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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $20.99 Sale - Hardcover
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan Publisher Comments The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II — a bitter, sometimes violent clash of personalities and ideas that divided the nation and ultimately determined... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments and#147;For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispensable book.and#8221; and#151;Russell Baker Nantucket is a tiny island with a huge history. In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times-bestselling author Nathaniel... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service by Henry A. Crumpton Publisher Comments A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, American intelligence, and... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments Two harrowing crashes . . . A vanished rescue plane . . . A desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land . . . The quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a gripping... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $20.29 Sale - Hardcover
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Wrath of Cochise: The BASCOM Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars by Terry Mort Publisher Comments In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. Though... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Above the Din of War: Afghans Speak about Their Lives, Their Country, and Their Future-And Why America Should Listen by Peter Eichstaedt Publisher Comments What will happen when international forces finally vacate Afghanistan? The answer to that question is unknown, but if there is any hope for Afghanistan, veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt asserts, it is with its people. After spending 2004 in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Civil War Battlegrounds: The Illustrated History of the War's Pivotal Battles and Campaigns by Richard Sauers, Ph.d. Publisher Comments Although this deadliest of American wars took place a century and a half ago, its legacy —good and bad—is still felt today. The battlefields are haunting reminders of the blood that was spilled, their names echoing with history: Shiloh... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Trade Paper
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Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell by Peter Caddick-adams Publisher Comments The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino should stand among them. Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a medieval monastery, it was an astonishingly brutal... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Trident K9 Warriors: My Tales from the Training Ground to the Battlefield with Elite Navy Seal Canines by Michael Ritland Publisher Comments As Seen on "60 Minutes"! As a Navy SEAL during a combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew hed found his true calling. Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen Publisher Comments NOW AN HBO DOCUMENTARY In Manhunt, Peter Bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean Mcmeekin Publisher Comments When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, there was no indication that world war would be the result. Even Ferdinands own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole by Kirk S. Lippold Publisher Comments On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop. At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was rocked by an enormous explosion. The ship’s... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Measure of a Man: My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan by Kathleen Broome Williams Publisher Comments Maj. Roger G. B. Broome, USMCR, died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a well-known naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has turned the research skills... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa by Tim Brady Publisher Comments The true story of how a rusty New Orleans banana boat staffed with a most unlikely and diverse crew was drafted into service in WWII—and heroically succeeded in setting the stage for Patton's epic invasion of North Africa. The largest amphibious... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Napalm: An American Biography by Robert M. Neer Publisher Comments Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo--more than died in... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army by Peter H. Eichstaedt Publisher Comments “Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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