War in Iraq
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
by Kayla Williams  
Publisher Comments "A woman soldier has to toughen herself up" writes Kayla Williams in this fiercely honest account of what it's like to be part of the female 15% of today's Army. "Not just for the enemy, for battle, for death. I mean to toughen herself to spend months...
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
Publisher Comments The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war...
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War Against Truth (05 Edition)
by Roberts Publisher Comments An acclaimed journalist who has covered the Middle East for decades ? and one of the few to have interviewed Saddam Hussein ? Paul William Roberts knows Iraq better than most. This is his exposé of the politics behind the recent war ? and the brutal...
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Imperial Grunts : American Military on the Ground (05 Edition)
by Robert D. Kaplan Publisher Comments In this landmark book, Robert D. Kaplan, veteran correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and author of Balkan Ghosts, shows how American imperialism and the Global War on Terrorism are implemented on the ground, mission by mission, in the most exotic...
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
by Larry Jay Diamond Publisher Comments America's leading expert on democracy delivers the first insider's account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq — a sobering and critical assessment of America's effort to implant democracy. In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a...
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My Detachment: A Memoir
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com Staff Pick A notable addition to the literature of war, Kidder's aptly named memoir is a candid self-portrait of his coming of age during Vietnam. Looking back on the everyday reality of his year-long command of a small intelligence detachment, Kidder reflects on...
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel 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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The Fall of Baghdad
by Jon Lee Anderson Publisher Comments For every great historical event, there is seemingly always one reporter whose eyewitness accounts are infused with such power and literary impact that they become joined with the subject in our minds. Widely considered the on-the-ground authority by...
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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...
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq
by Colby Buzzell
Publisher Comments A raw, edgy, yet intimate new voice from the front lines in Iraq-the most authentic we have had yet from the war, heralding this generation's Catch-22. Like many of his generation, Colby Buzzell was jumping from one dead-end job to another, a...
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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...
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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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Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington
by George Galloway Publisher Comments A lively, rousing account from the Briton who took DC by storm. "As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the...
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War Reporting for Cowards
by Chris Ayres
Powells.com Staff Pick Chris Ayres takes readers on a unique journey through the war in Iraq — as a journalist who's terrified of his own shadow. His description of both the philosophical and the mundane aspects of war are incisive and often surprising, and War...
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Far Enemy : Why Jihad Went Global (05 Edition)
by Fawaz A. Gerges Publisher Comments 'Analyses the rift in the jihadist movement that led to the events of 9/11.'...
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