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Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II
by Brendan I. Koerner  Publisher Comments Part history, part thriller, Now the Hell Will Start tells the astonishing tale of Herman Perry, the soldier who sparked the greatest manhunt of World War IIand who became that war's unlikeliest folk hero A true story of murder, love, and headhunters...
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Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
by John Mccain Publisher Comments Senator John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy.Both their careers and their courage helped prepare McCain for the biggest challenge of his life when, as a naval aviator, he was...
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The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures
by Captain William R. Anderson Publisher Comments Now, for the first time, the captain of the submarine USS Nautilus tells the newly declassified story of his ship's desperate Cold War race beneath the polar ice pack. The Cold War was in full swing. The Soviet Union had just successfully launched...
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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...
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
by Marcus Luttrell Publisher Comments Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small...
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Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story
by William Guarnere Publisher Comments The rousing story of two inseparable friends and World War II soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" is a tribute to the lasting bond forged between comrades in arms--and to all those who fought for freedom....
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Terror of the Autumn Skies: The Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I
by Blaine Pardoe Publisher Comments A biography of the "Arizona Balloon Buster," the first pilot to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. Frank Luke, Jr., was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still "knights of the air," Luke was an ungallant loner, a kid from Arizona...
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Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq
by John Geddes Publisher Comments “They come from across the globe: former special forces soldiers from Britain, the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and every country on the European mainland. There are Gurkhas from the Himalayan foothills and Fijians from the South Sea...
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10
by Marcus Luttrell Publisher Comments Four U.S. Navy SEALs fought to the death against 150 armed Taliban in the Afghan mountains. Now, two years later, the lone SEAL survivor pens this spellbinding, first-hand account, a heartbreaking, yet inspiring story of heroism, courage, and sacrifice...
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
by Tim O'Brien 
Powells.com Staff Pick During the Vietnam war, Tim O'Brien spent a year in the U.S. infantry. As a result, he wrote If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home), an account of his experiences there. He doesn't spare us the terrible particulars of this piece of our...
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Fate Is the Hunter
by Ernest K. Gann Publisher Comments "This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of (the author's) nearly 10,000 hours aloft in peace and in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck-- that the pattern of anyone's fate is only...
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Patton: Genius for War, a
by Carlo Deste Publisher Comments Based on exclusive access to his personal and public papers, and with the full cooperation of his family, Patton is an intimate look at the colorful, charismatic, and sometimes controversial man who became the one general the Germans respected and feared...
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by Dick Winters Publisher Comments Now in paperback! The New York Times bestseller and war memoir from the commander of the legendary Band of Brothers &&now with a new preface from Dick Winters. They were called Easy Companybut their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of...
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Pershing (Great Generals)
by Jim Lacey Publisher Comments In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing's legacy as the nation's first modern combat commander, setting the standard for today's four-star officers. When the U.S. entered into WWI in 1917, they did so with...
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Cushing : Civil War Seal (03 Edition)
by Robert J. Schneller Publisher Comments Dismissed from the U. S. Naval Academy in early 1861, William Barker Cushing nonetheless emerged from the Civil War as one of the Navy's greatest heroes. Cushing transformed his reputation from a rabblerouser into a living legend because he embodied the...
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Forgotten Soldier - New Illustrated Edition (00 Edition)
by Guy Sajer Publisher Comments This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer's war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a...
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U-Boat Ace: The Story of Wolfgang Luth (Bluejacket Books)
by Jordan Vause Publisher Comments An exceptional figure in the history of the German Navy, Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men in the Wehrmacht to win Germany's highest combat decoration, the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. At one time or another he operated in...
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Hitler's Commander: Field Marshal Walther Model-Hitler's Favorite General
by Steven H Newton Publisher Comments Field Marshal Walther Model (1891-1945) was an extremely capable and aggressive German commander who rose through the ranks of the Wehrmacht's high command during World War II. His expertise in rebuilding broken fronts earned him the nickname of the...
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Grove Great Lives)
by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff...
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Storm of Steel (03 Edition)
by Ernst Junger Publisher Comments A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, "Storm of Steel" illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-...
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