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by George Packer  
Publisher Comments The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war... (read more)  List Price $26.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments The unsung-and revealing-story of the Herculean effort to finish the dismantling that terrorism began Unlike any other reporter, William Langewiesche has had unrestricted access to Ground Zero and the people involved in the cleanup. He has literally... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Der Spiegel Magazine Publisher Comments Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $4.83 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John F. Crawford
Powells.com 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 $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sandra Silberstein Synopsis At first there were no words to describe the horror of September 11, only a national hush that expressed the sudden absence of so many innocent lives. Then the floodgates opened: eyewitness accounts, expert analyses, bitter denunciations, tributes to... (read more) List Price $99.25 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Gertz Synopsis Bestselling author and award-winning investigative reporter Gertz taps his inside sources in the Pentagon and the CIA to track the path of terrorism and terrorists in the United States. Gertz tells who knew what--and how the military and intelligence... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $3.23 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chris Ayres
Powells.com Staff Pick Chris Ayres takes readers on a unique journey through the war in Iraq — as a journalist who's terrified of his own shadow. His description of both the philosophical and the mundane aspects of war are incisive and often surprising, and War... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $5.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Victor Davis Hanson Publisher Comments On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com 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 $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $3.23 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bing West Publisher Comments Here, in this singular book, is the unprecedented frontline look at the struggle in Iraq to replace American soldiers with Iraqis in the face of continued resistance. What unfolds is a vivid portrait from a veteran author who is in the line of fire right... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Max Protetch Publisher Comments "As they watched on television as airliners controlled by terrorists flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the American and international public at large became suddenly aware of the symbolic, political, economic and social importance of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nathaniel Fick
Powells.com Staff Pick Possibly unequaled in its detail and candor, One Bullet Away takes readers to the depths of Marine life, in peacetime and in war, all the while avoiding the clichés generally associated with military memoirs. Nathaniel Fick's bracing and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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