- A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
- Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
- Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History by T. R. Fehrenbach
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
- The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; R. Strassler, ed.
- Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
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