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For Love of Country: What Our Veteran...

Howard Schultz

A celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front.  Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and National B...

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Published: Oct 2015

In the Jungle... Camping with the Ene...

W. James Seymour

During the Vietnam War, when conventional warfare tactics weren't proving enough to eliminate Communist insurgency, the U.S. Army implemented small unit operations to take a new kind of fight to the enemy. Five to six man Long Range P...

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Published: Mar 2014

On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story o...

Hampton Sides

"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceeding...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon ...

Bill Sloan

The Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, it focuses on the fateful days when the Korean War's most de...

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Published: Nov 2010

Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes i...

Larry Smith

This first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor. This New York Times best-selling account of battlefield courage celebrates the larger-than-life sacrifice...

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Published: May 2004

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story o...

Sherry Sontag

Originally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Blind Man's Bulffis a dramatic, and riveting history. Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew inte...

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Published: Apr 2016

Step Forward the Hero: The Story of M...

Donald Spivey

The biography of Milton L. Olive, III, the first African American awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War. We learn not just about Milton Olive the individual, but about the special challenges of an African American coming of a...

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Published: May 2014

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S...

Doug Stanton

Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the bestselling account of America's worst naval disaster—and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survivedOn July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the ...

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Published: May 2003

God's Battalions: The Case for the Cr...

Rodney Stark

The truth about the Christian Crusades and Muslim Jihad.

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Published: Nov 2010

Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam...

Alvin Townley

"Defiant is Unbroken meets Band of Brothers—and then some." —Congressman Pete SessionsDuring the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of No...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: T...

John Dermot Turing

'Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.'- Michael Smith, bestselling author ofStation X. At Bletchley Park, some of Britain's most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals we...

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Published: Jul 2020

Eternally at War

Jeanette Vaughan

Vietnam. A USMC A-4 Skyhawk pilot. PTSD. He survived Vietnam, but would he survive its aftermath? The experiences of combat produce different memories by those whom have served. Some return as warriors, seemingly unscathed. With other...

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Published: Sep 2016

Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Na...

Howard E. Wasdin

A New York Times Best seller!\n\n\n\nWhen the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six.\n\nIn this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard E. Wasdin takes readers deep...

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Published: Apr 2012

Silent Night: The Story of the World ...

Stanley Weintraub

In the early months of World War I, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides of the trenches laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. Despite orders to continue shooting, the unofficial truce spread across the front li...

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Published: Oct 2002

Resolve: From the Jungles of WW II Ba...

Bob Welch

On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles. One of them was twenty-thr...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's Wa...

Andrew Wiest

When the 160 men of Charlie Company (4th Battalion/47th Infantry/9th ID) were drafted by the US Army in May 1966, they were part of the wave of conscription that would swell the American military to 80,000 combat troops in theater by ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Panzer 38(t)

Steven Zaloga

Panzer 38(t) provides an in-depth look at one of most little known yet advanced tanks of its day, a Czech vehicle that would become one of Germany's armored workhorses during the early campaigns of World War II.The Munich Agreement in...

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Published: Oct 2014

Railway Guns of World War II

Steven J. Zaloga

World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns initially deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development program saw the introduction of ...

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Published: Feb 2016

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Surv...

Mitchell Zuckoff

Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.On November 5, 1942, a US ca...

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Published: Apr 2014

The VICTORS : Eisenhower and His Boys...

Stephen E. Ambrose

A TRUE CELEBRATION OF HEROISM AND BRAVERYFrom America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of World War II in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945....

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Published: Oct 1999

Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and ...

Andrew Nagorski

The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on...

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Published: Nov 2008

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS,...

Ben Macintyre

The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristoc...

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Published: Aug 2017

With Our Backs to Berlin

Tony Le Tissier

Even in retreat, the Nazi Army was still a force to be reckoned with. Tony Le Tissier has interviewed a wide range of former German Army and SS soldiers to provide ten first-hand accounts of the fighting retreat that, for one soldier,...

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Published: Oct 2005

The Illustrated Art of War (Dover Mil...

Sun Tzu

Graced with 24 color illustrations of Asian art treasures, this gift edition of the world's earliest and most prestigious military treatise covers principles of strategy, tactics, maneuvers, and other topics still relevant today. I...

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Published: Mar 2012

A Code To Keep: The True Story of Ame...

Ernest C. Brace

Ernest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured and spent the next two years in a bamboo cage with his legs in stocks. His bravery did ...

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Published: Mar 2017

Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colo...

Hans Von Luck

A stunning look at World War II from the other side...From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel's 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the di...

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Published: Jan 1991
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