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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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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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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant ...
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Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day—shortened to "V.E. Day"—brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-...
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Vietnam: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"A landmark work...The most complete account to date of the Vietnam tragedy." -The Washington Post Book WorldThis monumental narrative clarifies,...
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Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell. Custer's Last Stand is amo...
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The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /• Notorious incident: In 1967 the spy ship USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats in international waters during the...
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /With the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dram...
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Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. ...
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The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on t...
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Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, kil...
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of n...
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of t...
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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there—a story of brotherhood and s...
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut the...
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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Cree...
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This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /“A comprehensive and impressively written history of the Korean War.”—Washington PostSelected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List...
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Ind...
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. Ame...
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This is outstanding narrative history in the grand style -- an eloquent and dramatic account of vital events and vibrant figures which has become...
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Rosebud, June 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Ro...
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Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilson's charge to make the world "safe for democracy" carried life-...
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Edition 2
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume—a finalist for the Pulitzer Pri...
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Edition 2
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume—a finalist for the Pulitzer Pri...
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