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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Publisher Comments On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover 
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II by George Macdonald Fraser Publisher Comments George MacDonald Fraser--beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels--offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers a first-hand... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments The acclaimed British historian offers a majestic, single-volume work incorporating all major fronts-domestic, diplomatic, military-for "a stunning achievement of research and storytelling" (Publishers Weekly) It was to be the war to end all wars, and it... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific by Alistair Urquhart Publisher Comments Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda by Peter Bergen Publisher Comments TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq—only to move into Afghanistan, where the ten-year-old fight continues: the war on terror rages... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers—many of... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Price of Terror by Allan Gerson and Jerry Adler Synopsis The terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people and remains the largest mass death of Americans abroad during peacetime. This compelling and powerful narrative chronicles one man's impassioned search for justice for... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stealth Patrol by Bill Shanahan Publisher Comments From Stealth Patrol:"He spoke in a sort of clipped cadence, his words tumbling out quickly, one on top of the other; and his voice was deep and throaty, the way a bear might sound, if he could talk, after a night of drinking. 'Basically I'm here... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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All American, All the Way: The Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II: From Market Garden to Berlin by Phil Nordyke Publisher Comments On Sunday, September 17, 1944, the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into history with the First Allied Airborne Army in a daring daylight parachute and glider-borne assault to capture key bridges at the start of Operation Market Garden. Following weeks of... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pacific War by John Costello Publisher Comments John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Endgame 1945 Uk by David Stafford Publisher Comments To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story.... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words by Larry Smith Publisher Comments Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this powerful oral history offers the voices of veterans from every major war of the last sixty years, concluding with accounts of what it takes to train marines for... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Philippe P De Segur Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin (Smhs) by Tony Le Tissier Publisher Comments First detailed account of the Soviet advance on Berlin in the closing months of World War II The battles that made Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov famous Numerous maps illustrating how operations unfolded On January 31, 1945, the Red Army stood on a line... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Princeton Paperbacks) by Peter Paret Publisher Comments The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $21.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective by Paul Rieckhoff Publisher Comments As a First Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon Leader for the U.S. Army National Guard, Paul Rieckhoff was charged with leading thirty-eight men in Iraq. He spent almost a year in one of the bloodiest and most volatile areas of Baghdad. And when he finally... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack by Tom Nagorski Publisher Comments An unforgettable story of children in wartime, of heroism at sea, and -- above all -- of courage and the power of the human spirit On September 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The D-Day Companion: Leading Historians Explore History's Greatest Amphibious Assault by Jane Penrose Publisher Comments Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, ' The D-Day Companion' book brings together the perspectives and opinions of leading military historians from both sides of the Atlantic. Operation Overlord saw the Allied Generals... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.25 Sale - Hardcover
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