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Dispatches
Michael Herr
Vintage
Vintage
Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the...
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
John A. Nagl
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife , Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq—considers the...
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret Macmillan
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Random House Trade Paperbacks
National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F....
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Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever- expanding political...
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
Michael B. Oren
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
The history of America's political, military, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. "Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years."—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek ...
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Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
Alex Kershaw
Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press
By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol,...
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Up Front
Bill Mauldin
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Throughout World War II, cartoonist Bill Mauldin documented the adventures and misadventures of dogfaces Willie and Joe, symbols of the hard-pressed infantry, "the group which gives more and gets less than anybody else." In Up Front , recently...
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