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The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterlooby Russell Frank WeigleyISBN 0253217075 (0-253-21707-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo'Book summary:"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." Gunther E. Rothenberg
"[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." John Bayley, The London Review of Books
"What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of rational warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
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Americans at Warby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 1578060265 (1-57806-026-5)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Cenuryby Martin Harry Greenberg, Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345439899 (0-345-43989-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Cenury'Book summary:It's not merely a task that's thankless--it's impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and military SF, at that)? But this 13-story collection really does pull together at least some of the best short stories penned for the genre in the last century. Thanks to editors Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, you'll find some of science fiction's biggest names--and most influential shorts--in this expertly chosen anthology.
Chronologically, the entries range from '50s pieces like Philip K. Dick's "Second Variety" and Arthur C. Clarke's "Superiority" to more modern ruminations on war like "The Scapegoat" by C.J. Cherryh and "To the Storming Gulf" by Gregory Benford. But rather than quality (all these stories are of inarguable pedigree) or even breadth, what might recommend these most to readers new to them are the ideas and other works they later inspired: Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonrider" and Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" both gave rise to phenomenally successful series, Joe W. Haldeman's "Hero" preceded The Forever War, and Philip K. Dick's "Second Variety" became the SF thriller Screamers. The collection also gives you a glimpse of what dark thoughts were rattling around the heads of prolific writers like David Drake and George R.R. Martin in the '70s. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Blue at the Mizzenby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393048446 (0-393-04844-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Border Reiversby Keith Durham, Angus McBrideISBN 1855324172 (1-85532-417-2)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Border Reivers'Book summary:From the 13th century until early in the 17th century, the Border Marches of England and Scotland were torn by a vicious and almost continuous cycle of raid, reprisal and blood feud. The Border Reiver was a professional cattle thief, a guerilla soldier skilled at raiding, tracking and ambush, and a well organized "gangster." Including eight superb full page color plates by Angus McBride, as well as numerous other illustrations, this text by Keith Durham explores the colorful history of these remarkable people. [via]
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Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraibby Seymour M. HershISBN 0060955376 (0-06-095537-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 To ABU Ghraib'Book summary:Seymour Hersh has been a legendary investigative reporter since 1969 when he broke the My Lai story in Vietnam. His considerable skill and well-placed sources inside the government, intelligence community, military, and the diplomatic corps have allowed him access to a wide range of information unavailable to most reporters. Chain of Command is packed with specific details and thoughtful analysis of events since the attacks of September 11, 2001, including intelligence failures prior to 9/11; postwar planning regarding Afghanistan and Iraq; the corruption of the Saudi family; Pakistan's nuclear program, which spread nuclear technology via the black market (and admitted as such); influence peddling at the highest levels; and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, among other topics. The book collects and elaborates on stories Hersh wrote for The New Yorker, and includes an introduction by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, on Hersh's background and his sources.
Part of Hersh's skill lies in uncovering official reports that have been buried because government or military leaders find them too revealing or embarrassing. Chain of Command is filled with such stories, particularly regarding the manner in which sensitive intelligence was gathered and disseminated within the Bush administration. Hersh details how serious decisions were made in secret by a small handful of people, often based on selective information. Part of the problem was, and remains, a lack of human intelligence in critical parts of the Middle East, but it also has much to do with the considerable infighting within the administration by those trying to make intelligence fit preconceived conclusions. A prime example of this is the story about the files that surfaced allegedly detailing how Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger in order to build nuclear weapons. Though the files were soon proven to be forgeries, the Bush administration still used them as evidence against Saddam Hussein and therefore part of the reason for invading Iraq. In these pages, Hersh offers readers a clearer understanding of what has happened since September 11, and what we might expect in the future. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Charley's War: Blue's Storyby Pat Mills, Joe ColquhounISBN 1840236272 (1-84023-627-2)
Hardcover, Titan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charley's War: Blue's Story'Book summary:From renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law, Slaine) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) comes a truly classic piece of British comics history, by turns thrilling, humorous and horrifying. In 1916, Charley Bourne lies about his age to enlist and fight on the battlefields of France. But thoughts of glory and patriotism are swept aside by the bloody artillery barrage of horror and needless sacrifice amidst the trenches of the First World War. Rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a 'Tommy', Charley's War features a brand new introduction and 'director's commentary' by Pat Mills, a cultural history of the comic, and an essay on the Battle of the Somme. [via]
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Charlie Companyby Peter Goldman, Tony FullerISBN 0345314964 (0-345-31496-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unitby Donald Knox, Charlie A. BeckwithISBN 0380809397 (0-380-80939-7)
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The Enemy: A Jack Reacher Novelby Lee ChildISBN 0375433376 (0-375-43337-6)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enemy : A Jack Reacher Novel'Book summary:Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldiers son. An elite military cop, he was one of the armys brightest stars. But in every cops life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
New Years Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina hot-sheets motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation cant be controlled. Within hours the generals wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
Two Special Forces soldiersthe toughest of the toughare taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacheran ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unitis being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.
