The Bookshelf

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  2026 Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel · review
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  2026 The Pashtuns a Contested History – Tilak Deveshar · review
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  2026 India from Curzon to Nehru and after – Durga Das · note
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  2026 Command in War – Martin Van Creveld · review
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  2026 At dawn we slept – Gordon Parange · review
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  2026 Another India – Prataniv Anil · review
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  2026 The Golden Road – William Dalrymple · review
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  2026 The Essentials of Hinduism – Trilochan Sastry · note
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  2026 Bertrand Russel – An autobiography · note
• 2026 Four Crises- GS Iyer
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  2026 The Elements of Power – Nicholas Niarchos · note
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  2026 Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century – John W. Garver · review
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  2025 Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat By Narlikar, Amitabh Mattoo and Amrita Narlikar · review
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  2025 To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers by Bruce D Jones · review
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  2025 How Prime Ministers Decide – Neerja Chowdhury · review
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  2025 Original Sin – Israel Palestine and the Revenge of Old West Asia – Stanly Johny · note
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  2025 Power and Progress – Darron Acemoglo and Simon Johnson · review
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  2025 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L Shirer · review
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  2025 The Art of Military Innovation – Lessons from the Israel Defence Forces · review
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  2025 A New History of India- From its Origins to Twenty-First Century - Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Shobita Punja and Toby Sinclair · review
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  2025 Ambedkar a life – Shashi Tharoor · review
• 2025 Nexus – Yuval Noah Harari
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  2025 The Future is Faster Than you Think – Peter H Diamands and Steven Kotler · note
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  2025 The British Way of War – Andrew Lambert · note
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  2025 Shattered lands – Five partitions and the making of modern India - Sam Dalrymple · review
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  2025 China a History – John Keay · review
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  2025 Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty – Daren Acemoglu and James A Robinson · note
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  2025 The Biology of belief – Bruce H Lipton · review
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  2025 Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine – Robert Malley and Hussein Agha · note
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  2024 Indian Summer- Alex Von Tunzelmann · review
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  2024 The Origins of a Dispute – Prem Shankar Jha · review
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  2024 India’s Strategic Culture: The Making of National Security Policy – Shrikant Paranjape · note
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  2024 Dethroned – Patel, Menon and the Integration of Princely India - John Zubrzycki Jan · review
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  2024 The Case for India – Will Durrant · review
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  2024 Anger Management - The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship Between India and Pakistan – Ajay Bisaria · review
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  2024 Hindus of Hindustan – A Civilisational Journey - Meenakshi Jain · review
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  2024 Command – The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine – Lawrence Freedman · review
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  2024 Hitler and Churchill – Secrets of Leadership – Andrew Roberts · review
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  2024 The Coming Wave – Mustafa Suleyman · review
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  2024 India’s Moment – Changing Power Equations Around the World -Mohan Kumar · review
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  2024 A New Idea of India- The Civilisational Republic – Harsh Madhusudan Rajeev Mantri · review
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  2024 Tomorrow the World - The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy - Stephen Wertheim · review
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  2024 The Limits of Power- The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J Bacevich · review
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  2024 The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert Kaplan · review
• 2024 Road, Winds, Spices in the Western Indian Ocean – The Memory and Geopolitics of Maritime Heritage – edited by Nutan Kapoor Mahwar and Pragya Pandey
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  2024 Leadership in War – Andrew Roberts · note
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  2024 Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel · review
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  2024 How States Think the Rationality of Foreign Policy – John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato · review
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  2024 The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost by Cathal J. Nolan · review
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  2024 The Promise of Power The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan – Maya Tudor · review
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  2024 The Return of the Taliban - Afghanistan after the Americans Left · review
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  2024 World on the Brink – Dmitri Alperovitch with Garett M. Graff · review
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  2024 Mao’s Army goes to Sea – Toshi Yoshihara · review
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  2024 Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future – Ed Conway · note
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  2024 Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan · review
