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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 64,112 ratings — published 1645
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as combat)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,812,355 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as combat)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,430 ratings — published -500
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 17,080 ratings — published 1716
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,527 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 — 4,562 ratings — published 2004
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,451,282 ratings — published 2011
Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 16,495 ratings — published 1991
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,820,992 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 — 134,990 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.23 — 183,161 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.24 — 228,435 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 395,564 ratings — published 2017
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 327,644 ratings — published 2006
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,043,826 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 48,619 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 — 12,454 ratings — published 1995
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.21 — 85,721 ratings — published 1986
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,271,544 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,149,594 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,493,455 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 — 310 ratings — published 1467
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.36 — 161,213 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 — 2,842 ratings — published 2006
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 352,687 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 527,813 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 — 142,916 ratings — published 2012
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 433,351 ratings — published 2016
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 916 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,761 ratings — published 1957
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,189,081 ratings — published 2007
What It is Like to Go to War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,970 ratings — published 2011
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,227,210 ratings — published 2025
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
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avg rating 4.68 — 117,512 ratings — published 2024
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
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avg rating 4.65 — 142,548 ratings — published 2023
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
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avg rating 4.69 — 167,149 ratings — published 2022
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
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avg rating 4.54 — 195,765 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
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avg rating 4.40 — 238,375 ratings — published 2021
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
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avg rating 4.49 — 292,660 ratings — published 2021
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 444,610 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 — 7,709 ratings — published 2019
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 81,253 ratings — published 2023
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,791,379 ratings — published 2023
The Combat Codes (The Combat Codes Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,966 ratings — published 2021
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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avg rating 4.38 — 701,886 ratings — published 2007
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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avg rating 4.28 — 111,300 ratings — published 2021
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 10,628 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
“Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own flesh. He knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutes…”
― The Naked and the Dead
― The Naked and the Dead
“...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.”
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