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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien  Publisher Comments One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this...
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges 
Powells.com Staff Pick "War is seductive," Hedges tells readers in this powerful and intelligent book. Throughout our history, it has appealed to the human mind by providing a false sense of purpose and the opportunity to rise above everyday life. Using examples from his...
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford
Powells.com Staff Pick Excruciatingly direct and exceedingly well written, Anthony Swofford's memoir of Marine Corps life during the 1991 Gulf War is one of the most articulate, unflinching portrayals of military service the public has ever seen. "The individual soldier has...
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments Gore Vidal's commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 was deemed not publishable in the United States. His Italian publisher issued this book a few months ago, which became an instant #1 best seller there. German, French, Spanish, Portugese, and...
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Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'brien
Publisher Comments "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." <BR>So wrote the "New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures...
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Dear Mr. President
by Gabe Hudson
Publisher Comments Everybody’s Gulf War Syndrome is a little bit different. Or so believes Larry, who returns home from Desert Storm to find his hair gone and his bones rapidly disintegrating. Then there’s Lance Corporal James Laverne of the US Marines, who...
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Buffalo Soldiers
by Robert O'Connor Publisher Comments Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, Robert O'Connor's viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its...
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This Man's Army
by Andrew Exum Publisher Comments The first combat memoir of the War on Terrorism: the gripping story of a young man's transformation into a twenty-first-century warrior. Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum enrolled...
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But Was It Just?: Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War
by Jean Bethk Elshtain Publisher Comments President George Bush said yes; some bishops said no; even Doonesbury touched on the question. But what does it mean, in any case, to say that a war is just? What are the yardsticks of justice that support President Bush's claim that it was just to...
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The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War with Iraq
by Richard S. Lowry Publisher Comments There is no single source that contains the detailed minute-by-minute description of Operation Desert Storm available in "The Gulf War Chronicles." Richard S. Lowry, an accomplished military historian, went to great lengths to compile the most accurate...
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The Commanders
by Bob Woodward Publisher Comments It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists. "The Commanders," an account of the use of the military in the first Bush...
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford From Powells.com 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...
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
by John F. Crawford
Powells.com 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...
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel C. Fick
Powells.com Staff Pick Possibly unequaled in its detail and candor, One Bullet Away takes readers to the depths of Marine life, in peacetime and in war, all the while avoiding the clichés generally associated with military memoirs. Nathaniel Fick's bracing and...
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