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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 60,336 ratings — published 1645
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,289,290 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 558,374 ratings — published -500
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 16,611 ratings — published 1716
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 8,462 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 4.29 — 4,421 ratings — published 2004
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,321,537 ratings — published 2011
Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 15,991 ratings — published 1991
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,644,260 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 4.47 — 119,552 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 162,317 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 202,697 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 349,784 ratings — published 2017
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 927,236 ratings — published 2006
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.21 — 84,131 ratings — published 1986
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.35 — 4,068,677 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,709,225 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,459,197 ratings — published 1985
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 304 ratings — published 1467
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.37 — 143,220 ratings — published 2018
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 340,233 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 447,278 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 — 139,720 ratings — published 2012
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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avg rating 4.46 — 2,570,922 ratings — published 2017
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 399,415 ratings — published 2016
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 875 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 24,713 ratings — published 1957
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 300,577 ratings — published 2006
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 99,795 ratings — published 2006
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 57,278 ratings — published 2012
Matterhorn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 46,904 ratings — published 2010
What It is Like to Go to War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,747 ratings — published 2011
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 11,972 ratings — published 1995
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.52 — 881,432 ratings — published 2025
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 68,539 ratings — published 2023
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,412,584 ratings — published 2023
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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avg rating 4.38 — 624,973 ratings — published 2007
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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avg rating 4.30 — 97,954 ratings — published 2021
The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 68,465 ratings — published 2018
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 10,024 ratings — published 1899
Living the Martial Way: A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,394 ratings — published 1992
A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,789 ratings — published 2006
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 46,678 ratings — published 1981
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
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avg rating 4.47 — 163,115 ratings — published 2018
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,665,782 ratings — published 2018
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.59 — 8,711 ratings — published 2016
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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avg rating 4.36 — 192,845 ratings — published 2008
Minecraft: Combat Handbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 4,768 ratings — published 2013
“Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant awareness of one's own inevitable death, total focus on the present moment, the valuing of other people's lives above one's own, and being part of a larger religious community such as the Sangha, ummah, or church. All four of these exist in combat. The big difference is that the mystic sees heaven and the warrior sees hell. Whether combat is the dark side of the same version, or only something equivalent in intensity, I simply don't know. I do know that at the age of fifteen I had a mystical experience that scared the hell out of me and both it and combat put me into a different relationship with ordinary life and eternity.
Most of us, including me, would prefer to think of a sacred space as some light-filled wonderous place where we can feel good and find a way to shore up our psyches against death. We don't want to think that something as ugly and brutal as combat could be involved in any way with the spiritual. However, would any practicing Christian say that Calvary Hill was not a sacred space?”
― What It is Like to Go to War
Most of us, including me, would prefer to think of a sacred space as some light-filled wonderous place where we can feel good and find a way to shore up our psyches against death. We don't want to think that something as ugly and brutal as combat could be involved in any way with the spiritual. However, would any practicing Christian say that Calvary Hill was not a sacred space?”
― What It is Like to Go to War
“All right', Bubba said. '... Just remember, the only sin in battle is hesitation. So don't fucking hesitate.”
― Prayers for Rain
― Prayers for Rain
