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The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18 average rating, · 86.8k ratings
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Mitchell Zuckoff
4.31 average rating, · 26.1k ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
David Halberstam
4.23 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Max Hastings
4.32 average rating, · 8.3k ratings
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The Good Soldiers
David Finkel
4.22 average rating, · 8.8k ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
4.09 average rating, · 8.1k ratings
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The Full Circle for Mick
Michael G. Kramer
4.33 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.03 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse
4.23 average rating, · 6.1k ratings
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Michael B. Oren
4.17 average rating, · 6.3k ratings
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45
Ian Kershaw
4.15 average rating, · 5k ratings
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
Jeremy Scahill
4.08 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
Eugene Rogan
4.17 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Fredrik Logevall
4.43 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Vietnam War
Geoffrey C. Ward
4.51 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Niall Ferguson
4.09 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Strategy
B.H. Liddell Hart
4.08 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
Max Hastings
4.38 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
Victor Davis Hanson
4.07 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Frances FitzGerald
4.10 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
Bing West
4.15 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
Andrew J. Bacevich
4.24 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
David Kilcullen
4.05 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization
Nicholson Baker
4.06 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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