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The Utility of Force (E-Book) by Rupert Smith Publisher Comments From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century. Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Palm Reader Ebooks - Electronic 
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Always Faithful by William W. Putney Publisher Comments Twenty-three-year-old Bill Putney enlisted in the Marines in 1943 in search of military glory. Instead, Putney, a licensed veterinarian, was relegated to the Dog Corps. Putney became the Commanding Officer of the 3rd War Dog Platoon, and later the chief... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq by Mark Moyar Publisher Comments According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people's hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $28.88 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Roberts Ridge by Malcolm Macpherson Publisher Comments Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the man’s fellow Navy SEALs, and for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Microsoft Reader Ebooks - Electronic
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Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments They came together in the summer of 1942. At its peak, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia to D-Day and on to victory... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $15.09 Microsoft Reader Ebooks - Electronic
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Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon Publisher Comments Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America’s invasion and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Microsoft Reader Ebooks - Electronic
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. Freeman Publisher Comments Now in paperbackthe amazing( James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War. In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.88 Microsoft Reader Ebooks - Electronic
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Lucky Sweetbrier by Tanney Edward Oberg Publisher Comments The night before, a Japanese seaplane under cover of darkness, landed on the other side of the harbor - unnoticed. In the early morning, he took off and dove at a liberty ship, a short distance off Sweetbrier's port bow. The area wasn't even alerted... (read more) List Price $6.00 Your price: $5.33 Drm-Free Pdf - Electronic
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U.S. Army Ranger Handbook by Department of Defense U.S. Publisher Comments This handbook offers the techniques and tactics that make Army Rangers the best soldiers in the world. These highly-trained, easily-deployable, and widely-skilled infantrymen specialize in airborne assault, raids, recovery of personnel and equipment, and... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Operation Thunderhead: The True Story of Vietnam's Final POW Rescue Mission--and the last NAVY Seal by Kevin Dockery Publisher Comments The war was all but over-but there was still one battle the United States had to fight... In the last year of the Vietnam conflict, even as American troops were leaving for home, there were still those fighting for their lives: prisoners of war being... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $24.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Sailors To the End by Gregory A. Freeman Publisher Comments The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire ensued, and McCain barely escaped before a 1,000-pound bomb... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $9.34 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 by David Fairbank White Publisher Comments Between 1939 and 1945, over 36,000 Allied sailors and navy airmen and 36,000 merchant seamen lost their lives in the Atlantic Ocean. They were attempting to deliver the weapons, food, and supplies essential to keeping Britain alive, as well as the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Aeroplanes And Dirigibles Of War by Frederick A. Talbot Publisher Comments The Zeppelin has always aroused the world's attention, although this interest has fluctuated. Regarded at first as a wonderful achievement of genius, afterwards as a freak, then as the ready butt for universal ridicule, and finally with awe, if not with... (read more) Your price: $1.99 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Baptism by Larry Gwin Publisher Comments The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion. A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Ribald Tales & Stories From U.T. by Lock.S Publisher Comments What was it like flying B-52s against the Viet Cong? Ribald Tales & Stories from U.T. is the inside story of a daily war effort from briefing to time off among the Thais. Humor, tragedy, love and sorrow.... (read more) List Price $6.00 Your price: $5.33 Microsoft Reader Ebooks - Electronic
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Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 -- The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War by Bill Sloan Publisher Comments A Band of Brothers for the Pacific, this is the gut-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious -- yet largely forgotten -- battle of World War II. Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The second volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Their "finest hour" refers to Britain that struggled alone to survive overwhelming German advantage; detailed reconstruction of the bombing of London, the Battle of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments This new paperback edition of Stephen E. Ambrose's highly regarded history of the United States Military Academy features the original foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower and a new afterword by former West Point superintendent Andrew J. Goodpaster. There... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $17.28 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Towards The Goal by Mrs. Humphry Ward Publisher Comments How this grey estuary spread before my eyes illustrates and illuminates the figures I have been quoting! I am on the light cruiser of a famous Commodore, and I have just been creeping and climbing through a submarine. The waters round are crowded with... (read more) Your price: $1.99 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories From the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton Publisher Comments From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers. They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on DDay and,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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