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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of...
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Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of Seal Team SixThe basis of the provocative hit military documentary Fallen Angel Call Sign: Extortion 17. A Black Hawk Down of the war in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the U.S. in 12 years of that conflict--and a military investigation that covered up evidence of an...
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Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's Chocolate PilotOne WWII pilot's mission to lift the spirits of children living in war-torn Berlin in 1945 comes to life in this moving middle-grade historical account. After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air...
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Cat 5: The 2033 WarLearn from losing three wars--or lose the next one in 2033. Bing West is the only historian to serve on the front lines in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan--and at the highest levels of government. He fought in the battles he writes about, and he...
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Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the RepublicHow did past civilizations rise and fall? How rare is America's experiment with a republic? With every crisis, is power being taken away from "the people" and transfered to the central government. Does history give us a clue as to where all this is...
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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life After World War IISee E.B. Sledge's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific! China Marine is the extraordinary sequel to E.B. Sledge's memoir, With the Old Breed, which remains the most powerful and moving account of the U.S. Marines in World War II. Sledge continues his story...
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Chop that Sh*t Up!: Leadership and Life Lessons Learned While in the MilitaryFirst place winner in the category Military Nonfiction in the 2023 Firebird Book Awards.Chop that Sh*t Up! is a collection of stories by a military veteran with deployments ranging from Bosnia-Herzegovina to tours in Iraq. Follow along his twenty-eight-year career from private to command...
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Chop that Sh*t Up!: Leadership and Life Lessons Learned While in the MilitaryFirst place winner in the category Military Nonfiction in the 2023 Firebird Book Awards.Chop that Sh*t Up! is a collection of stories by a military veteran with deployments ranging from Bosnia-Herzegovina to tours in Iraq. Follow along his twenty-eight-year career from private to command...
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of GermanyFrom Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this...
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Civil War Camps and Soldier Health: Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union ArmyAn immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers' well-being during the Civil War The Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in camps. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those...
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Civil War Cavalry: Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThe Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standard views of the war's mounted arm. Hess surveys the organization, training, administration, arming, and...
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Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and CoincidencesTrue stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and his...
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Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of Wwii's 10th Mountain DivisionFew stories from the "greatest generation" are as unforgettable -- or as little known -- as that of the 10th Mountain Division. Today a versatile light infantry unit deployed around the world, the 10th began in 1941 as a crew of civilian athletes with...
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil WarA classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a testament to one man's enduring...
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Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American RevolutionAmerica's founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today's standards. It influenced their politics, built and sustained their relationships, and drove the economy. Booze was not a small part of colonial society, nor covertly consumed in private spaces--it was integral to American...
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Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of Seal Team SixA "searing" (Jeremy Scahill) exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military's best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire. The Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate heroes. When they...
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Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma MachineThe white-knuckled saga of a maverick captain, nine courageous sailors, and a US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944--capturing Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine. Two days before D-Day--the course of World...
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Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma MachineThe white-knuckled saga of the US Navy task force that captured Nazi submarine U-505 and the Enigma machine. Two days before D-Day--the course of World War II was forever changed. The German hunters of the Atlantic Ocean had become the hunted, and US antisubmarine...
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Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American PatriotismCountry music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling...
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of SafetyThe Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal. "A devastatingly lucid and detailed new history of nuclear weapons...
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