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Best Non-fiction War Books
List of most compelling nonfiction books about war.
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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4.44 avg rating — 133,961 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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4.30 avg rating — 67,158 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 977,982 ratings
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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4.33 avg rating — 32,074 ratings
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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4.34 avg rating — 97,944 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
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4.22 avg rating — 62,489 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 81,009 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.48 avg rating — 44,717 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 141,645 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
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4.33 avg rating — 25,464 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
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4.27 avg rating — 21,148 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.04 avg rating — 84,899 ratings
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War
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Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 23,490 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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4.25 avg rating — 38,198 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
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4.38 avg rating — 11,668 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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4.32 avg rating — 39,346 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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4.24 avg rating — 24,140 ratings
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Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient
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Ammar Habib (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 7,936 ratings
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Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
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Steve Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 8,589 ratings
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Dispatches
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4.22 avg rating — 20,842 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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4.39 avg rating — 32,663 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 535,973 ratings
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1776
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4.10 avg rating — 240,043 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,312,358 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 21,738 ratings
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
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4.29 avg rating — 19,749 ratings
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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4.31 avg rating — 30,610 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.24 avg rating — 48,606 ratings
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
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4.12 avg rating — 11,649 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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Tim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 4,018 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.15 avg rating — 19,748 ratings
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The Fall of Berlin 1945
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4.30 avg rating — 17,680 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
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3.93 avg rating — 15,161 ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
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4.09 avg rating — 66,382 ratings
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In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down
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4.27 avg rating — 5,827 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
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4.22 avg rating — 23,861 ratings
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
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3.70 avg rating — 11,640 ratings
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
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4.19 avg rating — 22,562 ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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4.22 avg rating — 9,092 ratings
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A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
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Philip Caputo (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 15,604 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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4.35 avg rating — 11,186 ratings
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 41,485 ratings
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The First World War
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4.04 avg rating — 15,467 ratings
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
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4.58 avg rating — 7,904 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 97,907 ratings
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
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4.32 avg rating — 19,412 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.12 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
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4.23 avg rating — 14,039 ratings
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Magenta
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John Payton Foden (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 5,127 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.22 avg rating — 12,938 ratings
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The Things They Carried
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4.14 avg rating — 331,528 ratings
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Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
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4.33 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
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4.53 avg rating — 7,989 ratings
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Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
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4.18 avg rating — 11,113 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 15,305 ratings
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
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4.13 avg rating — 8,441 ratings
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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4.24 avg rating — 12,305 ratings
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To Hell and Back
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4.26 avg rating — 8,518 ratings
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The Great Escape
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4.22 avg rating — 10,295 ratings
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A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
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Michael G. Kramer (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 6,152 ratings
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
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4.20 avg rating — 11,405 ratings
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Chickenhawk
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Robert Mason (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 14,505 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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4.09 avg rating — 7,703 ratings
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
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4.19 avg rating — 3,139 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.06 avg rating — 42,605 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 14,210 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.32 avg rating — 22,947 ratings
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
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4.31 avg rating — 10,426 ratings
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The Forever War
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4.13 avg rating — 11,234 ratings
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Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
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Sean Parnell (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 12,712 ratings
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The Good Soldiers
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4.22 avg rating — 8,541 ratings
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
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4.18 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 211,712 ratings
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What It is Like to Go to War
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4.01 avg rating — 9,652 ratings
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After Dunkirk (After Dunkirk #1)
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Lee Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 11,826 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
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4.27 avg rating — 5,023 ratings
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Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
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4.12 avg rating — 3,595 ratings
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The Mountains Sing
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 53,773 ratings
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Matterhorn
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4.27 avg rating — 45,718 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 53,921 ratings
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 200,822 ratings
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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3.90 avg rating — 11,625 ratings
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All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To
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3.74 avg rating — 717 ratings
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War Is a Racket
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4.27 avg rating — 7,705 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
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Inside Out & Back Again
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Thanhhà Lại (Goodreads Author)
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives
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Confederates: A Novel
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Unspoken Abandonment: Sometimes the hardest part of going to war is coming home
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The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II Book 1)
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Limor Regev (Goodreads Author)
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
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Vietnam: A History
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
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The Conquest of Gaul
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Goodbye to All That,Band of Brothers E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest,Utah Beach The Amphibious Landing And Airborne Operations On D-Day, June 6, 1944,Omaha Beach D-Day, June 6, 1944,Masters of the Air America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany,Given Up for Dead America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island,Pacific Alamo The Battle for Wake Island,The Day of Battle The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944,Citizen Soldiers The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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I don't know. I didn't start this list. I wanted to add the books in my post but didn't know how to do that either.
You add books to the list in the upper right corner.It says "find/add books to list"
I started the list to get book ideas. I intially thought it would be a list of books more akin to personal memoirs like Grant's, Caputo's and Grave's. But folks have added more history-type books, which is great. I have started reading and am enjoying McPherson's Battle Cry for Freedom based on reviews above. Many thanks - keep them coming.
both of the Rick Riordan books are fiction and shouldn't be on this list. They are good, but not in the proper category
Battle Cry of Freedom told me more about the Civil War in the Introduction than I learned from any other book.It stated that prior to the Civil War, Harper's Weekly (THE news magazine of the day) used to refer to this country as "The United States ARE..." plural. But after the war it was always "The United States IS..." singular.
That explains the Civil War in a nutshell.
