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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel Fick
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Possibly unequaled in its detail and candor, One Bullet Away takes readers to the depths of Marine life, in peacetime and in war, all the while avoiding the clichés generally associated with military memoirs. Nathaniel Fick's bracing and... ( read more)
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
by John F. Crawford
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John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in fall 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married — in fact, on... ( read more)
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim Defede
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Jim DeFede has been an award-winning journalist for sixteen years, first with the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, and then with the Miami New Times. His work has appeared in Talk, The New Republic, and Newsday. He is currently ametro columnist... ( read more)
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Why Terrorism Works Understanding The
by Alan M Dershowitz
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The greatest danger facing the world today, says Alan M. Dershowitz, comes from religiously inspired, state sponsored terrorist groups that seek to develop weapons of mass destruction for use against civilian targets. In his newest book, Dershowitz... ( read more)
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq
by Colby Buzzell
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A raw, edgy, yet intimate new voice from the front lines in Iraq-the most authentic we have had yet from the war, heralding this generation's Catch-22.
Like many of his generation, Colby Buzzell was jumping from one dead-end job to another, a... ( read more)
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
by Kayla Williams
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"A woman soldier has to toughen herself up" writes Kayla Williams in this fiercely honest account of what it's like to be part of the female 15% of today's Army. "Not just for the enemy, for battle, for death. I mean to toughen herself to spend months... ( read more)
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September 11: A Testimony
by Reuters News Service
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Gathers some of the most dramatic and memorable images of the events of September 11, 2001, and the days following, including rescue efforts and reactions around the world.... ( read more)
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Longitudes and Attitudes: America in the Age of Terrorism
by Thomas L. Friedman
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America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th--before, during and after As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the... ( read more)
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Covering Catastrophe
by Allison Gilbert
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Covering Catastrophe tells what it was like for TV and radio journalists to report the most terrifying story of their lives-and our time.... ( read more)
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Milosevic: The People's Tyrant
by Vidosav Stevanovic
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A revealing biography of Slobodan Milosevic which gives an appalling picture of the Balkans that he created, and the horror that he instilled in the region This book is a fascinating and revealing biography of Slobodan Milosevic. It is an up to date... ( read more)
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War Reporting for Cowards
by Chris Ayres
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With the gonzo style of Hunter S. Thompson and the biting wit of P. J. O'Rourke, an unlikely reporter recounts how he got the opportunity of a lifetime — and ends up between Iraq and a hard place.
Chris Ayres is a small-town boy, a hypochondriac,... ( read more)
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror
by Dina Temple Raston
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They called themselves the Arabian Knights. They were six Yemeni-American friends, a gang of high-school soccer stars, a band of brothers on the grim side streets of Lackawanna's First Ward, just a stone's throw from Buffalo. Later, people would argue... ( read more)
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An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism
by Victor Davis Hanson
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Inviting readers across the spectrum to think about September 11 and its aftermath in new and more complicated ways, this volume is a collection of online essays posted by one of the best-known historians in America.... ( read more)
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War Against the Terror Masters
by Michael A Ledeen
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The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11th catastrophe; the nature of the terror network we are... ( read more)
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The Fall of Baghdad
by Jon Lee Anderson
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For every great historical event, there is seemingly always one reporter whose eyewitness accounts are infused with such power and literary impact that they become joined with the subject in our minds. Widely considered the on-the-ground authority by... ( read more)
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Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington
by George Galloway
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A lively, rousing account from the Briton who took DC by storm.
"As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the... ( read more)
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The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global
by Fawaz A Gerges
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'Analyses the rift in the jihadist movement that led to the events of 9/11.'... ( read more)
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Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
by Mike Hoyt
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“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 they’re proud of... ( read more)
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Among the Heroes: The Story of United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back
by Jere Longman
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On the evening of September 14, as the sun set over the flag-draped county courthouse in Somerset, Pennsylvania, fifteen hundred mourners gathered together as Governor Tom Ridge presided over a memorial to the passengers and crew of United Flight 93. In... ( read more)
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New York September 11
by Magnum
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Astounding images that reveal how one day has changed New York forever. By turns haunting, beautiful, surreal and shocking, this first collection of photographs to document the incomprehensible events of September 11th brings together the finest... ( read more)
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