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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote the New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now-classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Staff Pick "The title might give the impression that this book would be at home on Patton's shelf, but a glance at the chapter headings shows the book's true heart and mind: 'The Myth of War,' 'The Plague of Nationalism,' 'The Highjacking and Recovery of Memory... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford From Powells.com War is one of the few great literary topics. Since Homer immortalized the Trojan War 3,000 years ago, legions of writers have been glorifying, lamenting, dissecting, and parodying the soldier's life. So, can the world really bear yet another... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford From Powells.com War is one of the few great literary topics. Since Homer immortalized the Trojan War 3,000 years ago, legions of writers have been glorifying, lamenting, dissecting, and parodying the soldier's life. So, can the world really bear yet another... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright Publisher Comments A powerhouse work of nonfiction, Generation Kill expands on Evan Wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in Rolling Stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of First Recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson Publisher Comments Everybodys Gulf War Syndrome is a little bit different. Or so believes Larry, who returns home from Desert Storm to find his hair gone and his bones rapidly disintegrating. Then theres Lance Corporal James Laverne of the US Marines, who grows a third ear... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Buffalo Soldiers by Robert O'Connor Publisher Comments Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, Robert O'Connor's viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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We Pierce by Andrew Huebner Publisher Comments We Pierce is the story of two brothers: one brother, Smith, goes to war. A true believer, he leads a tank company into battle in Iraq during the Gulf War. There he learns about the true nature of patriotism, camaraderie, modern warfare and, finally, the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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But Was It Just?: Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War by Jean Bethke Elshtain Publisher Comments President George Bush said yes; some bishops said no; even Doonesbury touched on the question. But what does it mean, in any case, to say that a war is just? What are the yardsticks of justice that support President Bush's claim that it was just to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Man's Army by Andrew Exum Publisher Comments The first combat memoir of the War on Terrorism: the gripping story of a young mans transformation into a twenty-first-century warrior. Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Commanders by Bob Woodward Publisher Comments It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists. The Commanders, an account of the use of the military in the first Bush... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick Staff Pick Possibly unequaled in its detail and candor, One Bullet Away takes readers to the depths of Marine life, in peacetime and in war, all the while avoiding the clichés generally associated with military memoirs. Nathaniel Fick's bracing and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq by John F. Crawford Staff Pick John Crawford, like many others, joined the National Guard for college money, not to fight a war. Just short of graduating, he found himself called to active duty to serve in Baghdad during the Iraq invasion. A view of the war not portrayed on national... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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