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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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Generation Kill
by Evan Wright
Publisher Comments A powerhouse work of nonfiction, Generation Kill expands on Evan Wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in Rolling Stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of First Recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg...
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Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons
by Al Ventner Publisher Comments It is called the "Club of Nine," the exclusive group of nations that have detonated nuclear weapons. Apart from the major powers, its membership also includes, India, Pakistan, and Israel. More recently, its membership was blighted by North Korea. Based...
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In the Company of Heroes
by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov Publisher Comments Durant's experience is one of the most harrowing in the history of the American military, and one of the most compelling ever told. -from the introduction by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over...
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu and Samuel B. Griffith Publisher Comments Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding...
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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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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
by Jack Coughlin Publisher Comments Marine Sniper Sgt. Jack Coughlin carried his specially designed bolt action rifle--and its nearly magical scope--into a landscape of sandstorms, firefights, and chaos during Operation Iraqi Freedom. As marines charged through the desert and leapfrogged...
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D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the...
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The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family
by Martha Raddatz Publisher Comments From ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, the story of a brutal forty-eight-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war not just on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back at home. In April 2004, soldiers...
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Dispatches
by Michael Herr
Publisher Comments "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre...
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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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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
by James Bradley Publisher Comments James Bradley's #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers made real the humanity and legacy of war as few books had before. Now, in Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary — and totally unknown — true story of courage. Over...
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
by Stephen Ambrose Publisher Comments On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever...
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Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
by Laura Palmer Publisher Comments For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war....
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945
by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing...
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Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective
by Paul Rieckhoff Publisher Comments The riveting, action-packed true story of the first soldier to challenge the war in Iraq. As a 1st Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon Leader for the U.S. Army, charged with leading 38 young men in Iraq, Paul Rieckhoff was proud to follow in the footsteps of...
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich (Dell War Series)
by David Kenyon Webster Publisher Comments David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of...
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Art of War
by Sun Tzu/sawyer Publisher Comments An illuminating new look at the classic primer on warfare. Distinguishing itself from many previous versions, this contemporary translation of Sun-Tzu's landmark text acknowledges the work first and foremost as a masterpiece of military strategy...
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey Publisher Comments On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and...
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
by Jay Winik Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling chronicle of the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. It was a month that could have unravelled the American nation. Instead, it saved it. In April...
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