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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of GenocideSamantha Power200336 pts5 wins6 listsBasic BooksPolitics & GovernmentWar & Military Strategy+3
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade AmericaGarry Wills199228 pts2 wins4 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil WarDrew Gilpin Faust200828 pts2 wins6 listsVintage BooksHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green ZoneRajiv Chandrasekaran200626 pts3 wins5 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentWar & Military Strategy
The Fate of the EarthJonathan Schell198226 pts2 wins5 listsKnopfWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll200424 pts3 wins3 listsPenguin BooksWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten GenocideGary J. Bass201324 pts2 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Grant: A BiographyWilliam S. McFeely198122 pts2 wins4 listsW. W. NortonBiographyWar & Military Strategy+2
Red Famine: Stalin's War on UkraineAnne Applebaum201720 pts2 wins4 listsDoubledayHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End WarMargaret MacMillan200218 pts3 wins3 listsJohn MurrayHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration CampsNikolaus Wachsmann201618 pts2 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's VietnamFredrik Logevall201218 pts2 wins3 listsRandom HouseHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945James MacGregor Burns197018 pts2 wins3 listsHarcourt Brace JovanovichWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832Alan Taylor201318 pts1 wins4 listsW. W. NortonHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Hitler 1936-1945: NemesisIan Kershaw200116 pts1 wins3 listsAllen LaneHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of IraqSteve Coll202516 pts0 wins5 listsPenguin PressPolitics & GovernmentAmerican Civil War+2
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early AmericaPeter Silver200814 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonHistoryWar & Military Strategy
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American WarEvan Wright200414 pts2 wins2 listsG. P. Putnam's SonsWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's RussiaRichard Overy200414 pts2 wins2 listsAllen LaneHistoryWar & Military Strategy+3
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863Edward L. Ayers200314 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of WarPeter Maass199614 pts2 wins2 listsVintage BooksWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of ExpansionElliott West202414 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of Nebraska PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for JusticeMary Fulbrook201914 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of EverestWade Davis201214 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American HistoryJohn Fabian Witt201214 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPherson198814 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
A Stillness at AppomattoxBruce Catton195314 pts1 wins2 listsPocket BooksHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+3
Across the Wide MissouriBernard DeVoto194714 pts1 wins2 listsHoughton MifflinHistoryWar & Military Strategy+3
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914Christopher Clark201314 pts2 wins4 listsAllen LaneHistoryWorld War I+2
Russia against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe 1807 to 1814Dominic Lieven200912 pts1 wins2 listsAllen LaneHistoryEurope & Russia+1
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against HumanityPhilippe Sands201612 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945Saul Friedländer200912 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsHistoryWorld War I+2
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarVincent Brown202012 pts2 wins3 listsBelknap PressHistoryVietnam War+2
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s WarArkady Ostrovsky201512 pts2 wins3 listsAtlantic BooksPolitics & GovernmentEurope & Russia+1
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766Fred Anderson200012 pts2 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan EyesAnand Gopal201412 pts1 wins3 listsMetropolitan BooksWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918Adam Hochschild201112 pts1 wins4 listsHarperCollinsWar & MilitaryWorld War I+2
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global PowerSergey Radchenko202410 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressPolitics & GovernmentWar & Military Strategy+2
Homelands: A Personal History of EuropeTimothy Garton Ash202310 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentSocial Movements & Activism+3
The American War in Afghanistan: A HistoryCarter Malkasian202110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+3
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of SlaveryJoseph P. Reidy202010 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and PakistanSteve Coll201810 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945Waldo Heinrichs, Marc Gallicchio201810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryPresidency & Executive Power+3
Border Law: The First Seminole War and American NationhoodDeborah A. Rosen201610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+3
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil WarStephen R. Platt201110 pts1 wins1 listsAtlantic BooksHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West PointElizabeth D. Samet200710 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English AmericaChristopher Tomlins200610 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947Christopher Clark200610 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryReligion & Religious Movements+2
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our TimesOdd Arne Westad200510 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to AnotherPhilip Ball200410 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentLabor, Work & Organizing+3
