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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer Staff Pick Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild knows he was born to write about quirky, iconoclastic characters who travel their own road, ultimately leading to a tragic demise. Where Men Win Glory is every bit as captivating and even more timely than... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Civil War a Narrative Fredericksbur Volume 2 by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments 'When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw'"and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis'... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Civil War a Narrative Fort Sumter Volume 1 by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments FORT SUMTER TO PERRYVILLE "Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.... Years from now, Foote's monumental narrative most likely will continue to be read and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Armageddon (05 Edition) by Max Hastings Staff Pick A meticulous, unprecedented account of the final year of WWII. History buffs beware: your time is not your own once Armageddon is in your hands.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West Publisher Comments Here, in this singular book, is the unprecedented frontline look at the struggle in Iraq to replace American soldiers with Iraqis in the face of continued resistance. What unfolds is a vivid portrait from a veteran author who is in the line of fire right... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments “A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”The New York Times In An Army at Dawnwinner of the Pulitzer PrizeRick Atkinson provided a dramatic and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shantung Compound by Langdon Gilkey Publisher Comments Into the Unknown The letter arrived in late February, 1943, at the door of the house I shared with five bachelor teachers in Peking. Rumors had been going around for weeks that the Americans and the British who were then in Peking would be sent... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel Publisher Comments At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C Fick Staff Pick 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. In An Army at Dawn — winner of the Pulitzer Prize —... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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1776 by David Mccullough Publisher Comments In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat by Robert Drury Publisher Comments November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery by William Gurstelle Publisher Comments Whether playing at defending their own castle or simply chucking pumpkins over a fence, wannabe marauders and tinkerers will become fast acquainted with Ludgar, the War Wolf, Ill Neighbor, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey--ancient artillery devices known... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments Stephen Ambrose is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments In the first volume of him monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in the Second World War, Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson tells the story of the war in North Africa. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States by Cormac Obrien Synopsis The author of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents (100,000 in print) and Secret Lives of the First Ladies (30,000 in print) is back with another bizarre look at history's most celebrated personalities. With Secret Lives of the Civil War, Cormac O'Brien... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographies and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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