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Chain of Fire by Peter Hart Chain of Fire: Campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-98 Hart, Peter *
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Kashmir at the Crossroads by Sumantra Bose Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict Bose, Sumantra
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Krithia by Mat McLachlan Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli McLachlan, Mat
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A Campaign of Giants—The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2 by A. Wilson Greene A Campaign of Giants—The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill Greene, A. Wilson
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The Secret Expedition by Geert van Uythoven The Secret Expedition: The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland 1799 (From Reason to Revolution)
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Saipan by James H. Hallas Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II
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Hallas, James H.
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Defeat In Detail by Edward J. Erickson Defeat In Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913
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The Root by Eric Hammel The Root: The Marines in Beirut, August 1982-February 1984
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Endpapers by Alexander Wolff Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
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Rebels at Sea by Eric Jay Dolin Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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Walking Among Pharaohs by Peter der Manuelian Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology Der Manuelian, Peter
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Napoleon by Michael Broers Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
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1948 by Benny Morris 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
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Pax by Tom Holland Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
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Eighteen Days in October by Uri Kaufman Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East
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Firepower by Paul Lockhart Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
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The Other Great Game by Sheila Miyoshi Jager The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
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Jager, Sheila Miyoshi
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Bismarck's War by Rachel Chrastil Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
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Chrastil, Rachel
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Kriegies by Kristen Alexander Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III
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Armada by Colin Martin Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588
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The Gettysburg Campaign by Edwin B. Coddington The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command
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To Start a War by Robert Draper To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
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The Darkest Days of the War by Peter Cozzens The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka & Corinth
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And There Was Light by Jon Meacham And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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Mosquito Empires by John Robert McNeill Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
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McNeill, John Robert
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Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov Diary of an Invasion
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Exodus from the Alamo by Phillip Thomas Tucker Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth
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The Road to Dien Bien Phu by Christopher E. Goscha The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
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Goscha, Christopher E.
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The Earth Is All That Lasts by Mark Lee Gardner The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
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Rampage by James M. Scott Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
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Scott, James M.
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