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Operation Desert Storm: How Two Young Intelligence Analysts and an Infantry Battalion Changed the War in IraqOperation Desert Storm reveals how two 101st Airborne intelligence soldiers averted disaster during the Gulf War."During Desert Storm the Air Force and the Armor forces were the thunder but the 101st was the lightning." General Norman Schwarzkopf, April, 1991. Camp Eagle II, Saudi ArabiaOperation...
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Otherwise, I'm Fine: A MemoirA daughter's story of unresolved grief and a family's hard-won healing When her husband Bill died in 1969, Tina Presnell gathered her three children. "We won't talk about this," she said. "It will be easier that way." Thus began, in the Presnell family, a...
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Outmaneuvered: America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to AfghanistanFrom a celebrated military historian, a "searing...persuasive" (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of why the mighty United States military has repeatedly failed in irregular wars and military campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Since the early 1960s, the United States has fought in four major wars and...
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to IraqStephen Kinzer's Overthrow provides a fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments -- not always to its own benefit "Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but...
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent...
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Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of paper. One of the most extraordinary personal documents to emerge from the war, James J. Fahey's diary presents a vivid picture...
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third ReichDavid Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st...
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third ReichDavid Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st...
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Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American RevolutionFrom one of the South′s foremost historians, this is the dramatic story of the conflict in South Carolina that was one of the most pivotal contributions to the American Revolution. In 1779, Britain strategised a war to finally subdue the rebellious American colonies with...
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Pathfinder and the President: John C. Frémont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for EmancipationTwo towering figures of American history collide in this riveting account of how the struggle between Lincoln and his defiant general John C. Frémont shaped the Civil War and emancipation. "... a masterwork of history. . .Bicknell deftly interweaves Frémont's story with the grander...
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Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War IIFrom Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued...
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Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War IIFrom Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued...
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Patton's War: An American General's Combat Leadership Volume 3: January 1-December 21, 1945 Volume 3The third and final volume of Kevin Hymel's Patton's War trilogy finds Lieutenant General George S. Patton on January 1, 1945, as the master of the battlefield in World War II Europe. Throughout the war, Patton showed the same kind of aggressive leadership and...
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Patton: Genius for War, a"Biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior." --Dallas Morning NewsA comprehensive biography of General George Patton draws on hitherto unavailable letters,...
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Pawns In The GameHere is a true story of international intrigue, romances, corruption, graft, and political assassinations, the like of which has never been written before. It is the story of how different groups or atheistic- materialistic men have played in an international chess tournament to decide...
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Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest DisasterA detailed re-examination of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy that saw the USA enter World War II. In this the first comprehensive treatment of Pearl Harbor since the early 1990s, respected Pacific War naval historian Mark E. Stille traces...
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Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War Us Military Modeled Itself on Private BusinessA pioneering study of the Cold War military-industrial complex shows how defense leaders reorganized the US armed forces in the image of commercial enterprise. The strategic landscape of the Cold War generated political support for a permanent US military force of unprecedented scale. Faced...
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Peril at Every Door: The Civil War in Dickson County, TennesseeThe Civil War in Dickson County was unfortunate and harsh. Times were tough. Food and money became scarce. Families were torn apart, and many neighbors, once close friends, became enemies. The once peaceful area was scavenged by troops of both sides. The previous pro-Confederate...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 1/2: Large Print EditionThis is volume 1 of a 2 volume set. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War,...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 2/2: Large Print EditionBorn in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an...
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