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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 62,859 ratings — published 1645
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as combat)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,662,293 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as combat)
avg rating 3.94 — 579,087 ratings — published
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as combat)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,911 ratings — published 1716
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,512 ratings — published 1975
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as combat)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,527 ratings — published 2004
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,411,112 ratings — published 2011
Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 16,373 ratings — published 1991
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,765,595 ratings — published 2010
A Hard Place: A Sergeant's Tale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published 2007
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
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avg rating 4.46 — 129,857 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 176,272 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 219,862 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 380,206 ratings — published 2017
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 318,856 ratings — published 2006
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,005,289 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 48,020 ratings — published 2010
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 12,301 ratings — published 1995
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.21 — 85,241 ratings — published 1986
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,207,710 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,018,641 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,482,164 ratings — published 1985
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.10 — 309 ratings — published 1467
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 155,237 ratings — published 2018
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 348,331 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.16 — 502,705 ratings — published 2018
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 141,959 ratings — published 2012
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 421,687 ratings — published 2016
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 900 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,410 ratings — published 1957
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,144,885 ratings — published 2007
What It is Like to Go to War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,904 ratings — published 2011
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,132,192 ratings — published 2025
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
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avg rating 4.68 — 78,104 ratings — published 2024
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
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avg rating 4.66 — 96,621 ratings — published 2023
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
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avg rating 4.69 — 113,914 ratings — published 2022
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
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avg rating 4.55 — 132,458 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
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avg rating 4.43 — 160,996 ratings — published 2021
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
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avg rating 4.51 — 198,008 ratings — published 2021
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 301,127 ratings — published 2020
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 7,368 ratings — published 2019
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 76,763 ratings — published 2023
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,683,434 ratings — published 2023
The Combat Codes (The Combat Codes Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,896 ratings — published 2021
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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avg rating 4.38 — 675,728 ratings — published 2007
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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avg rating 4.29 — 106,747 ratings — published 2021
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 10,444 ratings — published 1899
Living the Martial Way: A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,413 ratings — published 1992
A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,830 ratings — published 2006
“Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant awareness of one's own inevitable death, total focus on the present moment, the valuing of other people's lives above one's own, and being part of a larger religious community such as the Sangha, ummah, or church. All four of these exist in combat. The big difference is that the mystic sees heaven and the warrior sees hell. Whether combat is the dark side of the same version, or only something equivalent in intensity, I simply don't know. I do know that at the age of fifteen I had a mystical experience that scared the hell out of me and both it and combat put me into a different relationship with ordinary life and eternity.
Most of us, including me, would prefer to think of a sacred space as some light-filled wonderous place where we can feel good and find a way to shore up our psyches against death. We don't want to think that something as ugly and brutal as combat could be involved in any way with the spiritual. However, would any practicing Christian say that Calvary Hill was not a sacred space?”
― What It is Like to Go to War
Most of us, including me, would prefer to think of a sacred space as some light-filled wonderous place where we can feel good and find a way to shore up our psyches against death. We don't want to think that something as ugly and brutal as combat could be involved in any way with the spiritual. However, would any practicing Christian say that Calvary Hill was not a sacred space?”
― What It is Like to Go to War
“Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and a particular envelope of lusts and anxieties and perhaps some goodness would be quite dead. All as easy as stepping on an insect, perhaps easier…Everything was completely out of whack, none of the joints fitted. The men had been singing in the motor pool, and there had been something nice about it, something childish and brave. And they were here on this road, a point moving along in a line in the vast neutral spaces of the jungle. And somewhere else a battle might be going on. The artillery, the small-arms fire they had been hearing constantly, might be nothing, something scattered along the front, or it might be all concentrated now in the minuscule inferno of combat. None of it matched. The night had broken them into all the isolated units that actually they were.”
― The Naked and the Dead
― The Naked and the Dead
