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One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 by Life Magazine Staff Publisher Comments During our nation's most trying times, it has been LIFE that has provided the images that help us understand, remember, and in the process, renew. Now the editors of LIFE have assembled a moving, brilliantly illustrated account of tragedy and triumph... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $9.48 Used - Hardcover 
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The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption by John Perkins Publisher Comments In this riveting memoir, bestselling author Perkins details his former role as an economic hit man. This stunning, behind-the-scenes expos reveals a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe.... (read more) Your price: $25.95 Used - Hardcover 
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick A notable addition to the literature of war, Kidder's aptly named memoir is a candid self-portrait of his coming of age during Vietnam. Looking back on the everyday reality of his year-long command of a small intelligence detachment, Kidder reflects on... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Why Terrorism Works Understanding The by Alan M Dershowitz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams Publisher Comments "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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Longitudes and Attitudes: America in the Age of Terrorism by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Covering Catastrophe by Allison Gilbert Synopsis 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.60 Used - Hardcover
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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 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... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Milosevic: The People's Tyrant by Vidosav Stevanovic Publisher Comments This book is a fascinating and revealing biography of Slobodan Milosevic. It is an up to date account of his life, career and downfall. It sheds much-needed new light on the man that is known as "Belgrade's tyrant" and the successor to Tito, who was... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $5.75 Used - Hardcover
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War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres Publisher Comments 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) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror by Dina Temple Raston Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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War Against the Terror Masters by Michael A Ledeen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington by George Galloway Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of the Blue by Richard B Bernstein Publisher Comments A gripping and authoritative account of the September 11th attack, its historical roots, and its aftermathFew news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but no news... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Hardcover
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The September 11 Syndrome: Seven Steps to Getting a Grip in Uncertain Times by Harriet B Braiker Publisher Comments **A portion of the profits from this book are being donated to 9-11 related charities Proven methods for how to live fully and panic-free in the face of anxiety and stress More than just the World Trade Centers were destroyed on September 11. Also lost... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $1.25 Used - Trade Paper
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The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global by Fawaz A Gerges Publisher Comments 'Analyses the rift in the jihadist movement that led to the events of 9/11.'... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001, in Words, Pictures, and Video with DVD by CBS News Publisher Comments September 11, 2001, will be eternally frozen in our memories. Where we were; what we thought; what we felt; what we heard; and especially what we saw will stay with us forever. It was a day -- defined for each of us in an instant -- that we will share... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcvr W/Comp Media
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Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It by Mike Hoyt Publisher Comments “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) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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