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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle Publisher Comments He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer Publisher Comments For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh Publisher Comments Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos Publisher Comments An inspiring walk through World War II history from the national bestselling author of Biggest Brother. On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments "This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." — Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter Publisher Comments The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan. For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.95 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Boy's Crusade : American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (03 Edition) by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments The Boys Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussells unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantrymans experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the authors own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War by Frederick Downs Publisher Comments Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell Publisher Comments It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendary public service career of the four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. At its heart are Powell's "Thirteen Rules" — notes he... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan by Mitch Weiss Publisher Comments It seemed like an impossible mission right from the start. A Special Forces team planned to land in an enemy-held valley, scale a steep mountain in Afghanistan to surprise and capture a terrorist leader. But before they found the target, the target... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy #3) by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II. It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman Publisher Comments When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.led attack on the most dangerous city on Earth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and Bin Laden's Final Plot Against America by Matt Apuzzo Publisher Comments How safe are we? What do we sacrifice to feel safe? And who pays the ultimate price? Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists examine one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations--a breathtaking race to prevent an al-Qaeda bomber... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings Publisher Comments From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton Publisher Comments From bestselling author Doug Stanton, a harrowing, true-life tale of a band of American soldiers and their struggles and triumphs in... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E B Sledge Publisher Comments “Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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