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We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. A war novel or military fiction is a novel about war. Students read books and come together usually in groups to demonstrate their abilities and to test their knowledge of the books they have read. The war for america, lexington to princeton, 17751777 the revolution trilogy rick atkinson. The art of war by sun tzumore than 2,000 years old and still relevant today, the art of war is a mustread book on military theory and strategy. List of books and articles about just war doctrine. Increasingly, it also handles the postwar issues of legal claims about war crimes committed previously. Ahmed naji, a penawardwinning novelist ensnared in a kafkaesque legal limbo, also sees.
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