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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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Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought
by Michael Stephenson Publisher Comments Michael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, and a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat. Covering everything from what motivated those...
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A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States
by Timothy J. Henderson Publisher Comments The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a...
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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
by Michele Barrett Publisher Comments Unique investigation of the impact of the Great War on the lives of the soldiers who survived. Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is aboutthe countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casualties—...
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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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The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U.S. Marines in World War I
by Dick Camp Publisher Comments “Retreat, hell. We just got here!” So said Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, to a French officer urging retreat from the Germans as they pushed toward Paris during their massive Spring Offensive of 1918...
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
by Hu Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments In May of 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany were marching through France. In the face of this devastating advance, one of World War IIandrsquo;s greatest acts of heroism would be a retreat: the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk. In Dunkirk...
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I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story
by Michael Hastings Publisher Comments At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter -- cell phones, high-speed Internet access...
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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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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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Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
by Ron Powers Publisher Comments As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to...
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The Candy Bombers
by Andrei Cherny Publisher Comments The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. On the sixtieth anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, Andrei Cherny tells a remarkable...
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Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman
by Mary Tillman Publisher Comments On April 22, 2004, Lieutenant David Uthlaut received orders from Khost, Afghanistan, that his platoon was to leave the town of Magarah and "have boots on the ground before dark" in Manah, a small village on the border of Pakistan. It was an order the...
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The Samurai Swordsman: Master of War
by Stephen Turnbull Publisher Comments The word "samurai" evokes intense images of indomitable warriors, expert swordsmen capable of taking on overwhelming odds-and emerging victorious. But this popular image only brushes the surface of the samurai tradition. The Samurai Swordsman: Master of...
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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)
by Michael N. Mcconnell Publisher Comments The end of the Seven Years’ War found Britain’s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans...
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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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The Rescue of the "Gale Runner": Death, Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology)
by Dennis L. Noble Publisher Comments This on-the-spot narrative of the February 1997 loss of three U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the Quillayute River Station during a maritime rescue is both a commemoration and a report of the failure of the Coast Guard's senior leadership to appreciate and...
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Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
by Robert Stradling Publisher Comments Baghdad, Kandahar, Jakarta—not to mention Dresden, Hiroshima, Hanoi: the mass killing of civilians as collateral damage, especially as the result of air bombardment, represents one of the most emotional and ethically urgent issues in the...
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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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