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    1. What Do We Know About War?, revised third edition, edited by Vasquez and McLaughlin Mitchell.  

      What Do We Know About Civil War?  2nd edition.  Eds, Mason and McLaughlin.  

      Great overviews of the research on war.  

    2. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela (Mexican Civil War)

      Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

      A Song of Stone by Iain Banks (doesn’t specify but read it was inspired by the Bosnian wars)

      All Quiet on the Western Front

      For Whom the Bell Tolls (Spanish American War)

    3. “On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace”, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

      “On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society”, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

      “What It Is Like To Go To War”, by Karl Marlantes

      “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”, by Karl Marlantes

      “War”, by Sebastian Junger

      “Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War”, by Mary Roach

      “Storm of Steel”, by Ernst Junger

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      April 1865. Walks through the chaos of that month of the American Civil War. An amazing read

    5. Generation Kill is a great book that was made into a great HBO show

      War, by Sebastian Junger is about a group of American soldiers in the most dangerous inhospitable region of Afghanistan

      Blackhawk Down is about American troops trying to survive in Somalia.

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