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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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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by George Crile 
Publisher Comments From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary story of the largest and most successful CIA operation in history-the arming of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, pressure mounted for the...
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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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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage)
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Powells.com Staff Pick Not to be lost amid the many books on Iraq, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, gives us a fascinating look at what life inside the Green Zone was like in the first year of post-Saddam Iraq. Here Chandrasekaran’s...
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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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The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice — and indeed, the laws of physics — they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly...
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
by George Crile Publisher Comments A gripping and vibrant book soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and directed by Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson’s War was a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times best seller when it was...
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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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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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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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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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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 Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Publisher Comments National Book Award Finalist A Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic...
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March Up Taking Baghdad With the 1ST Mar
by Bing West Publisher Comments An insider's look at the dramatic sequence of events that unfolded during the 1st Marine Division's 22-day assault from Kuwait to Baghdad, the first book to come directly from the front lines of the war in Iraq....
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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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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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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright Publisher Comments A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on...
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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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Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
by Anthony Arnove Publisher Comments A strong case for the U.S.'s withdrawal from the war in Iraq, written in the spirit of Howard Zinn's Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal, explains that the U.S. presence is a major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people, challenges Bush's...
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