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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 64,663 ratings — published 1645
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as combat)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,889,239 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as combat)
avg rating 3.94 — 592,765 ratings — published -500
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as combat)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,149 ratings — published 1716
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,538 ratings — published 1975
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as combat)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,583 ratings — published 2004
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,470,999 ratings — published 2011
Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 16,562 ratings — published 1991
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,848,317 ratings — published 2010
A Hard Place: A Sergeant's Tale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published 2007
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 137,336 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.23 — 186,249 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.24 — 232,447 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 403,168 ratings — published 2017
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 332,243 ratings — published 2006
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,062,670 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 48,912 ratings — published 2010
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 12,517 ratings — published 1995
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.21 — 85,988 ratings — published 1986
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,303,221 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,216,544 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,498,766 ratings — published 1985
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
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avg rating 4.67 — 140,601 ratings — published 2024
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
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avg rating 4.64 — 170,349 ratings — published 2023
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
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avg rating 4.69 — 200,384 ratings — published 2022
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.44 — 535,414 ratings — published 2020
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 309 ratings — published 1467
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.36 — 163,976 ratings — published 2018
A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,851 ratings — published 2006
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 354,543 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 539,620 ratings — published 2018
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 143,335 ratings — published 2012
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 439,098 ratings — published 2016
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 918 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,903 ratings — published 1957
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,211,089 ratings — published 2007
What It is Like to Go to War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,986 ratings — published 2011
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,268,721 ratings — published 2025
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
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avg rating 4.54 — 235,225 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.39 — 287,483 ratings — published 2021
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
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avg rating 4.48 — 353,154 ratings — published 2021
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 7,868 ratings — published 2019
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 83,371 ratings — published 2023
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,843,925 ratings — published 2023
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 297,042 ratings — published 2019
The Combat Codes (The Combat Codes Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,994 ratings — published 2021
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 714,277 ratings — published 2007
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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avg rating 4.28 — 113,448 ratings — published 2021
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 10,704 ratings — published 1899
“Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the Vietnam combat soldier was nineteen. In many other countries boys are conscripted for military service while barely in their teens. Similarly, the period of highest risk for rape is in late adolescence. Half of all victims are aged twenty or younger at the time they are raped; three-quarters are between the ages of thirteen and twenty-six. The period of greatest psychological vulnerability is also in reality the period of greatest traumatic exposure, for both young men and young women. Rape and combat might thus be considered complementary social rites of initiation into the coercive violence at the foundation of adult society. They are the paradigmatic forms of trauma for women and men.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.”
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