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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Publisher Comments On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Samuel B. Griffith Publisher Comments Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History by Wallace Terry Publisher Comments A "New York Times" Notable Book, his classic, powerful book--a nationally bestselling firsthand account of 20 African-American men who served in the Vietnam War--is available once again.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 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: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Staff Pick Enter the secretive world of the most powerful private army on the planet. Here Scahill exposes the disturbing story of Blackwater, a shadowy private company offering specialized military services for hire. A dark study of both the organization and the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Price of Glory : Verdun 1916 (93 Edition) by Alistair Horne Synopsis Verdun was a battle which lasted ten months and in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of 15 miles. This study of the men who fought there shows that Verdun is a key to understanding World War I - a key to the minds of those who waged it, and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 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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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Don Malarkey and Bob Welch Publisher Comments Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 by Stanley Weintraub Publisher Comments Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock—in some cases overseas, elation—was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Greek and Roman Naval Warfare: A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.) by William L Rodgers Synopsis This reissue of a 1937 classic covers ancient naval warfare from the Greco-Persian War to the Campaign of Actium.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America, October 1967 by David Maraniss Publisher Comments Is this man the real reason the Vietnam War was lost? How did he get there, why did he fail, and how did he last so long? Unless and until we understand General William Westmoreland, we will never understand what happened to us in Vietnam, or why. An... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today by Max Boot Publisher Comments Advance Praise for War Made New Max Boot traces the impact of military revolutions on the course of politics and history over the past 500 years. In doing so, he shows that changes in military technology are limited not to warfighting alone, but play a... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments A gripping story of loyalty, love, and treachery, this history of Eddie Chapman--the most successful British double agent in World War II--offers a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, and the thin line between fidelity and betrayal, courage... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Personal Memoirs of U S Grant by Ulysses S Grant Publisher Comments Among the autobiographies of generals and statesmen, the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ranks with the greatest. Mark Twain called it ”the best of any generals since Caesar.” And few historians would disagree. Unquestionably, it is the finest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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