Maybe we want to divide this list into separate wars...Ancient, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam,Desert Storm etc. It might be easier to order my choices.I have a #1 favorite for WWII, but that means another one would have to be #2 even if it is my #1 favorite book about the Vietnam war.
Removed for being fiction:All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
The Iliad, by Homer
The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse, by Rick Riordan
The Battle of the Labyrinth, by Rick Riordan
The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
Fields of Fire, by James Webb
The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
There's plenty of scope there for new lists, if you want to start them, Lisa. It's pretty easy to start a new list.
I believe O'Brien states that The Things They Carried is a work of fiction, although it does feel quite real.
You could vote for it.
I tried to add books but there was no 'Save' button or any other means of leaving the page which meant they were not added - a waste of effort
Um, you don't hit a "save" button; you can either vote for a book that's already on the list, by clicking "vote for this book" in the information under its title, or go to "add books to this list," where you can perform a general search or choose books from your own bookshelves. If you do the latter, the "vote for this book" button is to the right of the book's title. A list of the books you have voted for will appear to the right of the page.
Thanks Susanna - no point me having my own nerdy little list .... surely they should be added to the main list?
Uh, "your list" is added to the main list. All votes go to the main list.
"Matterhorn" by Karl Marlantes is fiction and shouldn't be on this list.
Indeed it is; I'll remove it.
#5 - "The Things They Carried" is a great book...And it is fiction. Should not be on this list.
Removed for being fiction:The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
Thanks, Susanna. Great, helpful list.
Susanna wrote: "Indeed it is; I'll remove it."Susanna, thanks. How are you able to remove books? Nostromo (who stated this one)
I'm a GR Librarian. It's a function on the edit page.
It doesn't look as if this page has seen much traffic recently, but I like it, and I also found a duplicate (Sherman's Memoirs), which I removed, along with 4 other unnamed duplicates that the system said had been taken out (I asked it to search for duplicates).
Susanna wrote: "Removed for being fiction:
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
The Iliad, by Homer
The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse,..."
Yes, The Killer Angels is classified as fiction, but it's a great primer for learning about the Civil War.
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
The Iliad, by Homer
The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse,..."
Yes, The Killer Angels is classified as fiction, but it's a great primer for learning about the Civil War.
Susanna wrote: "I'm a GR Librarian. It's a function on the edit page."Hello, can you remove The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker as those are fiction. Currently ranked at 277.
I've noticed that listopia, for some reason, is always a place that draws complaints, and often they are not all that valid, i.e., a book is not listed and the person can just put it on, or nonspecific, i.e., "This list sucks", which always makes me wonder what the individual is doing there anyway...and then there's this complaint, which I hadn't planned on turning into one. I just wanted to say I have gotten SO MANY really great ideas for my want-to-read books from this list! Thank you to the many individuals who added thoughtful selections, esp. the Catton series.
Donna, there are both valid an invalid complaints on every list. I looked at one yesterday about "Best Book Series" and wondered why the hell The Taming of the Shrew and On the Road were listed.
Well, of course there are valid complaints too. I'll see if I can find the link you mentioned and zap those. Obviously they are just misplaced...and I swear that there's a troll out there who puts Twilight on every list, regardless of genre. But my main point was to express my appreciation for the good stuff that people added and that I think did me some good.
Jonathan Brett wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13..."Did not find On the Road, but there are 13 pp. & I only had time to go through 5 of them. Removed Taming of the Shrew and The Three Musketeers. Was sorely tempted to remove Little Women, but since there was a Little Men at some point I didn't dare. (Librarians are held strictly accountable, so when in doubt, I leave it alone). It may be someone else has found & removed On the Road. If you see it again, let me know what page it's on & I'll get it. I am not an employee, just one of many volunteers, but I signed on because I really hate seeing misplaced books in listopia. Thanks...it's a nifty list. When I get a minute, I will go back & vote!
Three Musketeers is part of a series, though.
The only series of which I can find it to be considered a part is the complete works of Dumas, which does not qualify for our purposes.I will be away from the site for a few days on personal business. If you want other titles removed, I am sure someone can help, or you can apply to be a Goodreads librarian.
I'm already a Goodreads librarian, but I don't delete things. As for Three Musketeers, those that I mentioned on the other page are, in fact, part of the Musketeer series. In each one, D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Collectively, the three books are known as The d'Artagnan Romances.
Battle Cry is a work of Fiction and should not be on this list.
The Yellow Birds, currently ranked at joint 391, is fiction.
Why is Undaunted Courage on this list? Lewis & Clark weren't at war. They were out exploring. It's been awhile since I read this book so maybe I forget - Did President Jefferson declare war on an Indian tribe? If yes, I don't remember that part. I know L & C had to protect themselves and their party but I don't remember any war.
The system found and removed 1 duplicate.
The system found and removed another duplicate.
Dispatches and The Things They Carried are both fiction, both in the top 100.
Sean wrote: "Dispatches and The Things They Carried are both fiction, both in the top 100."Au contraire, Pierre. I mean Sean. Dispatches, by Michael Herr is nonfiction. However, The Things They Carried is indeed fiction, and has been removed from #59:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
The system found and removed 3 duplicates.
Hi, I found another one to be removed (I think). Into the Wild, #854 on page 9.
Yeah, it's non-fiction, but I haven't read it so can't say as to whether it's a "war" book or not.
Sean wrote: "Hi, I found another one to be removed (I think). Into the Wild, #854 on page 9."It is not a war book, and it is gone now.
I have also removed The Nightingale, by Kirsten Hannah, from the same page; it is fiction.
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