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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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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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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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The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf
by Michael Gordon Publisher Comments The chief Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times and a retired three-star Marine Corps general join forces to bring us the definitive history of the Persian Gulf conflict and its aftermath. Based on years of interviews with senior allied...
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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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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E Ricks Publisher Comments The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer...
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From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
by Jay Kopelman Publisher Comments When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.–led attack on the “most dangerous city on Earth,&...
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E Ricks
Powells.com Staff Pick A book so timely, it should be required reading. Hardly a polemic, this detailed and well-researched book succinctly explains how we got into this war and how each touchpoint has been bungled along the way. Recommended by Ted...
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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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Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War
by Dina Rasor Publisher Comments In this shocking exposé, two government fraud experts reveal how private contractors have put countless soldiers in danger while damaging America's strategic interests and image abroad. From the shameful profiteering of well-known...
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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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Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq
by Jonathan Steele Publisher Comments As the dreadful reality of the coalition's defeat in Iraq begins to sink in, one question dominates Washington and London: Why? In this controversial new book, Jonathan Steele provides a stark and arresting answer: Bush and Blair were defeated from the...
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House to House: A Soldier's Memoir
by David Bellavia Publisher Comments Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story. Populated by an indelibly drawn cast of characters, it develops the intensely close relationships that form between...
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Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq
by Tony Lagouranis Publisher Comments Something really bad happened here. So begins Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis's first briefing at Abu Ghraib. While Lagouranis's training stressed the rules of the Geneva Conventions, once in Iraq, he discovered that pushing the legal limits of...
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The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
by Ali A. Allawi Publisher Comments Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and...
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On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story
by Cdr Richard Jadick Publisher Comments At age thirty-eight, Navy Dr. Richard Jadick was too old to be called up to the front lines-but not too old to volunteer. This is the inspiring story of one man's decision to enter into the fray-and a compelling account of courage under fire. Both...
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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
by Patrick K. O'donnell Publisher Comments Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company’s 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city...
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First in: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
by Gary Schroen Publisher Comments While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history. This is the riveting first-person account of the treacherous top-secret mission inside Afghanistan to set...
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The Iraq War: A Military History
by Williamson Murray Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-297) and index....
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