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War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
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The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South
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War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
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War
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
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War Crimes and the American Conscience
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Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform
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The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
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Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
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A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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Marathon: The Battle that Changed Western Civilization
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885
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The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War
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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
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The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
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Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America
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Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
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The Shawnees and the War for America: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series
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3.82 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Warriors in Uniform: The Legacy of American Indian Heroism
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
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Thank You for Your Service
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For God and Country (in that order): Faith and Service for Ordinary Radicals
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The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama
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Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
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God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad - Origins, History, Aftermath
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Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad
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The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
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Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War
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War Is a Racket
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Unknown Soldier, Vol. 1: Haunted House
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
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Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
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Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
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Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual
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Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality
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Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
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Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
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We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War From the US Soldiers Who Served There
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
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Mud & Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
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Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall
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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
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They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
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The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
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A Sailor's Story
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On Seas of Glory: Heroic Men, Great Ships, and Epic Battles of the American Navy
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Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy
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The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy
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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
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Hiroshima
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Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman & the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-45
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America 1500-2000
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GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love – The True Story of Romance and Resilience in World War II America
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The Great Anti-War Cartoons
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