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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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Zookeeper's Wife: a War Story (08 Edition) 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front (American Childhoods) by James Marten Publisher Comments How children living in the North experienced the Civil War, considered in the larger contexts of economic, political, and cultural developments during the nineteenth century. Mr. Marten opens a new window on the impact of the war and shows that the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.88 Used - Hardcover
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Civil War a Narrative Fredericksbur Volume 2 by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments This, then, is narrative history--a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time. --The Washington Post Book World Gettysburg...is described with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forever War (Vintage) by Dexter Filkins Synopsis An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs. Through the eyes of Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Face of Battle by John Keegan Publisher Comments Keegan, a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, speculates as to what soldiers present at such historic military engagements as Agincourt and Waterloo may have experienced.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Company of Soldiers : a Chronicle of Combat (05 Edition) by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments With the eye of a master storyteller, a brilliant military historian puts readers right on the battlefield in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. "In the Company of Soldiers" is a compelling, utterly fresh view of the modern American soldier in action.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization by James Bamford Publisher Comments The book the NSA tried to suppress. In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Decision at Strasbourg: Ike's Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at the Rhine in 1944 (Ausa) by David Colley Book News Annotation Just a day before it was to cross the Rhine into Germany, the Sixth Army Group, led by General Jacob Devers, was halted in its tracks by General Dwight Eisenhower. Standing with General George Patton were many who believed General Eisenhower's... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $22.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James Hornfischer Publisher Comments “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Navy Seals: The Complete History by Kevin Dockery Publisher Comments In Navy SEALs: The Complete History, author Kevin Dockery has combined his three critically acclaimed volumes-Navy SEALs: A History of the Early Years; Navy SEALs: The Vietnam Years; and Navy SEALs: Post-Vietnam to the Present-into one, comprehensive... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd Publisher Comments "A truly exceptional...account of his time in the Balkans and Chechnya....I read [Loyd's] story of war and addiction (to conflict and to heroin) with a sense of gratitude for the honesty and courage on every page." Independent (UK)"... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments 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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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist. --Walker Percy I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Civil War a Narrative Fort Sumter Volume 1 by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters.--Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News A stunning book full of color, life... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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