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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the most famous first-hand accounts of the Second Boer war, written by a soldier who served on the Boer commandos from the very first to t...
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Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Written by a master storyteller, Tycoon's War is the remarkable account of an epic imperialist duel--a violent battle of the capitalist versus th...
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Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the em...
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Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to...
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Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Did the Vietnam War have to happen? And why couldn't it have ended earlier? These are among the questions that Robert McNamara and his collaborat...
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Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-...
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Drawing Fire: A Pawnee, Artist, and Thunderbird in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In 1940 Brummett Echohawk, an eighteen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard. Within three years his unit, a tough collection o...
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Bare Feet, Iron Will Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The author and every male member of his immediate family served in the Vietnam war. In 1988, his older brother, Elmo, died from Agent Orange-rela...
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Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led t...
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After the Korean War: An Intimate History
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War'...
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1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"A marvelous achievement . . . Anyone curious about the extraordinary six days of Arab-Israeli war will learn much from it."—The EconomistTom Seg...
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our earl...
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The Vietnam War in the Pacific World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the war's mark on the Pacific...
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between B...
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Coast Guard Action In Vietnam: Stories of Those Who Served
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Well-crafted, this lively and engaging history will rejuvenate one's pride in the American military with its little-known details of the Coast Gu...
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Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Nawa deftly sketches the geopolitical nightmare that is today’s Afghanistan, but the book’s real strength is her detailed, sensitive reporting o...
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The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you don't persecute him – you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a g...
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Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the PacificSigned on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri ...
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The American War in Afghanistan: A History
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A New York Times Notable BookWinner of 2022 Lionel Gelber PrizeThe first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's lea...
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Year Of The Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, “highly recommended” (Library Journal, starred review) account of the most pivotal year of the ...
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of littl...
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the skies over Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and became immortal as the Flying Tige...
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Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In early summer 1982—winter in the South Atlantic—Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a British Royal Navy Task Force ...
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times...
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