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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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Samurai!
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Editorial Reviews Product Description This text documents the chivalry and valour of the combat aviator, Saburo Sakai, who fought American fighte...
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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /During World War II more than one thousand Filipinas were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lolas’ House tells the stories of sixteen surv...
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The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As ...
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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told.With the same “grunt's-eye-view” n...
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Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The official U.S. Army account of Army performance in the Gulf War, Certain Victory was originally published by the Office of the Chief of Staff,...
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War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herr's classic Dispatches, NBC News's award-winning Middle East Burea...
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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Third Edition / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the Americ...
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The River War by Winston S. Churchill, History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Churchil,l with his powerful insight, tells the tale of how the war changed the fates of England, Egypt and the Arabian peoples in northeast Afri...
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The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German ar...
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The Pledge
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This is the story of the secret American underground that after World War II helped arm the new state of Istael for its war of independence. It i...
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreig...
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The Korean War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Dougla...
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of ...
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Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…" —New York Journal of BooksJapan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story ...
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The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /No one knows more about Iraq’s nuclear weapons program than Mahdi Obeidi, the man who headed its successful uranium enrichment effort. In the imm...
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The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Michael Haag, bestselling author of The Templars: The History and the Myth, comes The Tragedy of the Templars, an exciting new look at the r...
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On ...
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the YearA Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book...
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