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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: $14.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Dust to Dust: A Memoir by Benjamin Busch Publisher Comments Dust to Dust is an extraordinary memoir about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Benjamin Busch—a decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie Publisher Comments Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 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 $16.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler Publisher Comments They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Publisher Comments The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of War by Sun Tzu and Ralph D. Sawyer Publisher Comments The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao Tse-... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen 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 $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crazy Horse and Custer : the Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (75 Edition) by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel Publisher Comments A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE SLATE.COM THE BOSTON GLOBE THE KANSAS CITY STAR THE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND) THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITORWINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM It was the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag Publisher Comments Two investigative reporters and a researcher tell the epic story of American espionage from the early Cold War Years to the Clinton Administration, showing how the Navy and CIA have used submarines to gather intelligence and launch covert operations... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll Publisher Comments The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam Staff Pick In researching the career of David Halberstam for our Out of the Book project, I came across a description of the author by Doris Kearns Goodwin that gets to the heart of Halberstam's masterful approach: "A gifted storyteller," she called him. "He told... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War by Sebastian Junger Staff Pick When the author of The Perfect Storm writes, "War is insanely exciting," you have to assume he knows what he's talking about. Sure enough, Junger's new book offers a thrilling account of the sustained adrenaline rush that is modern warfare, coupled with... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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D-Day Normandy: Weapons, Uniforms, Military Equipment by Francois Bertin Publisher Comments A complete panorama of the weapons, uniforms and military equipment of all the soldiers that fought at D-Day, both Allied and Axis, illustrated with more than 300 specially commissioned full color photographs. Everything from weapons, helmets, uniforms... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Class of 1846 by John Waugh Publisher Comments No single group of men at West Point--or possibly any academy--has been so indelibly written into history as the class of 1846. The names are legendary: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, George B. McClellan, Ambrose Powell Hill, Darius Nash Couch... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944 - May 7, 1945 by Stephen Ambrose Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day, the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, comes the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lemay : Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay (09 Edition) by Warren Kozak Synopsis Kozak chronicles the life and far-reaching influence of one of the military's greatest and most controversial commanders--General Curtis LeMay. The author weaves an intriguing story of personal conflict, heroism, and self-destruction. b&w photos.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E B Sledge Publisher Comments In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledges acclaimed first... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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