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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.45 avg rating — 38,342 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
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3.92 avg rating — 14,256 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.96 avg rating — 447,305 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.05 avg rating — 430,276 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.18 avg rating — 5,732 ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
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4.13 avg rating — 5,675 ratings
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The Longest Day
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4.32 avg rating — 23,472 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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4.23 avg rating — 22,574 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
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4.26 avg rating — 20,076 ratings
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A History of Warfare
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3.98 avg rating — 4,053 ratings
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Testament of Youth
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4.10 avg rating — 10,681 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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4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.21 avg rating — 60,130 ratings
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
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4.14 avg rating — 2,606 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
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4.37 avg rating — 10,651 ratings
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The Good Soldiers
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4.22 avg rating — 8,119 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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4.32 avg rating — 35,124 ratings
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Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
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3.84 avg rating — 95 ratings
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War in Human Civilization
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4.39 avg rating — 260 ratings
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War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa
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3.88 avg rating — 117 ratings
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
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4.12 avg rating — 10,185 ratings
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On War
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3.96 avg rating — 13,011 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.98 avg rating — 880 ratings
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A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture
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4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity
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3.90 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Her Privates We
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3.98 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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An Ice-Cream War
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3.89 avg rating — 3,857 ratings
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A History of Bombing
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4.32 avg rating — 486 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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3.67 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
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On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
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3.98 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Not in the Wind, Earthquake, or Fire
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Jackboot Britain
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3.58 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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3.96 avg rating — 11,501 ratings
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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4.29 avg rating — 28,010 ratings
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The Second World War: A People's History
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3.77 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne In World War II
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4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Art of War
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4.06 avg rating — 8,321 ratings
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War in European History
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3.96 avg rating — 559 ratings
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The Pursuit of Power
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4.08 avg rating — 523 ratings
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War
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3.71 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare
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3.83 avg rating — 352 ratings
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The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War
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3.80 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Firing Line
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4.10 avg rating — 21 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 — 154 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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3.77 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
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3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
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On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
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4.02 avg rating — 654 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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3.78 avg rating — 189 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 — 16 ratings
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Masculinities in politics and war: Gendering modern history
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3.83 avg rating — 6 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 — 2,600 ratings
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Great Military Disasters
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3.97 avg rating — 32 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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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Letters to Lily: On How the World Works
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3.52 avg rating — 93 ratings
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War and Our World
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3.63 avg rating — 143 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 — 32,149 ratings
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Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
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3.69 avg rating — 71 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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4.05 avg rating — 1,692 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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3.81 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Psychology of Jingoism
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Painting the Map Red
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
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4.07 avg rating — 2,905 ratings
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A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
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4.31 avg rating — 1,031 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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3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Death of a Hero
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3.99 avg rating — 631 ratings
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The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Under Fire
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3.84 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.12 avg rating — 15,873 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.81 avg rating — 306,420 ratings
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Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
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3.83 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Missing of the Somme
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3.87 avg rating — 740 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 — 349 ratings
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The Experience Of World War I
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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France and the Great War (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 26)
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Blood Of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
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4.25 avg rating — 118 ratings
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In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes
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4.31 avg rating — 35 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: The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
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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.