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Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy

Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

Richard Overy

1040 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.5philofox's review
nonfiction history adventurous emotional medium-paced
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan

The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme

John Keegan

352 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

4.0philofox's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger by Gerhard P. Gross

The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger

Foreign Military Studies

Gerhard P. Gross

464 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0philofox's review
nonfiction history
Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-18 by Dennis Showalter

Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-18

General Military

Dennis Showalter

328 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.5philofox's review
nonfiction history
Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-18 by Dennis Showalter

Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-18

General Military

Dennis Showalter

328 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.5philofox's review
nonfiction history
The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany During the Machine Age, 1870-1918 by Eric Dorn Brose

The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany During the Machine Age, 1870-1918

Eric Dorn Brose

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.5philofox's review
nonfiction history medium-paced
Flesh and Steel During the Great War: The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare by Michel Goya

Flesh and Steel During the Great War: The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare

Michel Goya

344 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0philofox's review
nonfiction history
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by John Woodward, Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

John Woodward, Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

708 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

4.5philofox's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

25 hours • first pub 2012 (editions)

4.5philofox's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the Great War by Antulio J. Echevarria II

After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the Great War

Antulio J. Echevarria II

346 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

4.0philofox's review
nonfiction informative medium-paced