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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell Publisher Comments Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag Publisher Comments Two investigative reporters and a researcher tell the epic story of American espionage from the early Cold War Years to the Clinton Administration, showing how the Navy and CIA have used submarines to gather intelligence and launch covert operations... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Killer Elite (Previously Published as the Feather Men) by Ranulph Fiennes Publisher Comments The “enthralling page-turner” (Library Journal) now a major motion picture starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro Here is a gripping novel, inspired by real-life events, about a private team of British vigilantes that sets out... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 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 $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills by Charles Henderson Publisher Comments Tells the exciting true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Flyboys by James Bradley Publisher Comments James Bradley's #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers made real the humanity and legacy of war as few books had before. Now, in Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary-and totally unknown-true story of courage.Over the remote Pacific... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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One Shot One Kill: One Shot One Kill by Charles W Sasser Publisher Comments They are the lone wolves of the battlefield. Tracking the enemy, lying in wait for the target to appear -- then they shoot to kill. Armed with an unerring eye, infinite patience and a mastery of camouflage, combat snipers stalk the enemy with only one... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Seals: Udt Seal Operations in Vietnam by T L Bosiljevac Publisher Comments "For the most detailed account we've seen of SEAL involvedment in Vietnam check out SEALs." SOLDIER OF FORTUNTE In January 1962, two Sea, Air, and Land Teams were formed. Commissioned to operate up to twenty miles inland in enemy territory, they would... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold Moore Publisher Comments The true story of the U.S. soldiers who fought at one of the most savage and significant battles in Vietnam. "A gut-wrenching account of what war is really all about, which should be 'must' reading for all Americans."--Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (Ret.).... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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D-Day with the Screaming Eagles by George Koskimaki Publisher Comments As Allied forces prepare to launch an all-out offensive on the beaches of Normandy, the daring paratroopers and glider pilots of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles," make a perilous landing over occupied France, in an oral history of the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Yeager, an Autobiography by Chuck Yeager Publisher Comments Chuck Yeager tells his whole life story, from childhood with a hard working father, to breaking the sound barrier, to being a test pilot with the "right stuff".... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Hunters & Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam by Bill Fawcett Publisher Comments A riveting, pulse–pounding history of SEALs special operations in the words of the heroes who lived it. The U.S. Navy SEALs have long been considered among the finest, most courageous and professional soldiers in American military history– an... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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JG 26 by Donald L Caldwell Publisher Comments This is the story of the JG 26 pilots, or "Abbeville Kids." A microcosm of World War II exists in the rise and fall of this famous fighter wing--whose slashing attacks always seemed to come from the best position--from its founding during Hitler's... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan by Malcolm Macpherson Publisher Comments Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the mans fellow Navy SEALs, and for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one rule... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II by Peter G Tsouras Publisher Comments History experts offer stimulating and entirely plausible insights into how Hitler and his generals might have defeated the Allies and a convincing sideways look at the Third Reichs bid at world domination in World War II. Includes 31 photos and 13 maps.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War by John T Halliday Publisher Comments In this compelling account, Halliday takes readers inside a top-secret air base and into the cockpit of an antiquated plane that was a lifeline for special forces on the ground in 1970 Laos during the Vietnam War.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Eric L Haney Publisher Comments One of the founding operatives of America's elite counter terrorism unit, Delta Force, delivers this never-before-told inside story of how the unit came to be.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam by James R Ebert Publisher Comments This provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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