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  War

  by Sebastian Junger

  In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat--the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on... (more)
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  Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI

  by Ryan Smithson

  Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.
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  Fiasco

  The American Military Adventure in Iraq

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the... (more)
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  The Fourth Star

  Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

  by Greg Jaffe

  They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the... (more)
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  South of Heaven: My Year in Afghanistan

  by Daniel Flores

  In late 2005, the total casualties in Afghanistan were just barely over one hundred; meanwhile, the news agencies were publicizing, each day, the thousands of American soldiers who were dying in Iraq. There was rarely any mention at all of the conflict going on in Afghanistan. Little did Daniel Flores know that one year later he would be witness to the Taliban resurgence and lose some of his friends in the war. He... (more)
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  In Our Duffel Bags: Surviving The Vietnam Era

  by Richard C. Geschke

  They were young, and they were fighting a war no one wanted to fight. They chose to serve their country despite these challenges. In In Our Duffel Bags, authors Richard Geschke and Robert A. Toto narrate the stories and the experiences of what junior army officers faced as citizen soldiers during pre-voluntary military service from 1969 to 1972. This memoir provides an inside view of the military on the training... (more)
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  The Airplane: The Story of the Next Big Thing

  by Karl Milde

  Never one to color inside the lines, the brilliant inventor Carl Collingwood is positive that his new aircraft will trigger waves of influence worldwide, changing the course of aeronautics forever. Investigative journalist Juli Gables is granted exclusive rights to cover the first flight of Collingwood's groundbreaking aircraft. But when the plane inexplicably crashes and kills its creator, Gables finds herself... (more)
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  United States Army: The Definitive Illustrated History

  by D.M. Giangreco

  Through glorious victories, devastating defeats, and incredible displays of bravery, award-winning author D.M. Giangreco immerses us in the thrilling history of the U.S. Army. From the defeat of British general Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, to Antietam on the bloodiest day of the Civil War, to D-Day, the Tet Offensive, Operation Desert Sabre, and beyond, here is a matchless portrait of the world's greatest... (more)
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  Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

  by Ben Fountain

  Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is the hero of Bravo Company, whose actions during an ambush in the Iraq war were captured on video and broadcast endlessly on Fox News. Recognizing an opportunity to galvanize support for the war, the Army evacuates the eight surviving soldiers to America for a hero’s tour of the heartland. Billy earned a Silver Star, but in spite of his valor, he lost his best buddy, Shroom. He is... (more)
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  The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army

  by Marc Ambinder, D. B. Grady

  The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has proven to be the most lethal weapon in the president's arsenal. Shrouded in secrecy, the Command has done more to degrade the capacity of terrorists to attack the United States than any other single entity. And counter-terrorism is only one of its many missions. Because of such high profile missions as Operation Neptune's Spear, which resulted in the death of... (more)
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  Trial Sixteen

  by Harvey Hiestand

  Trial 1 was burying two steel balls in the desert. Trial 16 is saving a person's life... ...but not just anyone's life--someone who is documented to have died in 1932. Lieutenant Jerry Kilpatrick is carrying newspaper clippings of his target, a Miss Susan Driscoll, on his trip back in time. But when he begins to interfere with her death, the Universe begins to fight back. And the two of them are in for a... (more)
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  The Remains of Company D

  A Story of the Great War

  by James Carl Nelson

  “Not since FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS — no, make that, not since Paul Fussell’s THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY — no, make that 'not ever' — has an American nonfiction writer reached into history and produced a testament of young men in terrible battle with the stateliness, the mastery of cadence, the truthfulness and the muted heartbreak of James Carl Nelson in The Remains of Company D . I wish I’d had the honor of... (more)
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  See Ya

  by Cheryl Kerr

  Lives are often stories not yet written down. Not always ended, either, which can fuse the living and telling into a path not always clear. Some tales take a long time to tell, especially when they start in 1944 and flow into 1996, and the characters weave in and out across those years without knowing one another. Retired Colonel Matthew Rankin s sudden death at a party in 1996 leaves a gap in many lives.... (more)
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  This Means War!

  by Ellen Wittlinger

  Challenges between a group of boys and girls escalate during the Cold War in Ellen Wittlinger's gripping middle-grade novel.
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  Dusty Boots

  My Dakota Cowboy Dad

  by A. Marlene Johnson

  Take one dad with a lifetime of stories, add a daughter who wrote them down, and you have Dusty Boots: My Dakota Cowboy Dad. Orman O. Willey survived a rattlesnake bite as a boy, broke wild horses as a teen cowboy, and enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps to pay his own way at "Aggie" high school. After college he taught in a one-room school until joining the U.S. Army in 1941 to train troops and build... (more)
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  Kaboom

  by Matt Gallagher

  When Lieutenant Matt Gallagher began his blog with the aim of keeping his family and friends apprised of his experiences, he didn’t anticipate that it would resonate far beyond his intended audience. His subjects ranged from mission details to immortality, grim stories about Bon Jovi cassettes mistaken for IEDs, and the daily experiences of the Gravediggers—the code name for members of Gallagher’s platoon. When... (more)
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  Back to Bataan

  by Jerome Charyn

  Hiding out in Riverside Park after lashing out at the boy who stole his girlfriend, Jack joins ranks with a group of vagrants and is soon under the sway of a man called the Leader, a charismatic ex-convict.
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  Alamo In The Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of BastognePossible

  by John C. McManus

  In December 1944, the 101st Airborne made their legendary stand at Bastogne. But their heroics never could have happened if not for the unsung efforts of others. This is the powerful yet little-known story of the bloody delaying action fought by the 28th Infantry Division, elements of the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, and other, smaller units. Outnumbered and outgunned, they made the Germans pay for every icy... (more)
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  Jeff Davis?s Own

  by James R. Arnold

  Excitingly told and meticulously researched, this is an intriguing and colorful saga of the commanders who united to fight an enemy on its native ground, then divided again to face each other across the battlefields of their own homeland.
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  Black Hawk Down

  A Story of Modern War

  by Mark Bowden

  The acclaimed New York (NY) Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were... (more)