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by Steve Davies Publisher Comments From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics. Red Eagles tells the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Diane Ackerman Powells.com Staff Pick Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Evan Wright Publisher Comments Based on the author's National Magazine Award-winning series in "Rolling Stone," this "New York Times" bestseller is "one of the best books to come out of the Iraq War" ("Financial Times").... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kenneth Sewell Publisher Comments March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish at sea. Who was commanding the rogue Russian sub? What was its target? How did it infiltrate American waters... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $1.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Chris Hedges Powells.com Staff Pick "War is seductive," Hedges tells readers in this powerful and intelligent book. Throughout our history, it has appealed to the human mind by providing a false sense of purpose and the opportunity to rise above everyday life. Using examples from his... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stephen E. 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 $17.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by George Friedman Publisher Comments Dubbed by Barron’s as “The Shadow CIA,” George Friedman’s global intelligence company, Stratfor, has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and even the U.S. government. Now Friedman delivers the geopolitical... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments Ferguson reinterprets the modern era and the central paradox of why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sherry Sontag Publisher Comments Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater lives—not even to their wives and children. They uncovered a wealth of classified... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Armin Howarth Publisher Comments “A book that I absolutely could not put down . . . and one that I will never forget.” —Stephen E. Ambrose “One of the great escape stories of our time.” —Chicago Sun-Times “We Die Alone is a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Michael Herr Publisher Comments "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre." . . . Dispatches puts... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments the New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded poland, stuka bombers devastated warsawand the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alex Kershaw Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling The Bedford Boys the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at the Battle of the Bulge. On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Murphy Publisher Comments The dramatic story of West Point’s class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime They came to West Point in a time of peace, but soon after the start of their senior year, their lives were transformed by September 11. The... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by National Research Co Publisher Comments In each of these areas, there are recommendations on how to immediately apply existing knowledge and technology to make the nation safer and on starting research and development programmes that could produce innovations that will strengthen key systems... (read more) List Price $51.75 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard K Curtis Publisher Comments Second lieutenant Dick Curtis arrived in Italy in May 1944–twenty years old and part of a shipment of P-51 Mustang fighter pilots so desperately needed that they were rushed into combat with less than thirty hours of flight time in their new high... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments In the first volume of him monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in the Second World War, Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson tells the story of the war in North Africa. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frederick Taylor Publisher Comments For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden -- a cultured city famous for its china, chocolate, and fine watches -- was militarily unjustifiable, an act of retribution for Germany's ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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