The Philosophy of War
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Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles
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Joseph O. Chapa
4.05 avg rating — 59 ratings 
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The Problem of War: Darwinism, Christianity, and their Battle to Understand Human Conflict
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Michael Ruse
3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
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Dave Grossman
4.11 avg rating — 11,867 ratings 
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This We'll Defend: A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath
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Paul Crenshaw
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings 18. 
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
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Jonathan Shay
4.31 avg rating — 1,861 ratings 19. 
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
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Jonathan Shay
4.20 avg rating — 525 ratings 20. 
The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat
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Earl J. Hess
3.86 avg rating — 73 ratings 
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
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Paul Fussell
4.16 avg rating — 758 ratings 23. 
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
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Dave Grossman
4.29 avg rating — 4,379 ratings 
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The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade
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Philip Jenkins
3.92 avg rating — 272 ratings 28. 
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
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Karen Armstrong
3.95 avg rating — 1,566 ratings 
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Vicarious Warfare: American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap
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Thomas Waldman
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 33. 
The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy 3.99 avg rating — 762 ratings
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How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy
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Thucydides
4.06 avg rating — 318 ratings 
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Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica
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Laura E. Matthew
3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings 37. 
Conquistador’s Wake: Tracking the Legacy of Hernando de Soto in the Indigenous Southeast 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
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Peter Cozzens
4.29 avg rating — 3,391 ratings 39. 
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
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Peter Silver
3.75 avg rating — 270 ratings 40. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,687 ratings 41. 
The Shawnees and the War for America: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series 3.81 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Warriors in Uniform: The Legacy of American Indian Heroism
by:
Herman J. Viola
4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings 43. 
War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film
by:
Marc DiPaolo
3.91 avg rating — 112 ratings 44. 
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior - Heroes of Ancient Greece, From Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
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Paul Cartledge
3.78 avg rating — 3,023 ratings 45. 
The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and WWI's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home 4.23 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Compassionate Soldier: Remarkable True Stories of Mercy, Heroism, and Honor from the Battlefield
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Jerry Borrowman
3.99 avg rating — 198 ratings 48. 
Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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Mona Behan
3.88 avg rating — 329 ratings 49. 
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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For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice
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Howard Schultz
4.30 avg rating — 478 ratings 51. 
Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency
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Hannah Gurman
3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings 52. 
Other People's Wars: The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence
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Martha Minow
3.85 avg rating — 218 ratings 54. 
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
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Samantha Power
4.26 avg rating — 10,878 ratings 55. 
Dr. Seuss and Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's Leading Comic Artists
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André Schiffrin
4.03 avg rating — 115 ratings 
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The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
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Michael Hastings
3.93 avg rating — 2,628 ratings 58. 
Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World
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Adrian Brettle
3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings