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Surviving the Odds
by Jack Capell  Publisher Comments Surviving the Odds is a compelling first-hand account of the Jack Capell's experiences in WWII as a front line Combat Infantry Rifleman. While a number of veterans have told their stories, this newly published book is unique because it tells one...
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Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at...
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On War (Penguin Classics)
by Carl Von Clausewitz Synopsis Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political thought....
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Forgotten Soldier - New Illustrated Edition (00 Edition)
by Guy Sajer Publisher Comments This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer??'s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine...
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
by Mark Bowden 
Publisher Comments Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how...
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by Stephen Ambrose Publisher Comments As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at...
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Atlas of American Military History
by James C Bradford Publisher Comments From the Battle of Bunker Hill to the Battle of Midway, from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, from George Washington to Douglas MacArthur, The Atlas of American Military History covers the full span of America at war, exploring the personalities, methods...
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Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
by Moazzam Begg Publisher Comments The "shocking firsthand account" (Chicago Sun-Times) of one man's years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name. When Enemy Combatant was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it...
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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 Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
by Edward M. Coffman Publisher Comments In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In...
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The Iraq War: As Witnessed by the Correspondents and Photographers of United Press International
by Martin Walker Publisher Comments A riveting daily accounts of the war from the world's finest journalists....
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic....
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
by Harold G Moore Publisher Comments Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 is We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. In November 1965, some 450 men of...
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For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
by James Yee Publisher Comments In 2001, Captain James "Yusuf" Yee was commissioned as one of the first Muslim chaplains in the United States Army. After the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, he became a frequent government spokesman, helping to educate soldiers about Islam and...
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Duty, Honor, Victory: America's Athletes in World War II
by Gary L Bloomfield Publisher Comments “It’s hard to imagine Derek Jeter or Tiger Woods heading to Iraq to join the U.S. armed forces. But in World War II no American man between the ages of twenty and forty-five was too big to serve—except for the basketball players who...
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Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq
by Bill Katovsky Publisher Comments "The interviews crackle with immediacy." -The New York Times "It is my hope that this outstanding piece of work will reach the widest possible distribution and readership." -Dan Rather, CBS News, on the John Burns interview EMBEDDED is a collection of...
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford Publisher Comments In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. When the U.S...
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Encyclopedia of American Intelligence & Espionage: From the Revolutionary War to the Present
by G J A Otoole Book News Annotation A compendium of espionage events, methods, and people. A valuable reference tool and a fascinating collection of stories. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Mr. Lincoln's general, U.S. Grant :an illustrated autobiography
by Roy Meredith
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Combat Fleets of the World 1976 77
by Jean Labayle Couhat
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