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Stories in Uniform: A Look at the Heroics, Sacrifices, and Triumps of Our Soldiers
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Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Bo
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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Roberts Ridge
Malcolm MacphersonMalcolm Macpherson 9780553803631
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Battleground Atlantic: How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of WW II
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Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto & the Imperial Navy
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s explosive account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special forces into competing covert manhunting and killing operations — the new American way of war Osama bin Laden’s... (read more)

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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
by William Dalrymple
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history... (read more)

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