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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer Staff Pick Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild knows he was born to write about quirky, iconoclastic characters who travel their own road, ultimately leading to a tragic demise. Where Men Win Glory is every bit as captivating and even more timely than... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.56 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Forever War (Vintage) by Dexter Filkins Synopsis An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs. Through the eyes of Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West Publisher Comments Here, in this singular book, is the unprecedented frontline look at the struggle in Iraq to replace American soldiers with Iraqis in the face of continued resistance. What unfolds is a vivid portrait from a veteran author who is in the line of fire right... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B Oren Publisher Comments Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas E Ricks Publisher Comments Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricksas #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in IraqaThe Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education by Craig M Mullaney Publisher Comments A West Point grad, Rhodes Scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unique education and struggles with the hard lessons that only war can teach. One haunting afternoon on Losano Ridge in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney and his infantry platoon... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended by Jack F Jr Matlock Publisher Comments In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R.,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime by Darrell Griffin Publisher Comments A tribute to the great conversation between a father and his son, an Iraq staff sergeant who died in combat.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments With the eye of a master storyteller, a brilliant military historian puts readers right on the battlefield in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. "In the Company of Soldiers" is a compelling, utterly fresh view of the modern American soldier in action.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd Publisher Comments "A truly exceptional...account of his time in the Balkans and Chechnya....I read [Loyd's] story of war and addiction (to conflict and to heroin) with a sense of gratitude for the honesty and courage on every page." Independent (UK)"... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick Publisher Comments If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen Publisher Comments David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Girls Come Marching Home: The Saga of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq by Kirsten A Holmstedt Synopsis In her award-winning Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq, Kirsten Holmstedt described how female soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are fighting on the front lines in Iraq despite the militarys ban on women in combat. Now Holmstedt tells... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage) by Raji Chandrasekaran Staff Pick Not to be lost amid the many books on Iraq, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, gives us a fascinating look at what life inside the Green Zone was like in the first year of post-Saddam Iraq. Here Chandrasekaranâ€... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq by John R. Crawford Staff Pick John Crawford, like many others, joined the National Guard for college money, not to fight a war. Just short of graduating, he found himself called to active duty to serve in Baghdad during the Iraq invasion. A view of the war not portrayed on national... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran Publisher Comments An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our Time by Peter S Temes Publisher Comments A critical history of Just War thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Mr. Temes's book proposes a radically new vision, one that respects the received tradition but takes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M Hersh Publisher Comments Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his explosive stories in The New Yorker, including his headline-making pieces on the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, Hersh brings... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict Publisher Comments More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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