The Face of Battle
1976 · 364 pages
Keegan asked what a battle feels like to the man standing in it, and answered through Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. He put the reader inside the ranks and remade military history.
★ 6.9
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Starship Troopers
1959 · 279 pages
Heinlein's teenage recruit drops from orbit in powered armor and sits through the case that only veterans should vote. His politics still start fights, and his suit outfits half of science fiction.
★ 4.8