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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 63,447 ratings — published 1645
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.57 — 3,737,153 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 583,883 ratings — published -500
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 16,970 ratings — published 1716
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 8,523 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 — 4,548 ratings — published 2004
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,430,365 ratings — published 2011
Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 16,429 ratings — published 1991
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,793,412 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 — 132,412 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 179,715 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 224,166 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 387,922 ratings — published 2017
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 323,318 ratings — published 2006
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,025,126 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 48,292 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 — 12,364 ratings — published 1995
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.21 — 85,469 ratings — published 1986
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,239,692 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,082,825 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,487,892 ratings — published 1985
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 310 ratings — published 1467
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.36 — 158,244 ratings — published 2018
A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,834 ratings — published 2006
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 350,417 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 515,527 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 — 142,445 ratings — published 2012
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 427,540 ratings — published 2016
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 909 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,580 ratings — published 1957
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,166,111 ratings — published 2007
What It is Like to Go to War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,941 ratings — published 2011
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,180,620 ratings — published 2025
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
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avg rating 4.68 — 94,938 ratings — published 2024
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
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avg rating 4.65 — 116,916 ratings — published 2023
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
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avg rating 4.69 — 137,595 ratings — published 2022
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
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avg rating 4.54 — 160,446 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
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avg rating 4.41 — 195,419 ratings — published 2021
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
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avg rating 4.50 — 240,434 ratings — published 2021
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 364,773 ratings — published 2020
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 7,544 ratings — published 2019
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 78,866 ratings — published 2023
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,738,776 ratings — published 2023
The Combat Codes (The Combat Codes Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,932 ratings — published 2021
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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avg rating 4.38 — 689,290 ratings — published 2007
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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avg rating 4.29 — 108,986 ratings — published 2021
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 10,524 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 — 1,412 ratings — published 1992
“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with our own preconceived ideas and aprioristic conceptions. ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
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“It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.”
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