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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by Stephen Ambrose
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As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at... (read more)

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Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at... (read more)

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On War (Penguin Classics)
On War (Penguin Classics)
by Carl Von Clausewitz
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Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political thought.... (read more)

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Atlas of American Military History
Atlas of American Military History
by James C Bradford
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From the Battle of Bunker Hill to the Battle of Midway, from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, from George Washington to Douglas MacArthur, The Atlas of American Military History covers the full span of America at war, exploring the personalities, methods... (read more)

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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford
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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)

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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
by Mark Bowden
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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)

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The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
by Edward M Coffman
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In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In... (read more)

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The Iraq War: As Witnessed by the Correspondents and Photographers of United Press International
The Iraq War: As Witnessed by the Correspondents and Photographers of United Press International
by Martin Walker
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A day-by-day account of Operation Iraqi... (read more)

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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
by Adam Nicolson
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In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic.... (read more)

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For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
by James Yee
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In 2001, Captain James "Yusuf" Yee was commissioned as one of the first Muslim chaplains in the United States Army. After the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, he became a frequent government spokesman, helping to educate soldiers about Islam and... (read more)

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Duty, Honor, Victory: America's Athletes in World War II
Duty, Honor, Victory: America's Athletes in World War II
by Gary L Bloomfield
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“It’s hard to imagine Derek Jeter or Tiger Woods heading to Iraq to join the U.S. armed forces. But in World War II no American man between the ages of twenty and forty-five was too big to serve—except for the basketball players who... (read more)

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Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq
Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq
by Bill Katovsky
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"The interviews crackle with immediacy." -The New York Times "It is my hope that this outstanding piece of work will reach the widest possible distribution and readership." -Dan Rather, CBS News, on the John Burns interview EMBEDDED is a collection of... (read more)

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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford
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When the Marines were sent to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Storm, Anthony Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. This is his scorching memoir of life on and off the battlefield.... (read more)

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Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers
by Stephen E Ambrose
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Leading the way :how Vietnam veterans rebuilt the U.S. military : an oral history
Leading the way :how Vietnam veterans rebuilt the U.S. military : an oral history
by Al Santoli
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Spycatcher :the candid autobiography of a senior intelligence officer
Spycatcher :the candid autobiography of a senior intelligence officer
by Peter Wright
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