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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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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West
by James Donovan Publisher Comments In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public...
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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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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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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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The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
by Peter Dale Scott Synopsis This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have...
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First in: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
by Gary C. 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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Return to Midway
by Robert D Ballard Publisher Comments It has been called "the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar." On June 4, 1942, near a tiny island 1,500 miles from Hawaii, the course of the Pacific War changed dramatically. Before the battle of Midway the forces of Imperial Japan seemed unstoppable....
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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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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post-Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the...
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Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces
by Linda Robinson Publisher Comments Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S...
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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
by Jack Coughlin Publisher Comments Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps’ top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America’s military muscle to the enemy’s front door. In twenty years of active service, he has accumulated one of the most impressive records in the...
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Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families
by Keith Armstrong
Publisher Comments The bravery displayed by our soldiers at war is commonly recognized. However, often forgotten is the courage required by veterans when they return home and suddenly face reintegration into their families, workplaces, and communities. Authored by three...
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Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
by Eric L Haney Publisher Comments Now the inspiration for the CBS Television drama, "The Unit." Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army's most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal...
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Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team
by Michael Smith Publisher Comments A top-secret U.S. Army Special Operations unit has been running covert missions all over the world, from leading death squads to the hideout of drug baron Pablo Escobar to assassinating key al Qaeda members, including Iraqi leader Abu Musab al-...
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The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
by Brian Holden Reid Publisher Comments The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and a defining moment of the nineteenth century. In this concise and authoritative volume, Brian Holden Reid -- a leading expert on the subject -- reveals how industrialization and emerging methods...
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Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
by David Lipsky
Powells.com Staff Pick "David Lipsky spent four years at West Point with cadets and officers to learn about the teenagers who seek a university education provided by the U.S. Army. But Absolutely American doesn't aim to decide whether America should be engaged in foreign wars...
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
by Ian W. Toll Publisher Comments How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnipotent British Navy. Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing...
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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments Describes the 1805 secret mission, reluctantly sanctioned by Thomas Jefferson and led by William Eaton, to stop the Barbary pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, revealing how a ragtag group of men, aided by a band of European...
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