Mila Dragojević, "Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War" (Cornell UP, 2019)

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Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)

American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the campaign against the Islamic State beginning in 2014 each had their own logic. Each occurrence was a distinct conflict; h ...  Show more

Tim Bouverie, "Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World" (Crown, 2025)

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