Best History Books on the topic of "WAR"

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating — 45,838 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,611 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That 3.93 avg rating — 15,317 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,055 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas 4.20 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory 4.13 avg rating — 6,077 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany 4.24 avg rating — 24,326 ratings
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Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth 4.11 avg rating — 12,166 ratings
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Dodging Shells
Dodging Shells 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Iraq War 2003: What Really Happened Behind The Political Scenes
Iraq War 2003: What Really Happened Behind The Political Scenes 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,334 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,785 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,303 ratings
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A History of Warfare
A History of Warfare 3.98 avg rating — 4,510 ratings
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
The Forgotten Soldier
by: Guy Sajer
4.39 avg rating — 11,838 ratings
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The Good Soldiers
The Good Soldiers 4.22 avg rating — 8,593 ratings
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Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression 3.86 avg rating — 101 ratings
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War in Human Civilization
War in Human Civilization
by: Azar Gat
4.37 avg rating — 325 ratings
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War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa
War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa 3.84 avg rating — 122 ratings
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society 4.11 avg rating — 11,865 ratings
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On War
On War 3.96 avg rating — 14,229 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War 3.97 avg rating — 907 ratings
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A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture
A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture 4.16 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity
The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity 3.91 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Her Privates We
Her Privates We 3.99 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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An Ice-Cream War
An Ice-Cream War 3.91 avg rating — 4,358 ratings
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A History of Bombing
A History of Bombing 4.31 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers 3.66 avg rating — 5,345 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 4.32 avg rating — 40,054 ratings
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On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence 3.95 avg rating — 739 ratings
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Not in the Wind, Earthquake, or Fire
Not in the Wind, Earthquake, or Fire 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Jackboot Britain
Jackboot Britain 3.63 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies 3.99 avg rating — 13,563 ratings
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches 4.31 avg rating — 30,948 ratings
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The Second World War: A People's History
The Second World War: A People's History 3.74 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne In World War II
Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne In World War II 4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War 4.05 avg rating — 8,908 ratings
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War in European History
War in European History 3.96 avg rating — 614 ratings
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The Pursuit of Power
The Pursuit of Power 4.07 avg rating — 603 ratings
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War
War 3.75 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare 3.85 avg rating — 255 ratings
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The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War
The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War 3.84 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Firing Line
Firing Line 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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War: Identities in Conflict 1300-2000
War: Identities in Conflict 1300-2000 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience 3.88 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Humanity in Warfare
Humanity in Warfare 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Causes of War
The Causes of War 3.83 avg rating — 275 ratings
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The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace 4.04 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Warfare, Diplomacy and Politics: Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor
Warfare, Diplomacy and Politics: Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare 3.80 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century
Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age
War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age 3.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Masculinities in politics and war: Gendering modern history
Masculinities in politics and war: Gendering modern history 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If #1)
What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If #1) 3.66 avg rating — 2,759 ratings
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Great Military Disasters: A Historical Survey of Military Incompetence
Great Military Disasters: A Historical Survey of Military Incompetence 3.77 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain
Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Pacifism in Britain 1914-1945: The Defining of a Faith
Pacifism in Britain 1914-1945: The Defining of a Faith 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Politics of Dissent: Pacifism in France, 1919-1939
The Politics of Dissent: Pacifism in France, 1919-1939 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Letters to Lily: On How the World Works
Letters to Lily: On How the World Works 3.49 avg rating — 98 ratings
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War and Our World
War and Our World 3.58 avg rating — 152 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating — 34,382 ratings
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Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice 3.67 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Darwinism, War and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War
Darwinism, War and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War 4.06 avg rating — 1,871 ratings
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The Conduct Of War, 1789-1961: A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct
The Conduct Of War, 1789-1961: A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct 3.79 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Psychology of Jingoism
The Psychology of Jingoism 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902
Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West 4.08 avg rating — 3,230 ratings
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A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History
A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History 4.30 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets & Playwrights
The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets & Playwrights
by: Tim Cross
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Routledge Atlas of the First World War
The Routledge Atlas of the First World War 3.93 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Death of a Hero
Death of a Hero 4.03 avg rating — 715 ratings
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The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History
The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Under Fire
Under Fire 3.86 avg rating — 2,279 ratings
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Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating — 20,487 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,485 ratings
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Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa 3.80 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Missing of the Somme
The Missing of the Somme 3.87 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History 3.75 avg rating — 367 ratings
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The Experience of World War I
The Experience of World War I 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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France and the Great War (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 26)
France and the Great War (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 26) 3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Blood Of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
Blood Of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War 4.32 avg rating — 150 ratings
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In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes
In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes 4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918
Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The War for South Africa
The War for South Africa 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings