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Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor Publisher Comments In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al Qaida-after easily defeating the ragtag Taliban that had sheltered the terrorist organization behind... (read more) List Price $17.00 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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Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy, Robert P. Hanssen by Lawrence Schiller Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of "American Tragedy" and "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town" comes an even more stunning portrayal of America's dark side. "Into the Mirror" is the shocking story of FBI Special Agent Robert P. Hanssen, the master spy who... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf by Owen Connelly Publisher Comments "The man makes the book. The man is Owen Connelly, a serious student of war and an experienced soldier-leader. His book On War and Leadership will serve for many years as a valuable reference for scholars and a vital source of inspiration and instruction... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $14.98 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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War by Sebastian Junger Staff Pick When the author of The Perfect Storm writes, "War is insanely exciting," you have to assume he knows what he's talking about. Sure enough, Junger's new book offers a thrilling account of the sustained adrenaline rush that is modern warfare, coupled with... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez Publisher Comments He is the only original World War II Navajo code talker still alive—and this is his story . . . His name wasn’t Chestesr Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Secrets of Rue ST Roch by Janet Morgan Publisher Comments Subtitled, "Hope & Heroism Behind Enemy Lines In The First World War". The full account of an Allied spying operation during the First World War, led by intelligence officer George Bruce of 41 Rue St Roch in Paris.... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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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Crossing the Rhine: Breaking Into Nazi Germany 1944 and 1945--The Greatest Airborne Battles in History by Lloyd Clark Synopsis In September 1944, with the Allies eager to break into Nazi Germany after Normandy, thirty-five thousand U.S. and British troops parachuted into Nazi held territory in the Netherlands. The controversial offensive, code named Operation Market Garden, was... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Gods Terrorists the Wahhabi Cult & the H by Charles Allen Publisher Comments What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who... (read more) Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Gulf Between Us: A Story of Love and Survival in Desert Storm by Cynthia B Acree Publisher Comments THE GULF BETWEEN US offers a rare look inside the life of a military family. When Col. Acree was shot down and captured on the second day of the Gulf War, Cynthia Acree began her own form of captivity at the center of an international media storm. With... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W Dower Publisher Comments Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Heinz Guderian Publisher Comments A rare, enlightening account by an outstanding soldier reveals his thoughts and theories on armored warfare and motorized land battle--which he then put in action to devastating effect during World War Two. Guderian's treatise on the importance of tank... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $7.98 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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The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Brian Holden Reid Publisher Comments The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and a defining moment of the nineteenth century. In this concise and authoritative volume, Brian Holden Reid -- a leading expert on the subject -- reveals how industrialization and emerging methods... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blitzkrieg No Longer: The German Wehrmacht in Battle, 1943 by Samuel W Mitcham Publisher Comments A pivotal year of World War II through German eyes The campaigns of the German army, air force, and navy described by a master storyteller Covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war, and air battles After a crushing... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Road to Baghdad: Behind Enemy Lines: The Adventures of an American Soldier in the Gulf War by Martin Stanton Publisher Comments In 1990, U.S. Army Major Martin Stanton was a military advisor stationed in Saudi Arabia. Encouraged by the Army to broaden his cultural horizons, and assured by the U.S. embassy that Kuwait was perfectly safe, Stanton took off for a long weekend there... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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