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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.02 avg rating — 394,775 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.15 avg rating — 69,001 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.81 avg rating — 290,775 ratings
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
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4.09 avg rating — 74,039 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
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3.89 avg rating — 14,576 ratings
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Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 28,341 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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4.10 avg rating — 12,678 ratings
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Testament of Youth
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4.09 avg rating — 10,457 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.09 avg rating — 14,282 ratings
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 300,852 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
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4.33 avg rating — 3,650 ratings
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Johnny Got His Gun
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4.19 avg rating — 38,853 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.20 avg rating — 9,845 ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
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4.13 avg rating — 5,670 ratings
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The Ghost Road
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4.09 avg rating — 16,575 ratings
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The First World War
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4.03 avg rating — 13,841 ratings
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Sebastian
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4.41 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Good Soldier Švejk
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4.09 avg rating — 17,129 ratings
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
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4.14 avg rating — 8,402 ratings
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The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 9,177 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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4.13 avg rating — 8,141 ratings
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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3.86 avg rating — 10,618 ratings
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
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4.33 avg rating — 7,091 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
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4.19 avg rating — 28,315 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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3.72 avg rating — 4,514 ratings
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
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4.30 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
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War Horse (War Horse, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 48,322 ratings
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
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4.09 avg rating — 1,382 ratings
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August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 2,488 ratings
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
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3.86 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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Parade's End
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3.88 avg rating — 6,253 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.09 avg rating — 128,772 ratings
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Coming Home
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3.90 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
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4.06 avg rating — 4,095 ratings
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And Quiet Flows the Don
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4.10 avg rating — 12,663 ratings
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The War Poems
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4.23 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Gallipoli
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4.03 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 98,339 ratings
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Somewhere in France (The Great War #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 11,756 ratings
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
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4.20 avg rating — 6,060 ratings
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The Radetzky March
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4.09 avg rating — 9,519 ratings
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Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 38,838 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 — 2,479 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 37,215 ratings
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
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4.13 avg rating — 7,582 ratings
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To Serve Them All My Days
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4.31 avg rating — 2,726 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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4.02 avg rating — 5,280 ratings
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The Return of the Soldier
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3.69 avg rating — 6,922 ratings
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The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion
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3.70 avg rating — 24,550 ratings
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A Very Long Engagement
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3.90 avg rating — 6,572 ratings
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They Called It Passchendaele
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4.34 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Her Privates We
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3.97 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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The Absolutist
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4.08 avg rating — 16,482 ratings
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Journey's End
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3.87 avg rating — 3,382 ratings
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Three Soldiers
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3.56 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
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3.98 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Dreadnought
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4.31 avg rating — 6,268 ratings
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Three Day Road
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4.29 avg rating — 23,029 ratings
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
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4.17 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
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One of Ours
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3.92 avg rating — 7,845 ratings
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Voyage au bout de la nuit
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4.21 avg rating — 36,689 ratings
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Ashenden
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3.85 avg rating — 3,003 ratings
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Tommy's Tunnel: My grandad's story and his role in the Battle of Messines Ridge
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4.67 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Greenmantle
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3.75 avg rating — 4,304 ratings
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Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
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4.01 avg rating — 583 ratings
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The Wars
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3.86 avg rating — 8,793 ratings
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1914 Days of Hope
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4.19 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
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3.91 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
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Strange Meeting
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3.91 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
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The Roses of No Man's Land
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4.29 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Kingdoms Fall - The Laxenburg Message (Kingdoms Fall, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The First Day on the Somme
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4.28 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A., #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 6,657 ratings
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The Daughters of Mars
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3.66 avg rating — 4,223 ratings
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The First Casualty
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3.93 avg rating — 5,456 ratings
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Fear: A Novel of World War I
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4.18 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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The First World War
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3.86 avg rating — 2,130 ratings
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Biggles Learns to Fly
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4.01 avg rating — 809 ratings
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
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4.15 avg rating — 3,434 ratings
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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
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3.99 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Somme
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4.23 avg rating — 662 ratings
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
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4.19 avg rating — 2,041 ratings
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Against the Day
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3.95 avg rating — 9,866 ratings
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The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War
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3.89 avg rating — 938 ratings
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The Road Back
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4.30 avg rating — 6,363 ratings
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The Alice Network
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4.30 avg rating — 364,953 ratings
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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918
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4.17 avg rating — 687 ratings
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War
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4.25 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
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The Russian Origins of the First World War
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4.04 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
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4.32 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Wilfred Owen
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4.28 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Company K
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4.24 avg rating — 889 ratings
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Un anno sull'altipiano
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4.10 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
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The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm
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3.64 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
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4.03 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Birds Without Wings
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4.15 avg rating — 13,663 ratings
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A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
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4.17 avg rating — 932 ratings
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Life Class (Life Class, #1)
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3.58 avg rating — 4,402 ratings
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Under Fire
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3.83 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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4.18 avg rating — 119,653 ratings
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If you notice, this self-published novel is ranked #10. However, upon deeper inspection you will also notice that he is doing quid pro quo reviews and rankings with other self-published authors. For example EVERY single vote he received was a #1 vote (really, not War and Peace?). Also, many of those who voted for his book ONLY voted for his book. Also many who voted for his book ALSO have books they are pimping. So, anyway, take it for what it is.
Here is the list of Roy's "Bad Behaving Author Friends":
1. John Hanley - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
2. Paul Cude - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
3. Dab10 - ranked Comign Home 1 of 1 - author of Karmic Krackers
4. Leonardo Ramirez - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
5. Danielle DeVor - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
6. Dianne Harman - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
7. Melodie Ramone - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
8. Elizabeth Marx - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
9. Karen Prince - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
10. Murielle Cyr - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
11. Janna Yeshanova - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
12. Jams N. Roses - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
13. Shane K.P. O'Neill - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
14. Rhonda Patton/Chester McDaniel - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
So, 14/16 votes are authors. Either Roy is a writer's writer, or this is obviously a way for these self=published authors to try and push up their books. Ugh.
But to be fair to Roy. There were two rating that didn't come from other Goodreads/Self-Published authors. One come from Emma Morris, who has apparently ONLY rated Roy's books (all 5 stars) and has no friends. The other rating comes from a 17 yo Norwegian kid who likes Dan Brown A LOT.