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The $100 Startup: Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better to Live More

By Chris Guillebeau

Security and Defence Policy in the European Union

By Jolyon Howorth

Private Armies and Military Intervention

By David Shearer

We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age

By Laurie Calhoun

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

By Malcolm Gladwell

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

By Paul Kennedy

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War

By Simon Parkin

Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century

By Rod Thornton (King's College, London)

The Lost Battle: Crete, 1941

By C. A. MacDonald

Strategy: A History

By Sir Lawrence Freedman (Professor of War Studies, Professor of War Studies, King's College London, London)

The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II

By John Mosier

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

By Sir Lawrence Freedman

Security: A New Framework for Analysis

By Barry Buzan

Invasion! D-Day & Operation Overlord in One Hundred Moments

By Scott Addington

I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict

By Kenneth Payne

Close Combat

By United States Marine Corps

Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security

By Kip Hawley, Nathan Means

International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects

By Michael E. Smith

The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944-45

By Peter Haining

International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects

By Michael E. Smith

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

The American Civil War

By John Keegan

Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine, 1939-45

By James Lucas

The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age

By David E. Sanger

The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results

By Stephen Bungay

Gallipoli

By Alan moorehead

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost

By Patrick Marnham

Carl von Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (A Book that Shook the World)

By Hew Strachan

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

European Security in the Nuclear Age

By James H. Wyllie