• 2024 Empires of the sea - Radhika Seshan
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  2024 The Cold war A World History – Odd Arne Westad · review
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  2024 How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive – Marcel Dirsus · review
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  2023 Supreme Command - Elliot A Cohen · review
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  2023 Arleigh Burke- EB Potter · review
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  2023 From Mahan to Pearl Harbor - The imperial Japanese Navy and the United States - Sadao Asada · note
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  2023 American Generalship, “ Character is everything ”- Edgar F Puryear · review
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  2023 1965 – A Western Sunrise – Shiv Kunal Verma · review
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  2023 Fractured Himalaya – Nirupama Rao · review
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  2023 The Nutmeg’s Curse – Amitav Ghosh · review
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  2023 Red Roulette - An Insider Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China – Desmond Shum · review
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  2023 Jinnah. India- Partition-Independence – Jaswant Singh · review
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  2023 Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World – Fareed Zakaria · review
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  2023 West Asia at War – Talmiz Ahmed · review
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  2023 How India sees the world – Shyam Saran · note
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  2023 India versus China- Why there are not friends – Kanti Bajpai · review
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  2023 Think again- The power of knowing what you don’t know – Adam Grant – Jul · review
• 2023 A China Primer - An Introduction to a Culture and a Neighbour – GS Iyer
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  2023 Twilight War - The Secret History Of America’s Thirty–Year Conflict With Iran- David Crist · review
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  2023 Return of the King – William Dalrymple · review
• 2023 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything Mauro F. Guillen
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  2023 A Short History of Humanity – How Migration Made Us Who We Are – Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe · note
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  2023 On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace – Donald Kagan – Oct · review
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  2023 Chip Wars – Chris Miller · review
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  2023 Oppenheimer – Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin – Nov · review
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  2023 Requiem for Battleship Yamato – Yoshida Mitsuru · note
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  2023 Conflict – David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts · review
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  2022 David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell · note
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  2022 Outliers- Malcom Gladwell · note
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  2022 How to lose a war at sea- Bill Fawcett · note
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  2022 Soldiering with dignity- Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw- Lt Gen Depinder Singh · note
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  2022 Homo Deus- Yuvul Noah Harari · note
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  2022 India’s military conflicts and diplomacy- Gen VP Malik · note
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  2022 Last stand of the tin can sailors - James D Hornfischer · note
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  2022 Code name God- Mani Bhaumik · note
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  2022 Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II John W Dower · note
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  2022 On intelligence- the history of espionage and the secret world - John Hughes- Wilson · review
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  2022 The price of admiralty- John Keegan · note
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  2022 The anatomy of failure in war - military misfortunes - Elliot Cohen and John Gooch · note
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  2022 Nelson’s Trafalgar- Roy Adkins · note
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  2022 AI and the future of power - Rajiv Malhotra · note
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  2022 1946- Last war of independence - Royal Indian Navy mutiny - Pramod Kapoor · note
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  2022 A sailors story V Adm N Krishnan · note
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  2022 Napoleon the great - Andrew Roberts · note
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  2022 How to read a book - Mortimer J Adler and Charles V Doren · note
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  2022 The new silk roads - Peter Frankopan · note
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  2022 Humankind a hopeful history- Rutger Bergman · note
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  2022 The mask of command - John Keegan · note
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  2022 History of warfare - John Keegan · note
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  2022 An era of darkness- Shashi Tharoor · note
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  2022 American Caesar - William Manchester · note
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  2022 The story of Russia- Orlando Figes · review
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  2022 Nehru- The invention of India Shashi Tharoor · review
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  2021 Kaigun - Strategy tactics and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887 - 1941 - David C Evans and Mark R Peattie · note
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  2021 Callsign Chaos - Jim Mattis and Bing West · note
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  2021 Ikigai - Hector Garcia · note
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  2021 Six days of war - Michael B Oren · note
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  2021 The pursuit of victory - The life and achievement of Horatio Nelson - Roger Knight · note
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  2021 Turn the ship around - L David Marquett · note