In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World WarDavid Reynolds200410 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneWar & MilitaryEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940Julian Jackson200310 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943Rick Atkinson200210 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern WorldRoy Porter200110 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the WorldWalter Russell Mead200110 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentEmpire & Colonialism+3
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-To-Face Killing In Twentieth-Century WarfareJoanna Bourke199910 pts1 wins1 listsGranta BooksWar & MilitaryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan RelationsWalter LaFeber199710 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+3
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to KhrushchevVladislav Zubok, Constantine Pleshakov199610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of GermanyJohn Röhl199510 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressBiographyEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World WarLynn H. Nicholas199410 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab WorldKanan Makiya199310 pts1 wins1 listsJonathan CapePolitics & GovernmentTravel, Exploration & Place+3
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave ConspiracyWinthrop D. Jordan199310 pts1 wins1 listsLSU PressHistoryScience & Discovery+3
Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord StatesDorothy V. Jones199110 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressPolitics & GovernmentIndigenous History+3
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of MemoryLawrence L. Langer199110 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+2
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the AmericansCharles Royster199110 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfWar & MilitaryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
How War CameDonald Cameron Watt198910 pts1 wins1 listsWilliam HeinemannHistoryWar & Military Strategy
Lloyd George: From Peace to War, 1912-1916John Grigg198510 pts1 wins1 listsMethuenHistoryAmerican Politics+1
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century EnglandAntonia Fraser198410 pts1 wins1 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonGender & SexualityGender & Feminism+3
Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War Against Japan, 1941-1945Christopher Thorne197810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+3
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962Alistair Horne197710 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanWar & MilitaryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi OccupationIsaiah Trunk197210 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil WarRobert Manson Myers197210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
The European Discovery of America: The Northern VoyagesSamuel Eliot Morison197110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryScience & Discovery+3
Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836William W. Freehling196810 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsHistoryMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+3
The United States and the Origins of the Cold WarJohn Lewis Gaddis196810 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and RevolutionN. Gordon Levin Jr.196810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryAmerican Politics+1
Portrait of a General; Sir Henry Clinton in the War of IndependenceWilliam B. Willcox196410 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfWar & MilitaryRegional & Local History+1
Pearl Harbor: Warning and DecisionRoberta Wohlstetter196210 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Mary Chesnut's Civil WarC. Vann Woodward198210 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big OilAndrew Nikiforuk200210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
The Great War for the EmpireLawrence H. Gipson195010 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfWar & MilitaryEmpire & Colonialism+2
The Hundred Years War, vol. III: Divided HousesJonathan Sumption201010 pts1 wins1 listsFaber & FaberHistoryEurope & Russia+1
The Organized War, 1863–1864 and The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865Allan Nevins197210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Control from 1500-2000Paul Kennedy198910 pts1 wins1 listsUnwin HymanHistoryMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+2
The Undeclared WarWilliam L. Langer, S. Everett Gleason195410 pts1 wins1 listsHarper & BrothersHistoryWar & Military Strategy
The War: Fourth YearEdgar McInnis194410 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+1
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian RevolutionYuri Slezkine201710 pts2 wins3 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryReligion & Religious Movements+3
No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime SyriaRania Abouzeid201810 pts1 wins3 listsOneworldWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/IraqJohn W. Dower201010 pts1 wins3 listsW. W. NortonWar & MilitaryWorld War Ii+2
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in IraqThomas E. Ricks200610 pts1 wins3 listsPenguin BooksWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967David Maraniss200210 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil WarRobert J. Gordon201610 pts1 wins3 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922David Fromkin198910 pts0 wins3 listsHenry HoltHistoryMiddle East & North Africa+3
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil WarAndrew Delbanco20198 pts2 wins2 listsPenguin PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarSusan Southard20158 pts2 wins2 listsVikingHistoryGrief, Trauma & Recovery+3
The Good SoldiersDavid Finkel20098 pts2 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxWar & MilitaryBlack History & Culture+3
Keeping MumBrian Thompson20068 pts2 wins2 listsAtlantic BooksMemoir & AutobiographyWar & Military Strategy+3
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on TerrorismGeoffrey R. Stone20058 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonPolitics & GovernmentIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+2
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All awards · Topic: War & Military Strategy · Sorted by score · 482 books · filtered