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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters Publisher Comments Now in paperback! The New York Times bestseller and war memoir from the commander of the legendary Band of Brothers??now with a new preface from Dick Winters. They were called Easy Company?but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper by Howard E Wasdin Publisher Comments When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard E. Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments Two harrowing crashes . . . A vanished rescue plane . . . A desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land . . . The quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a gripping... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $20.29 Sale - Hardcover
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From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature by Randall Fuller Publisher Comments This book considers the effects of the American civil war on those writers and artists who helped their young nation imagine itself. the writers and artists of the early to mid-nineteenth century. One of the war's many traumas was the pain of witnessing... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments "This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." — Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #12: Saladin by David Nicolle Publisher Comments This Osprey Command book looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf Ibn Najm al-Din Ayyub Ibn Shahdi Abu'l-Muzaffar Salah al-Din - or Saladin as he is more commonly known outside the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #10: Marlborough: The Background, Strategies, Tactics and Battlefield Experiences of the Greatest Commanders of History by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is one of the great commanders of history. Using his great charm and diplomatic skills he was able to bind troops from various European states into a cohesive army that won a string of victories over the French... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #06: Toyotomi Hideyoshi by Stephen Turnbull Publisher Comments Arguably the greatest military commander in the history of the samurai, Toyotomi Hideyoshi rose from the ranks of the peasantry to rule over all Japan. A student of the great unifier Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi would later avenge the murder of his master at... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #05: Erwin Rommel by Pier Battistelli Publisher Comments Nicknamed 'The Desert Fox' for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany's World War II commanders. He got his first taste of combat in World War I, where his daring command earned him... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel Publisher Comments A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE SLATE.COM THE BOSTON GLOBE THE KANSAS CITY STAR THE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND) THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITORWINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM It was the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars by Kurt Eichenwald Publisher Comments Kurt Eichenwald—New York Times bestselling author of Conspiracy of Fools and The Informant— recounts the first 500 days after 9/11 in a comprehensive, compelling page-turner as gripping as any thriller. In 500 Days, master chronicler... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Command #18: Eisenhower: The Background, Strategies, Tactics and Battlefield Experiences of the Greatest Commanders of History by Steven J Zaloga Publisher Comments Dwight Eisenhower represented a fundamentally new type of military commander in the 20th century: commander as manager rather than the traditional warrior commander. Armies had become so large and military coalitions so dependent on politics that this... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #14: Garibaldi by Ron Field Publisher Comments This book looks closely at the life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Born on July 4, 1807 in the city of Nice, the turning point in his life occurred in April 1833 when he met Giovanni Battista Cuneo, a member of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch: Skull-Crushing True Stories of the Most Hardcore Duels, Showdowns, Fistfights, Last Stands, Suicide Charges, and Military Engagements of All Time by Ben Thompson Publisher Comments Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch! This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #04: Julius Caesar: The Background, Strategies, Tactics and Battlefield Experiences of the Greatest Commanders of History by Nic Fields Publisher Comments One of the greatest military commanders in history, Julius Caesar's most famous victory - the conquest of Gaul - was to him little more than a stepping stone to power. An audacious and decisive general, his victories over the Gauls allowed him to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts Publisher Comments Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war—the grand strategy and the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #16: Horatio Nelson: Leadership, Strategy, Conflict by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after Nelson's death. A young officer during the American... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #09: Bernard Montgomery: The Background, Strategies, Tactics and Battlefield Experiences of the Greatest Commanders of History by Tim Moreman Publisher Comments This Osprey Command title looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), perhaps the best-known, most highly respected and most... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Command #01: Napoleon Bonaparte: The Background, Strategies, Tactics and Battlefield Experiences of the Greatest Commanders of History by Greg Fremont Barnes Publisher Comments Gregory Fremont-Barnes holds a doctorate in Modern History from Oxford University. A visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he has written on a wide range of military and naval subjects... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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