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Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II's Most Daring HeistFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, "a page-turning thriller" (James M. Scott) about one of the greatest heists in history: the U.S. Navy's clandestine capture of a Nazi U-boat at the climax of World War II. Shortly before noon on...
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and PsychokinesisThe definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For...
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Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire Volume 8Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both...
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and ReturningOne of NPR's Best Books of 2019 "Lyrical . . . A thoughtful perspective on America's role overseas." --Washington Post From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of...
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Powder Plant: Farmland to National DefenseFor thirty years, Carolyn Dallmann held down various positions at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, in Sauk County, Wisconsin. A major manufacturer of gunpowder and other nitrocellulose-based propellants, Badger played a vital and controversial role in the life of central Wisconsin throughout the latter...
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the...
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSSThe incredible untold story of four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War II.Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was...
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. KennedyThe extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power - hailed as a "breathtaking account" by James Patterson, "masterfully written" by historian Douglas Brinkley, and "the finest book" ever written on the subject by Lt....
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Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever WarTwo assistant US attorneys race to lock up a dangerous al Qaeda terrorist before he's set free in one of the most riveting true crime stories of the 21st century--from #1 New York Times bestselling author and CNN anchor Jake Tapper. June 2011: a...
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Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of JapanWith the development of the B-29 "Superfortress" in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan experienced the three most deadly bombing attacks of the war. The firebombing of Tokyo...
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Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate SubmarineThe history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron "fish boat" vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more...
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Razor 03: A Night Stalker's Wars"A truly extraordinary book by a phenomenal pilot and warrior. Alan Mack was in the thick of every sensitive, harrowing, high-stakes operation in the decade following 9/11. His account of combat from the cockpit of the world's most exceptional special ops aviation unit and...
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Rebel FallsWinner of the W.Y. Boyd Literary Novel Award for Excellence in Military Fiction by the Academic Council of the United Nations System.With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The Civil War rages on. Sherman is marching on Atlanta, while...
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall JacksonFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as...
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American ValorTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating in Afghanistan by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. "'It...
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Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate CapitalNelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee realized that his army...
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Rise to Command: Black Military Officers' Stories of Survival and Leadership from World War II Through the Cold WarAn intimate view of the triumphs and challenges experienced by Black officers in the twentieth century.Rise to Command is a social history told in the words of seventeen Black military officers who grew up in the Jim Crow era and served in the US...
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths...
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Robert E. Lee: A LifeA WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil...
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Robert Neyland: The West Point Engineer Who Built Tennessee Football"Johnson's noteworthy book is a masterful combination of history, sportswriting, and biography rich in information not found elsewhere." -Booklist, Starred ReviewA celebration of coaching great Robert Neyland Robert Neyland was not your typical college football coach. A graduate of West Point and veteran of...
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