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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.49 avg rating — 46,426 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 555,957 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
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3.93 avg rating — 15,377 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.10 avg rating — 509,118 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.20 avg rating — 6,969 ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
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4.13 avg rating — 6,105 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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4.24 avg rating — 24,401 ratings
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,267 ratings
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Dodging Shells
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4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Iraq War 2003: What Really Happened Behind The Political Scenes
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4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 66,766 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
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4.34 avg rating — 25,886 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
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4.27 avg rating — 21,361 ratings
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A History of Warfare
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3.98 avg rating — 4,531 ratings
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
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4.13 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
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4.39 avg rating — 11,920 ratings
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The Good Soldiers
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4.22 avg rating — 8,605 ratings
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Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
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3.86 avg rating — 101 ratings
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War in Human Civilization
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4.37 avg rating — 328 ratings
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War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa
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3.84 avg rating — 122 ratings
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
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4.11 avg rating — 11,929 ratings
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On War
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3.96 avg rating — 14,321 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.97 avg rating — 912 ratings
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A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture
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4.17 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity
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3.91 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Her Privates We
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3.99 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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An Ice-Cream War
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3.92 avg rating — 4,419 ratings
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A History of Bombing
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4.31 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
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3.66 avg rating — 5,359 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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4.33 avg rating — 40,351 ratings
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On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
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3.95 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Not in the Wind, Earthquake, or Fire
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Jackboot Britain
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3.67 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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3.99 avg rating — 13,695 ratings
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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4.31 avg rating — 31,085 ratings
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The Second World War: A People's History
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3.74 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne In World War II
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4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Art of War
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4.05 avg rating — 8,940 ratings
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War in European History
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3.96 avg rating — 615 ratings
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The Pursuit of Power
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4.07 avg rating — 605 ratings
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War
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3.75 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare
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3.86 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War
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3.85 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Firing Line
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4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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War: Identities in Conflict 1300-2000
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
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3.88 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Humanity in Warfare
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Causes of War
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3.82 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
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3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
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4.04 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Warfare, Diplomacy and Politics: Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare
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3.81 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age
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3.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Masculinities in politics and war: Gendering modern history
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
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Great Military Disasters: A Historical Survey of Military Incompetence
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3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Pacifism in Britain 1914-1945: The Defining of a Faith
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Politics of Dissent: Pacifism in France, 1919-1939
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Letters to Lily: On How the World Works
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3.49 avg rating — 98 ratings
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War and Our World
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3.58 avg rating — 152 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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3.88 avg rating — 34,514 ratings
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Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
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3.65 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Darwinism, War and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
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4.06 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
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The Conduct Of War, 1789-1961: A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct
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3.79 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Psychology of Jingoism
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Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
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4.08 avg rating — 3,238 ratings
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A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
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4.30 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets & Playwrights
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Routledge Atlas of the First World War
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3.93 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Death of a Hero
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4.03 avg rating — 722 ratings
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The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Under Fire
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3.86 avg rating — 2,298 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.15 avg rating — 20,792 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 346,921 ratings
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Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
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3.80 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Missing of the Somme
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3.86 avg rating — 818 ratings
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
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3.76 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Experience of World War I
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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France and the Great War (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 26)
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3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Blood Of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
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4.32 avg rating — 151 ratings
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In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes
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4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The War for South Africa
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3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Also, while a fine book, I didn't think Undaunted Courage was about war, but about an expedition of discovery.