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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 On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold...
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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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Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces
by Linda Robinson Publisher Comments Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S...
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The Operators: Inside the World's Special Forces
by Mike Ryan Publisher Comments Never before have the techniques and operations of special forces around the world been revealed in such fascinating detail. Journalist and soldier Mike Ryan's access to restricted information is at the heart of this extraordinary look into the world of...
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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
by Jack Coughlin Publisher Comments Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps’ top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America’s military muscle to the enemy’s front door. In twenty years of active service, he has accumulated one of the most impressive records in the...
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Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces
by Tom Clancy Publisher Comments They are sent to the world's hot spots-on covert missions fraught with danger. They are called on to perform at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities, primed for combat and surveillance, yet ready to pitch in with disaster relief operations....
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Stalkers and Shooters: A History of Snipers
by Kevin Dockery Publisher Comments Now in paperback From the author of the Navy SEALs Oral History series-an intimate look at the world's most efficient and deadly warriors. Snipers have a rich history. This fascinating book follows their tasks and techniques from the Revolutionary and...
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One Bullet Away (05 Edition)
by Nathaniel C. Fick Publisher Comments If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances...
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Battle Ready
by Tom Clancy and General Tony Zinni and Tony Kolz Publisher Comments The fourth in an extraordinary series of nonfiction books by the number-one bestselling author: a look deep into the art of war — and peace — as seen through the eyes of one of America's outstanding commanders. In his first three Commanders...
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Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team
by Michael Smith Publisher Comments A top-secret U.S. Army Special Operations unit has been running covert missions all over the world, from leading death squads to the hideout of drug baron Pablo Escobar to assassinating key al Qaeda members, including Iraqi leader Abu Musab al-...
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Why Marines Fight
by James Brady Publisher Comments United States Marines, for more than two centuries, have been among the world’s fiercest and most admired of warriors. They have fought from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan and Iraq, in famous battles become bone and sinew of American lore...
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Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan
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...
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Jihad!: The SAS Secret War in Afghanistan
by Tom Carew Synopsis This fast-paced first person narrative is organized into three sections. Part One covers Tom's early life and military service in the SAS. Part Two recounts Operations Fairfax and Felix, the mission to Afghanistan, and Part Three describes Operation...
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Secret Commandos
by John L. Plaster Publisher Comments The leading historian of SOG, the elite commando unit in Vietnam, tells the astonishing story of the SOG warriors who penetrated enemy lines in operations directed at the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The warriors of SOG -- code-named the Studies and Observations...
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The Night Stalkers: Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment
by Michael J Durant Publisher Comments From the authors of the bestselling In the Company of Heroes come the thrilling, never-before-heard stories of the Army's elite aviation unit, the most daring and professional helicopter crews in the world. In his first book, Michael Durant told his...
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Rogue Warrior (Rogue Warrior)
by Richard Marcinko Publisher Comments A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special...
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Elite #013: U.S. Army Rangers and LRRP Units, 1942-87
by Gordon L Rottman Synopsis Ranger - the very word conjures up visions of small, highly trained units executing lightning-fast raids on an unexpecting enemy. It is also synonymous with high esprit de corps and excellence at arms. The US Army Rangers provide units of well...
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In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Military
by Richard Strozzi-heckler Publisher Comments The war in Iraq has heightened interest in the military mindset and raised questions about whether it's possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns. In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this...
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Masters of Chaos
by Linda Robinson Publisher Comments A US News & World Report journalist with unique access tells the gripping, never-before-told, inside story of America's elite troops in action-from the nadir of their reputation after Vietnam to their preeminence today as the frontline against terrorism...
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A Sniper's Journey: The Truth about the Man Behind the Rifle
by Gary D Mitchell Publisher Comments What kind of man can take another's life while looking him-or her-dead in the eyes? And what does repeatedly committing such an act do to that man? In 1968, Gary Mitchell enlisted in the Army and was sent to an infantry unit in Vietnam, where he earned a...
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