War-What Is It Good For?

1.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,963 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,731 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War 3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,362 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,908 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 4.19 avg rating — 794,035 ratings
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Birdsong
Birdsong 4.11 avg rating — 82,679 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,294 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,608 ratings
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The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage 3.30 avg rating — 108,699 ratings
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The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,392 ratings
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Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War 3.79 avg rating — 255 ratings
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March
March 3.81 avg rating — 76,176 ratings
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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain 3.89 avg rating — 248,125 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,326 ratings
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers 4.27 avg rating — 1,620 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,688 ratings
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Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Write Home for Me : A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam
Write Home for Me : A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing 4.25 avg rating — 138 ratings
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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
The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama 3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Atomic City Girls
The Atomic City Girls 3.54 avg rating — 24,995 ratings
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers 4.03 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War 4.20 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam 4.23 avg rating — 4,961 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 3.94 avg rating — 22,979 ratings
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War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots 3.94 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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Wingmen
Wingmen 4.38 avg rating — 365 ratings
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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It 4.33 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Fireside Chats
Fireside Chats 4.13 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna
Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna 4.03 avg rating — 315 ratings
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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars 4.39 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Love and Luck--A Young Woman's Journey from Berlin to Shanghai to San Francisco
Love and Luck--A Young Woman's Journey from Berlin to Shanghai to San Francisco 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Gandhi on Non-Violence
Gandhi on Non-Violence 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,434 ratings
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The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South
The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views
War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations 4.40 avg rating — 124 ratings
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They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans
They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans 4.21 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Supersonic Saints: Thrilling Stories from LDS Pilots
Supersonic Saints: Thrilling Stories from LDS Pilots 3.95 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,487 ratings
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Purge
Purge 3.91 avg rating — 20,154 ratings
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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone 4.08 avg rating — 596 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,127 ratings
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,357,296 ratings
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution 4.11 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918
Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Activist: Portraits of Courage
Activist: Portraits of Courage 4.35 avg rating — 62 ratings
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War
War 4.25 avg rating — 23,759 ratings
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Generals Die in Bed
Generals Die in Bed 3.82 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt 3.90 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq 4.12 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Monocled Mutineer
The Monocled Mutineer 3.64 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,853 ratings
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War Crimes and the American Conscience
War Crimes and the American Conscience it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 388 ratings
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The Constant Soldier
The Constant Soldier 4.25 avg rating — 809 ratings
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Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform
Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Courageous First World War Stories
Courageous First World War Stories 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address 4.52 avg rating — 7,664 ratings
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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)
The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction) 3.97 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Where Soldiers Lie
Where Soldiers Lie 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War 3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today 3.78 avg rating — 2,188 ratings
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books) 4.24 avg rating — 12,399 ratings
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 3.96 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Missing in Action: Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing
Missing in Action: Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 18,962 ratings
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Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War 3.75 avg rating — 116 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Decision Points
Decision Points 3.81 avg rating — 42,109 ratings
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A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare 3.77 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,448 ratings
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World War One: 1914-1918
World War One: 1914-1918 4.08 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness 4.38 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation 4.04 avg rating — 19,437 ratings
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Marathon: The Battle that Changed Western Civilization
Marathon: The Battle that Changed Western Civilization 3.83 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Love Letters of the Great War
Love Letters of the Great War 4.24 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima 4.27 avg rating — 8,472 ratings
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History 4.11 avg rating — 475 ratings
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War Horse (War Horse, #1)
War Horse (War Horse, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 57,744 ratings
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Art of War
Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,679 ratings
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How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885
How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War 3.91 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating — 348,536 ratings
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The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War
The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War 3.91 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,628 ratings
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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era 4.07 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character 4.31 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
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Stories of World War One
Stories of World War One 3.77 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West 4.03 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves 3.71 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America 3.75 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming 4.20 avg rating — 525 ratings
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