war—fear, honor, self-interest—haven’t changed over time."
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Strange Defeat
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3.99 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940
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4.10 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
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4.05 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War
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4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
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3.86 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War
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4.14 avg rating — 9,815 ratings
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Patton: A Genius for War
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4.25 avg rating — 4,340 ratings
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Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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4.13 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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The Korean War
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3.84 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Peloponnesian War
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4.13 avg rating — 5,299 ratings
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
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4.19 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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Washington's Crossing
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4.16 avg rating — 15,282 ratings
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George Washington and the American Military Tradition (Lamar Memorial Lectures, No 27)
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3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789
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3.92 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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4.40 avg rating — 33,918 ratings
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The Franco-Prussian War
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4.09 avg rating — 332 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 22,864 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 15,890 ratings
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
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4.48 avg rating — 10,868 ratings
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A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
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4.28 avg rating — 1,396 ratings
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This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
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4.18 avg rating — 4,281 ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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4.23 avg rating — 9,333 ratings
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Red Thunder Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam
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3.84 avg rating — 91 ratings
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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4.34 avg rating — 32,967 ratings
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Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
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3.97 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
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4.22 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers
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4.14 avg rating — 294 ratings
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The Longest War: A History of the War on Terror and the Battles with Al Qaeda Since 9/11
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3.97 avg rating — 917 ratings
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The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future – A Must-Read History of the Kim Dynasty's Regime and Collapse
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3.94 avg rating — 1,888 ratings
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The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
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4.16 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
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3.77 avg rating — 223 ratings
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