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The League of Wives: The Untold Story...

Heath Hardage Lee

"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story ― a profile...

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Published: Apr 2020

War Dogs: A History of Loyalty and He...

Michael G. Lemish

Now in trade paperback, War Dogs provides an eye-opening look at unsung canine heroes from World War I to the present. Terriers, shepherds, beagles, collies, huskies, and Dobermans are only a few of the breeds that have pulled sleds, ...

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Published: Nov 1999

German Generals Talk

Basil Henry Liddell Hart

The German Generals who survived Hitler's Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and respect. For the first time, answe...

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Published: Sep 1971

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the ...

Wendy Lower

"Compelling . . . Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust." —Washington Post In a surprising account that powerfully revises history, Wendy Lower uncovers the role of German women on the Nazi ...

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Published: Oct 2014

Bravo Two Zero

Andy McNab

Their mission: To take out the scuds. Eight went out. Five came back. Their story had been closed in secrecy. Until now. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Ir...

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Published: Aug 1994

Beyond the Shadow of War

Diane Moody

The long awaited sequel to Diane Moody's bestselling Of Windmills and War.When the war finally ended in May of 1945, Lieutenant Danny McClain made good on his promise to come back for Anya in Holland. He expected her to put up a fight...

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Published: Jan 2016

To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Surv...

Robert J. Mrazek

On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirtyeight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories. Dense clouds obscured the ta...

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Published: Mar 2012

Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to ...

Andrew Nagorski

Hitler's rise to power, as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who watched horrified and up close. Hitlerland offers a gripping narrative full of surprising twists—a...

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Published: Mar 2013

Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Sur...

Tom Nagorski

Ghost Soldiers meets The Perfect Storm in the remarkable true story of the sinking of the S.S. City of Benares In September 1940, ninety lucky English children were placed aboard the S.S. City of Benares by their parents, bound from ...

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Published: Mar 2007

Relentless Strike: The Secret History...

Sean Naylor

The New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2015 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit HistorySince the attacks of September 11, one organization has been at the forefront of America's military response. ...

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Published: Oct 2016

Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroy...

Ryan K. Noppen

At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests. It was these fast light ve...

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Published: Dec 2016

Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Gr...

Patrick K. O'Donnell

"What would you want if you could have any wish?" asked the photojournalist of the haggard, bloodied Marine before him. The Marine gaped at his interviewer. The photographer snapped his picture, which became the iconic Korea...

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Published: Oct 2011

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

New York Times Bestseller"[A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich." — Washington Post  The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler...

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Published: Mar 2018

Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939-45 (1)

Osprey Publishing

This, the first of two volumes on Germany's World War II U-boats, traces their development from the early U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy, the prohibition on Germany having U-boats following the Armistice in 1918 and the subsequent Treat...

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Published: May 2002

World War I: The African Front

Edward Paice

The definitive and dramatic history of World War I's forgotten front.On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat at sea posed by ...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Death of the USS Thresher: The St...

Norman Polmar

A must-read for submarine buffs! On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: ex...

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Published: Oct 2017

A Short History of the Civil War: Ord...

Fletcher Pratt

Best one-volume history brings the events, figures, and battles of monumental conflict vividly to life. Absorbing details of military campaigns, battlefield strategies and personalities revealed in an audacious style that carries read...

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Published: Jul 1997

Operation Garbo: The Personal Story o...

Juan Pujol

Juan Pujol Garcia, better known as Garbo, was perhaps the most influential spy of World War II. By feeding false information to the Germans on the eve of the D-Day landings he ensured their absence in great numbers from Normandy's bea...

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Published: Feb 2012

Battle Story: TET Offensive 1968

Andrew Rawson

The Viet Cong campaign that shook the United StatesBy January 31, 1968, the U.S. had been fighting the Vietnam War for more than 10 years, but the American people never thought they wouldn't win. The Tet Offensive changed all that....

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Published: Jun 2013

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the ...

Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S...

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Published: Jan 2010

The Generals: American Military Comma...

Thomas E. Ricks

An epic history of the decline of American military leadership-from the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks has made a close study of America's military leaders for three decades, and in TheGenerals, he chronicles the wide...

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Published: Oct 2013

Bringing the Thunder: The Missions of...

Gordon Bennett Robertson Jr

By March 1945, when Ben Robertson took to the skies above Japan in his B-29 Superfortress, the end of World War II in the Pacific seemed imminent. But although American forces were closing in on its home islands, Japan refused to surr...

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Published: May 2016

Masters Of Chaos

Linda Robinson

Now in paperback: Linda Robinson's intimate, exclusive-and New York Times best-selling- account of the most secretive and elite soldiers in the U.S. Army today Army Special Forces soldiers have been at the forefront of America's count...

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Published: Sep 2005

Honor and Betrayal: The Untold Story ...

Patrick Robinson

"Written in an even-keeled, reportorial style, the book tells a story…that certainly needs to be told.… Guaranteed to raise eyebrows and spark debate."-BooklistHonor and Betrayal is a no-holds barred, riveting account of t...

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Published: Feb 2015

While Men Slept . . .: . . . His Enem...

Karen Frazier Romero

While Men Slept . . . IS A WAKE-UP CALL TO THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA EXPOSING THE ENEMY WITHIN OUR MIDST . . . THEY HAVE PROMISED TO SILENTLY INFILTRATE OUR COUNTRY USING IMMIGRATION IN ORDER TO MULTIPLY THEIR VOTES, SECURE ALL POLITICA...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Naval War of 1812: A Complete His...

Theodore Roosevelt

Although only 23 years old at the time of publication, Theodore Roosevelt made his mark as a military scholar with this detailed analysis of naval combat between the United States and Great Britain from 1812–15. Engagingly written a...

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Published: Sep 2017

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the ...

Sarah Rose

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untoldhistory of theheroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, cou...

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Published: Mar 2020

Where the Birds Never Sing: The True ...

Jack Sacco

In this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II as seen through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco -- a farm boy from Alabama who w...

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Published: Nov 2004

None Left Behind: The 10th Mountain D...

Charles W. Sasser

A devastating ambush in Iraq, kidnapped soldiers, and the men who wouldn't leave their comrades behindThe 10th Mountain Division is known as the most deployed unit in the U.S. Army. Today, the War on Terror has drawn it to Afghanis...

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Published: Oct 2010

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons,...

Eric Schlosser

A myth-shattering expose of America's nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, ex...

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Published: Aug 2014
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