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Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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Last Men Out: The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam by Bob Drury Publisher Comments On April 30, 1975, for twenty-four straight harrowing hours, a small band of U.S. Marines exhibited exceptional bravery to evacuate thousands from Saigon as North Vietnamese forces surged toward the city. Based on a wealth of recently declassified... (read more) Your price: $83.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aides by Henrik Eberle Publisher Comments Joseph Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the... (read more) Your price: $79.99 New - Compact Disc
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Blackhorse Riders: A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot by Philip Keith Publisher Comments Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry, the famed Blackhorse Regiment, was a specialized cavalry outfit equipped with tanks and armored assault vehicles. On the morning of March 26, 1970, they began hearing radio... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence by A. J. Langguth Publisher Comments A gripping narrative of the second and final war of independence that secured the nation's permanence and established its claim to the entire continent, by the author of the enormously successful and acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific by Larry Smith Publisher Comments On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American soldiers invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 soldiers died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the... (read more) Your price: $69.99 New - Compact Disc
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American Heroes in Special Operations by Oliver North Publisher Comments From the jungles of the Southern Philippines to the Horn of Africa to the deserts of Iraq and lonely outposts in Afghanistan, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines of U.S. Special Operations Command undertake daring missions in some of the most... (read more) Your price: $79.97 New - Compact Disc
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu Publisher Comments It is not too often one can read or listen to a 2600 year-old book and know that it still has relevance and importance today. The Art of War has long been considered not only a military classic, but a classic book in general. Sun Tzus treatise on various... (read more) Your price: $10.98 New - Compact Disc
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Village by Bing West Publisher Comments Few American battles have been so extended, savage, and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are not a lost footnote about how... (read more) Your price: $83.99 New - Compact Disc
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To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War Over Germany by Robert J. Mrazek Publisher Comments On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories. Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's... (read more) Your price: $83.99 New - Compact Disc
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Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse Publisher Comments Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were "isolated incidents" in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few "bad apples." However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this... (read more) Available May 2013 Your price: $34.95 New - Compact Disc
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And the Show Went on: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding Publisher Comments In the weeks after the Germans captured Paris, theaters, opera houses, and nightclubs reopened to occupiers and French citizens alike, and they remained open for the duration of the war. Alan Riding introduces a pageant of twentieth-century artists who... (read more) Your price: $95.99 New - Compact Disc
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World by Paul Cartledge Publisher Comments It is one of historys most acclaimed battles, one of civilizations greatest last stands. And in Thermopylae, renowned classical historian Paul Cartledge looks anew this history-altering moment and, most impressively, shows how its repercussions have... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Compact Disc
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham Publisher Comments The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of historys towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon... (read more) Your price: $37.95 New - Compact Disc
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At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Turned the Tide of World War II by Sam Moses Publisher Comments In this astonishing untold account of heroism and history, two American Merchant Mariners board a burning and sinking ship in the Mediterranean and change the course of World War II.In 1942, the small Mediterranean island of Malta was the most heavily... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by Bruce Henderson Publisher Comments In February 1966, U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over "neutral Laos." He crashed deep in territory controlled by North Vietnamese army regulars and the communist Pathet Lao, who would eventually capture him and hold him prisoner in a... (read more) Your price: $69.99 New - Compact Disc
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Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19 by Lawrence Malkin Publisher Comments Presents the story of a World War II counterfeiting plot by the Nazis in which SS officer Bernhard Krueger attempted to undermine the world financial system, a conspiracy in which he enlisted the skills of a group of concentration-camp Jews.... (read more) Your price: $59.99 New - Compact Disc
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Secret Empire (Library Edition): Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage by Philip Taubman Publisher Comments "In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations-including the U2 spy plane and Corona, the... (read more) Your price: $89.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa, 1945-The Last Epic Struggle of World War II by Bill Sloan Publisher Comments "The Ultimate Battle" is the full story of the largest land-sea-air battle ever waged by the U.S., a battle whose staggering casualties and take-no-prisoners ferocity led Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Unabridged. 8 CDs.... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Compact Disc
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The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments Now a feature film. In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US army. Defying all known accepted military practice ? and, indeed, the laws of physics ? they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Compact Disc
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