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  2021 World War II at sea- a global history Craig L Symonds · note
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  2021 China’s India War- Bertil Lintner · note
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  2021 Strategy in the missile age- Bernard Brodie · note
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  2021 Navies and foreign policy- Ken Booth · note
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  2021 India’s China War - Neville Maxwell · note
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  2021 Full spectrum - India’s War 1972-2020 - Arjun Subramaniam · note
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  2021 Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the real story of the atomic bombings - Paul Ham · note
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  2021 The costliest Pearl- China’s struggle for India’s ocean - Bertil Lintner · note
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  2021 Naval warfare in the 21st century - edited by Gerald Jordon · note
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  2021 Naval warfare - a global history since 1860 - Jeremy Black · note
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  2021 World Order - Henry Kissinger · note
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  2021 Battle at sea- John Keegan · note
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  2021 The strategy bridge - Colin Gray · note
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  2021 The Himalayan Blunder - Brig Dalvi · note
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  2021 Theories of international relations - Scott Burchill et al · note
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  2021 Shockwave- countdown to Hiroshima · note
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  2021 Pakistan’s nuclear bomb- a story of defiance, deterrence and deviance- Hassan Abbas · note
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  2021 A splendid exchange - How trade shaped the world - William J Bernstein · note
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  2021 Bloody Okinawa- the last great battle of World War II - Joseph Wheelan · note
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  2021 The Second World War - a strategic and tactical history- JFC Fuller · note
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  2021 Seapower states - Andrew Lambert · note
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  2021 Eating grass- the making of the Pakistani bomb - Feroz H Khan · note
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  2021 Making India great - the promise of a reluctant power - Aparna Pande · note
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  2021 The weapon wizards - how Israel became a high- tech military super power - Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot · note
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  2021 The years that changed India - Vajpayee Shakti Sinha · note
• 2021 India 2030- edited Gautam Chikermane
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  2021 The rise and fall of great powers - Paul Kennedy · note
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  2021 Guns germs and steel - Jared Diamond · note
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  2021 Genius weapons - Louis A Del Monte · note
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  2021 The inevitable - understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future - Kevin Kelly · note
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  2021 From Chankya to Modi: Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy- Aparna Pande · note
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  2021 Weapons of peace - the secret story of India’s quest to be a nuclear power - Raj Chengappa · note
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  2021 The man who bombed Karachi - SM Nanda · note
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  2021 Strategy the logic of war and peace - Edward N Luttwak · note
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  2021 A wonder that was India - AL Basham · note
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  2021 John Paul Jones - Samuel Eliot Morison · note
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  2021 A brief guide to maritime strategy- James R Holmes · note
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  2021 Japanese destroyer Captain- Capt Tameichi Hara · note
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  2021 19 stars- Edgar F Puryear · note
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  2021 Sea of thunder - Evan Thomas · note
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  2021 Leaders eat last - Simon Sinek · note
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  2021 At Dawn we slept - the untold story of Pearl Harbour - Gordon Prange with Donald M Goldstein and Katherine V Dillon · review
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  2021 American Admiralship- Edgar F Puryear · note
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  2021 The challenge of command - Roger H Nye · note
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  2021 Leyte- Samuel Eliot Morison · note
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  2021 Sea battles - A thousand years of naval conflict Salamis to Tsuhima 480 BC - 1905 - John Richard Hale · note
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  2021 The new map Energy Climate and the clash of nations - Daniel Yergin · note
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  2021 Nelson’s battles - Oliver Warner · note
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  2021 Prisoners of geography - ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics - Tim Marshall · note
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  2021 The long game - Vijay Gokhale · note
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  2021 The battle of Rezang La - Kulpreet Yadav · note
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  2021 Halsey’s Typhoon- Bob Drury and Tom Clavin · note
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  2021 Soldier and the state - Samuel Huntington · note
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  2019–2020 For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbour · note
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  2019–2020 Indian Ocean - Michael Pearson · note
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  2019–2020 Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger · note
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  2019–2020 Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harrari · note
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  2019–2020 At war at sea - Ronald H Spector · note
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  2019–2020 Ocean of churn - Sanjeev Sanyal · note
