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Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
by Don Malarkey and Bob Welch  Publisher Comments Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne...
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Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II
by Brendan I Koerner Publisher Comments Part history, part thriller, Now the Hell Will Start tells the astonishing tale of Herman Perry, the soldier who sparked the greatest manhunt of World War IIand who became that war's unlikeliest folk hero A true story of murder, love, and headhunters...
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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 U.S. Navy SEALs fought to the death against 150 armed Taliban in the Afghan mountains. Now, two years later, the lone SEAL survivor pens this spellbinding, first-hand account, a heartbreaking, yet inspiring story of heroism, courage, and sacrifice...
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Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
by John Mccain Publisher Comments Senator John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy.Both their careers and their courage helped prepare McCain for the biggest challenge of his life when, as a naval aviator, he was...
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The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector
by Aidan Delgado Publisher Comments A young man's transformation from Army Reserve volunteer to Buddhist conscientious objector and critic of the war in Iraq In 2003 Aidan Delgado was deployed to Nasiriyah and Abu Ghraib with the U.S. Army Reserve. When his colleagues learned that he spoke...
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Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story
by William Guarnere Publisher Comments The rousing story of two inseparable friends and World War II soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" is a tribute to the lasting bond forged between comrades in arms--and to all those who fought for freedom....
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Let Me Go
by Helga Schneider 
Publisher Comments Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that wont let you go until youve finished reading the last page (The Washington Post Book World). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneiders mother abandoned her along with her...
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Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman
by Mary Tillman Publisher Comments On April 22, 2004, Lieutenant David Uthlaut received orders from Khost, Afghanistan, that his platoon was to leave the town of Magarah and "have boots on the ground before dark" in Manah, a small village on the border of Pakistan. It was an order the...
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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both...
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The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War (New Narratives in American History)
by William L. Barney Publisher Comments For all the advances of the civil rights movement, and for all the cultural diversity attending economic prosperity, many white southerners have been unable to relinquish the Confederate past and the idea of a heroic, liberty-loving South crushed by...
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American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
by Robert Coram Publisher Comments During the course of his military career, through World War II, Korean, and then Vietnam, Bud Day received every available combat medal, escaped death on no fewer than seven occasions, and spent sixty-seven months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton...
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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...
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
by Tim O'Brien
Powells.com Staff Pick During the Vietnam war, Tim O'Brien spent a year in the U.S. infantry. As a result, he wrote If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home), an account of his experiences there. He doesn't spare us the terrible particulars of this piece of our...
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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
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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Terror of the Autumn Skies: The Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I
by Blaine Pardoe Publisher Comments A biography of the "Arizona Balloon Buster," the first pilot to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. Frank Luke, Jr., was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still "knights of the air," Luke was an ungallant loner, a kid from Arizona...
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Hitler's Commander: Field Marshal Walther Model-Hitler's Favorite General
by Steven H Newton Publisher Comments Field Marshal Walther Model (1891-1945) was an extremely capable and aggressive German commander who rose through the ranks of the Wehrmacht's high command during World War II. His expertise in rebuilding broken fronts earned him the nickname of the...
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Storm of Steel (03 Edition)
by Ernst Junger Publisher Comments A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, "Storm of Steel" illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-...
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
by Charles Henderson Publisher Comments He's silent, invisible. He lies in one position for days, barely twitching a muscle, able to control his heartbeat and breathing. His record has never been matched: 93 confirmed kills. This is the story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, Marine sniper, legend...
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by Dick Winters Publisher Comments Now in paperback! The New York Times bestseller and war memoir from the commander of the legendary Band of Brothers &&now with a new preface from Dick Winters. They were called Easy Companybut their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of...
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Good War : an Oral History of World War II (84 Edition)
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments The first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book with a new Preface by the author. "As in "Hard Times" and "Working", this master interviewer again creates a turbulent epic of human experience by quoting the words of those who lived...
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