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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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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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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harms Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory. Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Escape from Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War by John D Lukacs Publisher Comments One of the greatest Pacific war stories never told. On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escape from one of Japan's most notorious prison camps. Called the "greatest story of the war in the Pacific... (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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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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Jutland 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes by Nigel Steel Publisher Comments Based on letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs, interviews, books and other sources, this detailed study examines the whole event from the perspective of participants on both sides and from all ranks. Relive the dramatic intensity of the battle, and the... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II by Richard Snow Publisher Comments Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him—what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign. In that global conflagration, only one battle—the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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All American, All the Way: A Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II: From Sicily to Normandy by Phil Nordyke Publisher Comments The 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into history on 9 July 1943 when they led Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. Less than a year from their formation in August 1942, the All Americans (the name of the division in World War I when Sgt. Alvin York... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret History of MI6, 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery Publisher Comments andquot;Jeffery's book is perhaps the most authentic account one will ever read about how intelligence really works.andquot; --The Washington Times Britain 's Special Intelligence Service, commonly called MI6, is not only the oldest and most storied... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. Barbara Ehrenreich by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Blood Rites takes us... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Gun by C J Chivers Publisher Comments At a secret arms-design contest in Stalins Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Blocs standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and unimpressive, it was... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Samurai Sword: A Handbook by John M Yumoto Publisher Comments The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of artisans, the samurai sword is generally... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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French Airborne Troops Wings and Insignia: From the Origins to the Present Day by Jacques Baltzer Synopsis This book was originally announced over a year ago under the title Insignes et Brevets des Parachutistes Franaises and was, unfortunately, delayed. Now it is on track again and will be available at the very beginning of January.Not only does each parent... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M Edsel Publisher Comments At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, July - August, 1943 by Carlo Deste Publisher Comments Bitter Victory illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatment until now. In recounting the second-largest amphibious operation in military history, Carlo D'Este for the first time reveals the conflicts in planning... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 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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Dying for Saint-Lo: Hedgerow Hell, July 1944 by Didier Lodieu Publisher Comments From 5 to 20 July 1944 American invasion forces ran into fierce resistance around the French town of Saint-Lo, an important railway and road communications center in Normandy. As well as the Heer divisions such as the Panzer Lehr, GIs had to fight the... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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