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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Publisher Comments On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning Signed Edition by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments It is often said that war is hell. But for many of the people who experience war first hand--civilians and soldiers alike--it is an emotionally intense and even exhilarating experience. War is an intoxicating and addictive elixir. It gives us purpose... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts Publisher Comments This is the book you've heard about. The book that leaped to the top ranks of the bestseller lists. The book that's got the business world reading, thinking, and quoting. This is the book that reveals the leadership secrets of Attila the Hun-the man who... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi Review There are several translations of this classic, written by exceptional swordsman and Japanese cultural hero Miyamoto Musashi in 1643. Each one has a "flavor", but the overall messages in the text remain timeless. This is required reading for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 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: $8.00 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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Closing with the Enemy: How GIS Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945 (Modern World Studies) by Michael D Doubler Publisher Comments Closing with the Enemy picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the "breakout" in France to the German army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Doubler deals with the deadly business of war-closing with the enemy, fighting and winning... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B Sledge Publisher Comments In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Military History & the Evolution of Western Warfare, Chpts. 4-5, 10-14, & 16-31 by Robert A. Doughty Publisher Comments This highly readable and authoritative history of American military operations examines the campaigns and the changing practices that have helped to define Western warfare. Beginning with Anglo-American skirmishes in the early seventeenth century, the... (read more) List Price $205.25 Your price: $137.00 Used - Hardcover
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Strategy 2ND Edition by B H Liddell Hart Publisher Comments "The most important book by one of the outstanding military authorities of our time." Library Journal This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Search for the Manchurian Candidate : the Cia and Mind Control ((Rev)88 Edition) by John D. Marks Publisher Comments A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity... (read more) Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor Publisher Comments Acclaimed for his vivid re-creations of some of the twentieth century's most significant battles, Antony Beevor is one of the best known and respected military historians writing today. He now offers readers a gripping, street-level portrait of the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA by Evan Thomas Publisher Comments A history of the CIA's origins discusses how the agency was formed to covertly monitor and counter communist activities, sharing behind-the-scenes information about how its agents worked hand-in-hand with the president to orchestrate critical political... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Napoleonic Battles (Duke Press Paperbacks) by Harold Talbo Parker Publisher Comments This narrative account of three Napoleonic battles adheres rather closely to the Aristotelian configuration of evolving tragedy. The historian succeeds in presenting herein events and character not only in historical reality but also in unities employed... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Second World War - With a New Forword (05 Edition) by Michael K. Keegan Publisher Comments John Keeganandrsquo;s landmark military history of World War II Praised as andldquo;the best military historian of our generationandrdquo; by Tom Clancy, John Keegan here reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Counterinsurgency Warfare (Rev 06 Edition) by David Galula Publisher Comments This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era defines the laws of insurgency and outlines the strategy and tactics to combat such threats. Drawn from the observations of a French officer, David... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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When Titans Clashed (95 Edition) by David M. Glantz Publisher Comments By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer and sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Kipling's Army: All the Queen's Men by Byron Farwell Publisher Comments This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Gray Line : American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 (99 Edition) by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments "A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelists eye for detail, Rick... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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