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  2019–2020 The Tsar’s last armada - Constantine Pleshkov · note
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  2019–2020 India’s wars - Arjun Subramaniam · note
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  2019–2020 On grand strategy - John Lewis Gaddis · note
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  2019–2020 The clash of the civilisations - Samuel P Huntington · note
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  2019–2020 The new rules of war - Sean McFate · note
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  2019–2020 Inventing grand strategy and teaching command - John Tetsuro Sumida · note
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  2019–2020 Reimagining Pakistan - Hussain Haqqani · note
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  2019–2020 Army of none - Paul Scharre · note
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  2019–2020 From Mahan to Pearl harbour - Sadao Asada · note
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  2019–2020 Early Indians : the story of our ancestors and where we came from - Tony Joseph · note
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  2019–2020 Strategy a history - Lawrence Freedman · note
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  2019–2020 Maritime strategy and continental wars - Raja Menon · note
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  2019–2020 Modern Strategy - Colin S Gray · note
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  2019–2020 Military Strategy - JC Wylie · note
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  2019–2020 Fleet tactics and coastal combat 2nd edition - Wayne P Hughes Jr · note
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  2019–2020 Evolution of nuclear strategy - Lawrence Freedman · note
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  2019–2020 To rule the waves - Arthur Herman · review
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  2019–2020 Fighting to the end - Christine Fair · note
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  2019–2020 The anarchy - William Dalrymple · note
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  2019–2020 Strategy trap - Lt Gen Prakash Menon · note
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  2019–2020 Limited war - revisiting Kargil in the Indo-Pak conflict - Dr Suba Chandran · note
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  2019–2020 Wired for war - PW Singer · note
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  2019–2020 On Strategy a primer - Nathan Finney · note
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  2019–2020 Four Crises and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia - Chari, Padmanabha Ranganath, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, and Stephen P. Cohen · note
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  2019–2020 South Asia’s Cold War Nuclear weapons and conflict in comparative perspective - Rajesh M. Basrur · note
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  2019–2020 A short history of the world- Christopher Lascelles · note
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  2019–2020 The India-Pakistan Military Standoff Crisis and Escalation in South Asia - Zachary S. Davis · note
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  2019–2020 India’s nuclear bomb: the impact on global proliferation- George Perkovich · note
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  2019–2020 The absent dialogue - Anit Mukherjee · note
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  2019–2020 Surrender at Dacca - JFR Jacob · note
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  2019–2020 India’s Way - S Jaishankar · note
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  2019–2020 Watershed 1967 - Probal Dasgupta · note
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  2019–2020 Pakistan - Courting the abyss - Tilak Deveshar · note
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  2019–2020 Leverage of seapower - Colin Gray · note
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  2019–2020 Sea power as strategy - navies and national interests - Norman Friedman · note
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  2019–2020 Naval blockade and seapower - strategies and counter-strategies, 1805- 2005 - Bruce Elleman and Sarah Paine · note
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  2019–2020 Operation X - Sandeep Unithan · note
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  2019–2020 Black Tornado - Sandeep Unithan · note
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  2019–2020 We dared - SN Kohli · note
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  2019–2020 Kargil - From surprise to victory - Gen VP Malik · note
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  2019–2020 R.N Kao - Gentleman spymaster - Nitin Gokhale · note
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  2019–2020 The idea of Pakistan- Stephen Cohen · note
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  2019–2020 India’s China Challenge - Ananth Krishnan · review
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  2019–2020 The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi - Robert Payne · note
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  2019–2020 The Admirals - Walter R Borneman · note
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  2019–2020 The quiet warrior - Thomas B Buell · note
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  2019–2020 Red star over the Pacific - Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes · note
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  2019–2020 A world in disarray - Richard Haas · note
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  2019–2020 Nimitz- EB Potter · note
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  2019–2020 The reluctant admiral Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy - H Agawa · note
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  2019–2020 The art of war - Martin Van Creveld · note
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  2019–2020 The battle that doomed Japan - Midway - Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya · note
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  2019–2020 Shattered sword - the untold story of the Battle of Midway - Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully · note
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  2019–2020 Not war, not peace - George Perkovich and Toby Dalton · note
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  2019–2020 A battle history of the Imperial Japanese Navy- Paul S Dull · note
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  2019–2020 The two ocean war- a short history of the US Navy in the Second World War - Samuel Elliot Morrison · note
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  2019–2020 The generals - Thomas E Ricks · note

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