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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
by Joseph E Stiglitz  Publisher Comments The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel...
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Dave Grossman Synopsis The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant...
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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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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Publisher Comments Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready...
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
by Max Hastings Publisher Comments Hailed in Britain as “Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful” (Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the...
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Carbine & Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
by W S Nye Publisher Comments Fort Sill is in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma. Founded in 1869, the army post is today the United States Army Field Artillery Center. Thousands of men trained there during two world wars and many more have...
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The Illustrated Book of Five Rings
by Miyamoto Musashi Publisher Comments A classic on martial arts strategy and confrontation originally written in 1643 is enhanced by fifty-four full-color illustrations from Japanese sources, including battle scenes, reproductions of fine samurai swords and armor, and art from the Zen...
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Mutiny: The True Events That Inspired the Hunt for Red October
by David Hagberg Publisher Comments In 1984, Tom Clancy released his blockbuster novel, The Hunt for Red October, an edge-of-your seat thriller that skyrocketed him into international notoriety. The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a...
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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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Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers
by Lynn Compton Publisher Comments FOREWARD BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: aThe aBand of Brothersa story rightly took America by storm. In telling of that remarkable generation of men who risked everything a everything a to defeat the evils of fascism, the tale of Easy Companyas bravery and...
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Warrior 62: Prussian Regular Infantryman 1808-1815 (Warrior)
by Oliver Schmidt Synopsis Following the disastrous defeats at Jena and Auerstadt by Napoleon in 1806, the Prussian armed forces were forced to regroup, and radical changes were instigated in all areas. The fighting spirit and ability of the infantry remained consistently high...
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Moment of Truth in Iraq
by Michael Yon Publisher Comments Internationally acclaimed for his "vivid" "shocking" and "intimate" coverage, no reporter knows the battle zones of Iraq better than former Green Beret Michael Yon. No one has better access, deeper sources, or greater credibility. Yon has never been...
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Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace
by Mark Perry Publisher Comments The depth and significance of the relationship between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower has eluded historians for years. In Partners in Command, acclaimed historian and journalist Mark Perry gets to the heart of arguably the most fateful partnership...
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Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
by Mike (edt) Hoyt Publisher Comments andldquo;A searing document, one of the most revealing chronicles of the war yet published. It is as though correspondents are talking late into the night, trying to explain what it was like, what sights and smells haunt them, what theyandrsquo;re proud...
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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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Clausewitz's on War: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
by Hew Strachan Publisher Comments Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz’s On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is...
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Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
by Jurgen Brauer Publisher Comments From the walls of Troy to the sands of Iraq, humans have devoted staggering resources to the art and science of war. Yet while military history has long studied the economics of conflict, until now there have been few attempts to apply the principles of...
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Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes
by Bryan Perret0 Publisher Comments Some of the most unlikely, unexpected, improbable, and even impossible military successes of the past 200 years, covered in a "top ten" list! With accurate detail and adventurous drama, these accounts highlight the Albuera counterattack in the 1811...
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Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
by Alex Kershaw Publisher Comments By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy...
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Washington's War: The American War of Independence to the Iraqi Insurgency
by Michael Rose Publisher Comments Michael Rose exposes a grim reality: Iraqi insurgents have adopted the same guerrilla warfare tactics used during the American Revolution. In June 1775, George Washington commanded a band of rebels who were, in the eyes of the British, nothing more than...
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