The Modern Art of War and Survival
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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Mitchell Zuckoff
3.87 avg rating — 46,527 ratings 
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Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967
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Doyle D. Glass
4.51 avg rating — 1,257 ratings 2. 
Thrive: Long-Term Wilderness Survival Guide; Skills, Tips, and Gear for Living on the Land 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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No Soldier Left Behind: The Life and Times of Brigadier General John G Kulhavi, United States Army, Ret.
by:
Donald Steele
4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 7. 
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
by:
David Kilcullen
4.06 avg rating — 2,289 ratings 7. 
Lily Renée, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
by:
Trina Robbins
3.72 avg rating — 800 ratings 
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War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare
by:
Robert Taber
4.14 avg rating — 673 ratings 10. 
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Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
by:
Max Cleland
3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings 14. 
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
by:
David Kilcullen
4.36 avg rating — 719 ratings 
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Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
by:
David Kilcullen
4.16 avg rating — 990 ratings 16. 
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific 4.19 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
by:
Edgar Harrell
4.24 avg rating — 1,160 ratings 20. 
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
by:
Thomas X. Hammes
3.91 avg rating — 866 ratings 20. 
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
3.98 avg rating — 12,184 ratings 
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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival During the Korean War 3.50 avg rating — 179 ratings
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So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II 3.92 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China s Wartime Atrocity
by:
Homare Endo
4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
by:
Moriz Scheyer
4.01 avg rating — 170 ratings 
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Hell's Broke Loose In Georgia: Survival In A Civil War Regiment
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Scott Walker
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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The Shattered Lens: A War Photographer's True Story of Captivity and Survival in Syria 3.35 avg rating — 241 ratings
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
by:
George Wilson
4.23 avg rating — 3,877 ratings 42. 
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
by:
Doug Stanton
4.33 avg rating — 23,189 ratings 44. 
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
by:
H.R. McMaster
3.99 avg rating — 4,792 ratings 
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by:
Art Spiegelman
4.39 avg rating — 365,563 ratings 47. 
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating — 36,105 ratings 47. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,163 ratings
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Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
by:
Luke Harding
4.13 avg rating — 964 ratings 
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Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge
by:
Dina Porat
3.41 avg rating — 37 ratings 55. 
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by:
Steve Coll
4.31 avg rating — 18,332 ratings 55. 
Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More 3.96 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.26 avg rating — 9,818 ratings 59. 
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The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust
by:
Harry Lenga
4.47 avg rating — 1,311 ratings 
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A Bright and Blinding Sun: A World War II Story of Survival, Love, and Redemption 4.47 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.30 avg rating — 3,318 ratings 65. 
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
by:
Thomas E. Ricks
3.97 avg rating — 2,288 ratings 65. 
Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
by:
Joe Lee
4.36 avg rating — 95 ratings 67. 
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
by:
Eliot A. Cohen
3.98 avg rating — 991 ratings 67. 
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
by:
Lucy Adlington
4.08 avg rating — 17,684 ratings 
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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
by:
Rebecca Frankel
4.31 avg rating — 2,621 ratings 71. 
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
by:
Bernard B. Fall
4.30 avg rating — 2,148 ratings 71. 
My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor 4.18 avg rating — 3,420 ratings
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To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
by:
Derek Leebaert
3.75 avg rating — 151 ratings 73. 
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
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Gwen Strauss
4.27 avg rating — 6,283 ratings 
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Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor
by:
Beau Wise
4.58 avg rating — 1,138 ratings 
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The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
by:
Stephan Talty
4.38 avg rating — 547 ratings 79. 
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
by:
Thomas E. Ricks
4.11 avg rating — 3,638 ratings 79. 
Strangers in a Stranger Land: How One Country's Jews Fought an Unwinnable War alongside Nazi Troops… and Survived
by:
John B. Simon
4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings 81. 
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
by:
John A. Nagl
3.98 avg rating — 1,855 ratings 81. 
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
by:
Nina Siegal
4.33 avg rating — 593 ratings 83. 
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
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Peter Zeihan
4.33 avg rating — 5,503 ratings 83. 
The War Went on: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA
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Ted Gup
4.01 avg rating — 1,075 ratings 85. 
No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today 4.31 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
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Mark Bowden
3.98 avg rating — 19,107 ratings 87. 
The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War
by:
Midge Gillies
3.77 avg rating — 92 ratings 
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World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It
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A. Scott Berg
4.29 avg rating — 59 ratings 
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Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform
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Midge Gillies
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (Books About Books)
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Tom Roston
3.69 avg rating — 299 ratings 95. 
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust 3.72 avg rating — 5,063 ratings
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The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
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Founding Fathers
4.44 avg rating — 26,980 ratings 97. 
American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir
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Myra Mendible
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 99. 
The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation
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Founding Fathers
4.60 avg rating — 1,430 ratings 99. 
Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings