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A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Publisher Comments In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home ? physically whole but... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Compact Disc
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A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Publisher Comments In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home ? physically whole but... (read more) Your price: $39.97 New - Compact Disc
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A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Publisher Comments In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home ? physically whole but... (read more) Your price: $19.99 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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The Naval War of 1812 by Theodore Roosevelt Publisher Comments Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject. It caused considerable controversy for its... (read more) Your price: $44.99 New - Compact Disc
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Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor by Bill Sloan Publisher Comments Called a master of the combat narrative” (The Dallas Morning News), author Bill Sloan captures the valor, fortitude, and suffering of the American defenders of the Philippines as no other author has. Abandoned by their government, the men and... (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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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: $24.99 New - MP3 CD
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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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Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship by Bill White Synopsis In the annals of military history, a certain breed of warrior stands out above all others. These are warriors who, as if guided by destiny, gravitate to the center of the great clashes of their time. Such a warrior was the 27,000 ton aircraft carrier... (read more) Your price: $27.25 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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War and the Future by H. G. Wells Publisher Comments H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particularly the introduction... (read more) Your price: $20.00 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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Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic by Ed Offley Publisher Comments The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor, but rather in the period from 1942 to 1943, in the frigid North Atlantic and American coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Compact Disc
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War: The Opening Shots: August 1914 - April 1915 (Forgotten Voices) by Max Arthur Publisher Comments In 1972, a team of academics and archivists from the Imperial War Museum set about the momentous task of tracing ordinary men and women who lived through one of the most harrowing periods in modern history, the First World War. Veterans from Britain... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Compact Disc
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn---The Last Great Battle of the American West by Jim Donovan Publisher Comments In June 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public... (read more) Your price: $79.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu Synopsis 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 Tzu's treatise on... (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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