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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: $6.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Mitchell Fink Publisher Comments On the morning of September 11, 2001, shock waves rippled through the country as the United States came under terrorist attack. In New York, Washington, D.C., and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, four planes piloted by members of the Al Qaeda terrorist... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 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: $1.95 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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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: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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September 11: A Testimony by Reuters News Service Synopsis 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) List Price $29.00 Your price: $3.50 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: $1.50 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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center by Dennis Smith Review "The first-person narratives in this account of the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center constitute a tremendously powerful chronicle of September 11th. The language of the firefighters and police officers is blunt and vivid, the details are sharply... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin Publisher Comments In the fall of 2009, with the publication of her #1 national bestselling memoir, Sarah Palin had the privilege of meeting thousands of everyday Americans on her extraordinary 35-city book tour. Inspired by these encounters, her new book, America By... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq by Larry Jay Diamond Publisher Comments "Chilling--and often scathing--detail . . . Should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States' quick military victory has given way to an increasingly virulent insurgency."--The New York Times In the fall of 2003, Stanford... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.50 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: $3.50 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: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism by Victor Davis Hanson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of September 11, 2001 by Photographers of the New York City Police Department by Christopher Sweet Publisher Comments On the morning of September 11th, a new kind of horror shook the world. Terrorists crashed two passenger airliners into the World Trade Center in the worst attack on U.S. soil in the nation's history. But at the same time a new generation of heroes rose... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.00 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 $13.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of the Blue by Richard Bernstein Publisher Comments Following the lives of heroes, victims, and terrorists of September 11, 2001, Richard Bernstein, one of The New York Times's most skillful journalists, weaves the complex tale of a multitude of lives colliding in conflagration on that fateful morning... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 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: $0.50 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 $32.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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