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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's classic The Great War and Modern Memory remains one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Staff Pick "The title might give the impression that this book would be at home on Patton's shelf, but a glance at the chapter headings shows the book's true heart and mind: 'The Myth of War,' 'The Plague of Nationalism,' 'The Highjacking and Recovery of Memory... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of War (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Sun Tzu Publisher Comments Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Battle of Wits : the Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (00 Edition) by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Thomas Cleary Publisher Comments Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pacific War by John Costello Publisher Comments John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D.1700 by Erik Hildinger Publisher Comments The nomadic peoples of central Asia—Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Mongols—are still known to us for their legendary fighters Attila, Genghis Khan, and Timur Lenk (Tamerlane), as well as for their feats of calculated brutality. (Timur Lenk would leave... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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33 Strategies of War (06 Edition) by Robert Greene Publisher Comments The eagerly anticipated new book from the author of the bestselling The 48 Laws of Power What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Spanish War : an American Epic,1898 (84 Edition) by George J. A. O'toole Publisher Comments On the night of February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine was ripped in half by an explosion in Havana harbor with the loss of 266 American lives. War with Spain followed nine weeks later. After a three-month fight on two fronts half a world apart... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy Publisher Comments About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fateful Choices (07 Edition) by Ian Kershaw Publisher Comments The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw?s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments Stephen Ambrose is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Yankee Doodle Boy : a Young Soldier's Adventures in the American Revolution Told By Himself (95 Edition) by Joseph Plumb Martin Publisher Comments This story by Joseph Plumb Martin has a 'you were there' quality to it which gives a direct and immediate understanding of what life in the Continental army was like. It is extremely readable.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States by Timothy J Henderson Publisher Comments The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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World War II : New History (09 Edition) by Evan Mawdsley Publisher Comments This is a magisterial new global history of World War II. Beginning in 1937 with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Evan Mawdsley shows how the origins of World War II lay in a conflict between the old international order and the new and then traces... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Utmost Savagery: Three Days of Tarawa (08 Edition) by Joseph H. Alexander Book News Annotation In this paperback edition of the 1995 award-winning military history, Col. Alexander, US Marine Corp. (retired) reexamines this seminal World War II battle in the central Pacific. Although the colonel did not fight in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mask of Command by John Keegan Publisher Comments John Keegan asks us to consider questions that are seldom asked: What makes a great military leader? Why is it that men, indeed sometimes entire nations, follow a single leader, often to victory, but with equal dedication also to defeat? Dozens of names... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose Publisher Comments In this companion to the HBO miniseries — executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman — Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. Between... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Art of War: Denma Translation (2ND 09 Edition) by Tzu Publisher Comments Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to respond to conflict wisely, thoroughly, and victoriously is right before us at all times. The key to skillful action in any... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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