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No. 1

Meditations

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No. 2

The Lessons of History

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No. 3

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

No. 4

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

No. 5

A Peace to End All Peace

David Fromkin

No. 6

A Savage War of Peace

Alistair Horne

No. 7

American Caesar

William Manchester

No. 8

Battle Cry of Freedom

James McPherson

No. 9

Before the First Shots Are Fired

Tony Zinni

No. 10

Boyd

Robert Coram

No. 11

Catastrophe 1914

Max Hasting

No. 12

Defeat into Victory

Viscount Slim

No. 13

Dereliction of Duty

H.R. McMaster

No. 14

Diplomacy

Henry Kissinger

No. 15

Duty

Robert Gates

No. 16

Fighting Power

Martin van Creveld

No. 17

Fighting Talk

Colin S. Gray

No. 18

For Country and Corps

Gail Shisler

No. 19

Goodbye, Darkness

William Manchester

No. 20

Invisible Armies

Max Boot

No. 21

Issues on My Mind

George P. Shultz

No. 22

Just and Unjust Wars

Michael Walzer

No. 23

Memoirs

Ulysses S. Grant

No. 24

Military Innovation in the Interwar Period

Williamson Murray