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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden
4.31 average rating, · 70k ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Rick Atkinson
4.30 average rating, · 23.5k ratings
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
William Craig
4.24 average rating, · 14.6k ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
John Toland
4.30 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Max Hastings
4.28 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Jonathan Parshall
4.49 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Is Paris Burning?
Larry Collins
4.15 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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The Crimean War: A History
Orlando Figes
4.08 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
Harrison E. Salisbury
4.18 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
Catherine Merridale
4.07 average rating, · 4k ratings
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
Alistair Horne
4.29 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Alistair Horne
4.24 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
Adam Zamoyski
4.37 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific
William Craig
4.34 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945
Richard Overy
4.21 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Anna Reid
4.17 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
Ronald H. Spector
4.08 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Street Without Joy
Bernard B. Fall
4.22 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
Bernard B. Fall
4.30 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
Josh Dean
4.19 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Stephen R. Platt
4.22 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England
Juliet Barker
4.14 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
Sean McMeekin
4.30 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
William R. Trotter
4.15 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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