Books like The devil theory of war by Charles Austin Beard

War is a Racket exposes how war profiteers benefit while ordinary soldiers suffer, arguing that the military-industrial complex prioritizes profit over public welfare.

John Keegan offers a visceral, on‑the‑frontline view of combat, comparing three iconic battles—Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme—to reveal the physical, emotional, and motivational realities soldiers face.

Tense adventure in pre‑World War I East Africa, where infamous poacher O'Flynn and his youthful partner Oldsmith forge an unlikely alliance, battling savagery and German imperialism to seize fortune and justice.

Devil Take the Hindmost charts stock‑market speculation from the seventeenth century to today, showing how fear, greed and broader human drives—rather than pure profit motives—have shaped buyers, sellers and markets worldwide.

Lacouture wrote Vietnam Between Two Truces and a biography of Ho Chi Minh; both authors are liberal French experts on Indochina. This book was written in 1959, and they have added a section. But the inch-by-blow narrative is not only extraordinarily rich and polished, if provides original illuminations of the Geneva Conference, its prelude and aftermath. The Korean War, the Chinese, the Four-Power meetings all figure with new significance, as do internal French developments and the judgments of the Americans who were paying the bills. All this in turn sheds sharper light on the persistently baffling concessions from Ho in 1954. There is regrettably little on Laos and Cambodia, but connections are drawn between the Manila Pact and U.S. intervention in Vietnam. For all its minutiae, the book is seldom picayune, owing to the authors' coolly graphic style and momentum. In the foreword they point to parallels and disanalogies with the U.S. war; in the body of the book, ""underlying continuities"" often obtrude. Scholars will be attracted to the topic; a broader range of readers will be attracted to the names; both will be amply rewarded.

An analytical exploration of the United States’ foreign policy decisions and their consequences, examining how diplomatic actions have shaped international relations.

Explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern Europe; Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Bessarabia. The human cost was staggering: during the two years of the pact hundreds of thousands of people in central and eastern Europe caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or killed.