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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 64,791 ratings — published 1645
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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avg rating 4.56 — 3,908,123 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 594,010 ratings — published -500
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 17,172 ratings — published 1716
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 8,541 ratings — published 1975
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 4,588 ratings — published 2004
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,475,973 ratings — published 2011
Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 16,583 ratings — published 1991
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,855,313 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 — 137,851 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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avg rating 4.23 — 186,940 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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avg rating 4.24 — 233,362 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 404,905 ratings — published 2017
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 333,446 ratings — published 2006
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,067,498 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 49,003 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 — 12,538 ratings — published 1995
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.21 — 86,047 ratings — published 1986
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,311,332 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,233,228 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,500,262 ratings — published 1985
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
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avg rating 4.67 — 146,598 ratings — published 2024
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
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avg rating 4.64 — 177,756 ratings — published 2023
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
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avg rating 4.69 — 209,275 ratings — published 2022
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.44 — 558,255 ratings — published 2020
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 308 ratings — published 1467
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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avg rating 4.36 — 164,593 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 — 2,853 ratings — published 2006
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 355,004 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 542,658 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 — 143,433 ratings — published 2012
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 440,458 ratings — published 2016
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 918 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,934 ratings — published 1957
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,216,518 ratings — published 2007
What It is Like to Go to War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,995 ratings — published 2011
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,279,372 ratings — published 2025
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
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avg rating 4.53 — 245,695 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
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avg rating 4.39 — 300,203 ratings — published 2021
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
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avg rating 4.48 — 368,768 ratings — published 2021
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 7,917 ratings — published 2019
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 83,910 ratings — published 2023
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,857,061 ratings — published 2023
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 298,067 ratings — published 2019
The Combat Codes (The Combat Codes Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,003 ratings — published 2021
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 717,491 ratings — published 2007
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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avg rating 4.28 — 113,950 ratings — published 2021
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 10,729 ratings — published 1899
“For those regarded as warriors...
When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior’s only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.”
― Kill Bill
When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior’s only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.”
― Kill Bill
“The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.”
― War
― War