But Reacher wont quit. Hes fighting a new kind of war. And hes taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didnt know he had. With his French-born mother dyingand divulging to her son one last, stunning secretReacher is forced to question everything he once believed&about his family, his career, his loyaltiesand himself. Because this soldiers son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent deathand a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed. [via]More editions of The Enemy: A Jack Reacher Novel:
Essential Militariaby Nicholas HobbesISBN 1843542293 (1-84354-229-3)
Hardcover, Atlantic
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The Expedition of Cyrusby Xenophon, Robin Waterfield, Tim RoodISBN 0192824309 (0-19-282430-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expedition of Cyrus'Book summary:The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited at the end of the fifth century BC by a young Persian prince, Cyrus, who rose in revolt agains his brother, the King of Persia. After Cyrus' death, the army is left stranded in the desert of Mespotamia, a thousand miles from home. Their long march, across mountains and plateaus to the sight of "The sea! The sea!," and back to the fringes of the Greek world, is the most excititng adventure story to survive from the ancient world.
This new translation of Xenophon's most famous work offers a gripping narrative and a unique insight into the character of a Greek army struggling to survive in an alien world.
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A Farewell to Armsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0317562185 (0-317-56218-5)
Softcover, Ingram Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Farewell to Arms'Book summary:As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with A Farewell to Arms. This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancé of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn't married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:
I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know.
The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and A Farewell to Arms, like his other novels (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and To Have and Have Not), offers neither. What it does provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Fortune of Warby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308138 (0-393-30813-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortune of War'Book summary:"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
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The French Foreign Legion: Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Forceby Douglas PorchISBN 0060923083 (0-06-092308-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Gods and Generalsby Jeff ShaaraISBN 0345409574 (0-345-40957-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gods and Generals'Book summary:In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara explores the lives of Generals Lee, Hancock, Jackson and Chamberlain as the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg approaches. Shaara captures the disillusionment of both Lee and Hancock early in their careers, Lee's conflict with loyalty, Jackson's overwhelming Christian ethic and Chamberlain's total lack of experience, while illustrating how each compensated for shortcomings and failures when put to the test. The perspectives of the four men, particularly concerning the battles at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, make vivid the realities of war. [via]
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Good-Bye to All Thatby Robert GravesISBN 0385093306 (0-385-09330-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Bye to All That: An Autobiography'Book summary:The quintessential memoir of the generation of Englishmen who suffered in World War I is among the bitterest autobiographies ever written. Robert Graves's stripped-to-the-bone prose seethes with contempt for his class, his country, his military superiors, and the civilians who mindlessly cheered the carnage from the safety of home. His portrait of the stupidity and petty cruelties endemic in England's elite schools is almost as scathing as his depiction of trench warfare. Nothing could equal Graves's bone-chilling litany of meaningless death, horrific encounters with gruesomely decaying corpses, and even more appalling confrontations with the callousness and arrogance of the military command. Yet this scarifying book is consistently enthralling. Graves is a superb storyteller, and there's clearly something liberating about burning all your bridges at 34 (his age when Good-Bye to All That was first published in 1929). He conveys that feeling of exhilaration to his readers in a pell-mell rush of words that remains supremely lucid. Better known as a poet, historical novelist, and critic, Graves in this one work seems more like an English Hemingway, paring his prose to the minimum and eschewing all editorializing because it would bring him down to the level of the phrase- and war-mongers he despises. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Guerra Y Pazby Leo N. Tolstoy, Gala Arias RubioISBN 0307273911 (0-307-27391-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerra Y Paz'Book summary:The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.[via]More editions of Guerra Y Paz:
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H.M.S Surprise: Library Editionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393307611 (0-393-30761-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'H.M.S Surprise: Library Edition'Book summary:"Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it."Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press
Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet... [via]More editions of H.M.S Surprise: Library Edition:
Harvard's Educationby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0373078846 (0-373-07884-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Homage to Cataloniaby George OrwellISBN 0156421178 (0-15-642117-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homage to Catalonia'Book summary:"I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets." Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles, the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of the Fascists. [via]
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783by Alfred T. MahanISBN 1589801555 (1-58980-155-5)
Hardcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783'Book summary:Noted nineteenth-century U.S. naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan argues that, despite great changes and scientific advances in naval weaponry, certain principles of naval strategy remain constant. [via]
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Inside the Third Reichby Albert SpeerISBN 002037500X (0-02-037500-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Third Reich'Book summary:From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire, and of Hitler himself.
Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout, Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler [via]
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Into the Nightby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345458850 (0-345-45885-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Jungle Is Neutralby F. Spencer ChapmanISBN 1592281079 (1-59228-107-9)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Last Stand!: Famous Battles Against the Oddsby Bryan PerrettISBN 1854091883 (1-85409-188-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraqby John CrawfordISBN 1594482012 (1-59448-201-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq'Book summary:John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly marriedin fact, on his honeymoonhe was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq.[via]Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began writing the true stories of what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became this booka haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
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Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfareby Samuel B. GriffithISBN 1877853100 (1-877853-10-0)
Hardcover, Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officerby Siegfried SassoonISBN 1931313814 (1-931313-81-4)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
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A Military History of the Western World: From the Defeat of the Spanish Armada to the Battle of Waterlooby J.F.C. FullerISBN 0306803054 (0-306-80305-4)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Napoleon and Wellingtonby Andrew RobertsISBN 0297646079 (0-297-64607-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon and Wellington'Book summary:On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses. The constantly changing relationship between these two nineteenth-century giants forms the basis of Andrew Roberts' compelling study in pride, rivalry, propaganda, nostalgia, and posthumous revenge. [via]
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Opera Omnia Expedito Cyriby XenophonISBN 0198145543 (0-19-814554-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotesby Max HastingsISBN 0195205286 (0-19-520528-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes'Book summary:If anecdotes are marginal notes on the pages of history, these will delight any reader who has ever been moved or entertained by the condition of the soldier. Few fields of human endeavor have inspired so many memorable anecdotes as warfare, from the Bible and Livy through Gibbon and Froissart, to the imperial wars of the nineteenth century and the world conflicts of the twentieth.
This collection is principally concerned with American and British conflicts, with, as the author says, "occasional forays among the ranks of foreign armies"--notably the Greeks, the Romans, and Napoleon's veterans. Hastings has sought stories that illustrate the military condition through the ages, both on the battlefield and in barracks: comic, eccentric, heroic, tragic. Here are Caesar at the Rubicon and the revolt of the Praetorian Guard; Alexander's horse and Prince Rupert's dog; the legendary Mother Ross enlisting in search of her lost husband in 1693; Evelyn Waugh as the least plausible of commandos; General Douglas MacArthur's good luck charm "Charlie," a lump of lava rock carved into a Hawaiian warrior; and much more. Some of the stories will be familiar to students of military history while others are less well known, but all provide fascinating sidelights to history.
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Patton: Ordeal and Triumphby Ladislas FaragoISBN 1594160112 (1-59416-011-2)
Softcover, Westholme Pub Llc
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The Persian Expeditionby Xenophon, Rex Warner, George CawkwellISBN 0140440070 (0-14-044007-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby Ulysses S. GrantISBN 1598188992 (1-59818-899-2)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant'Book summary:Known as the "savior of the Union" during the Civil War, General Grant went on to serve as the 18th president of the United States from 1869-1877. This second volume of his memoirs was completed just days prior to his death from throat cancer in 1885. [via]
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grantby U GrantISBN 1596059990 (1-59605-999-0)
Hardcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant'Book summary:Destitute and wracked by throat cancer, Ulysses S. Grant finished writing his Personal Memoirs shortly before his death in 1885. Today their clear prose stands as a model of autobiography. Civil War soldiers are often celebrated for the high literary quality of the letters they sent home from the front lines; Grant's own book is probably the best piece of writing produced by a participant in the War Between the States. Apart from Lincoln, no man deserves more credit for securing the Northern victory than Grant, and this chronicle of campaigns and battles tells how he did it. (The book also made a bundle of money for his family, which had been reeling from the failure of Grant's brokerage firm.) This is not an overview of the entire Civil War; as the North was beating the South on the third day of Gettysburg, for example, Grant was in Mississippi capturing Vicksburg. But it is a great piece of writing, one that can be appreciated even by readers with little interest in military history. --John J. Miller [via]
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Post Captainby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393307069 (0-393-30706-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Post Captain'Book summary:As the first sentences of Post Captain roll off actor Robert Hardy's tongue, you know you're somewhere you've never been before: the high seas in the early 19th century. Hardy's rich rendition of Patrick O'Brian's 1972 novel, a follow-up to Master and Commander, starts with series heroes Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin enjoying a brief period of peace. Soon enough, though, the Napoleonic Wars resume, and the seafaring adventures continue. (Running time: 4.5 hours, three cassettes) --Lou Schuler [via]
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916by Alistair HorneISBN 0140170413 (0-14-017041-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Right Stuffby Tom WolfeISBN 1579124585 (1-57912-458-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Stuff'Book summary:Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne.
Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Rising Sunby John TolandISBN 1844153045 (1-84415-304-5)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rising Sun'Book summary:This magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of the Empire of the Sun from the invasion of Manchuria to the dropping of the atomic bombs, demolishing many myths surrounding this catastrophic conflict. Why did the dawn attack on Pearl Harbor occur? Was was inevitable? Was the Emperor a puppet or a warmonger? And, finally, what inspired the barbaric actions of those who fought, and who speak here of the unspeakable - murder, cannibalism and desertion?
'Unbelievably rich ... Readable and exciting' -Newsweek
'The most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific War' -Chicago Sunday Times [via]More editions of The Rising Sun:
A Secret Historyby Mary GentleISBN 0380788691 (0-380-78869-1)
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Sharpe's Fortressby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061098639 (0-06-109863-9)
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Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803by Bernard CornwellISBN 0061012718 (0-06-101271-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803'Book summary:Fighting in the millet fields of India circa 1803, Richard Sharpe knows trouble when he sees it: dissension in the ranks, a feverish and arrogant enemy, nobody to confide in. Unbeknownst to his comrades, Sharpe has buried a fortune in booty along the way. He knows his freedom is coming, and it's only a matter of time before he can feast on the spoils. Sharpe's Fortress is the 17th in Bernard Cornwell's series starring this colonial British soldier who has risen in the ranks despite blunders and misadventures, not to mention his own suspicions of the men around him.
Treason, near-death experiences, cannonballs hidden in the tall grass "sticky with blood and thick with flies, lying twenty paces from the man it had eviscerated," these are the elements of Cornwell's war stories, which rely heavily on long, involved--and involving--battle scenes, marvelous description, and bawdy dialogue in the trenches (a highlight: arguments over whether there's such a thing as breasts that look like grapes). For readers who hunger for humorous, complex characterizations, Sharpe proves vivid and three-dimensional. He holds tightly to his dreams of treasure, eavesdropping on betrayers, ultimately hatching a desperate plan to make his way to the fortress in the sky, Gawilghur. Cornwell's hero is an honest soldier, and also a pragmatic one. He doesn't care as much about the medals and the glory as he cares about dodging cannon fire and finding a place to sleep. --Ellen Williams [via]
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She Is the Darkness : Glittering Stoneby Glen CookISBN 0312859074 (0-312-85907-4)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She Is the Darkness : Glittering Stone'Book summary:[via]The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid.At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep slow breath like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.More editions of She Is the Darkness : Glittering Stone:
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyrannyby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0385720599 (0-385-72059-9)
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Spandau: The Secret Diariesby Albert SpeerISBN 0002167638 (0-00-216763-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spandau: The Secret Diaries'Book summary:He served as Hitler's architect, the undisputed master of the German war machine, and the one responsible for conscripted foreign labor in the Third Reich. And, when Albert Speer was captured and sentenced at Nuremberg--after becoming the only defendant to plead guilty--he started keeping this secret diary, much of it on toilet paper. After 20 years of imprisonment, he found 25,000 of the smuggled pages waiting for him, and from those entries he shaped this deeply powerful document. "Albert Speer's book is a deeply moving document. It is also of extraordinary political and psychological interest...a must for anyone interested in psychological motivation of political action and the problem of guilt and repentance. But, beyond this it is so fascinatingly written that I could not put it down before I finished it." --Erich Fromm.[via]
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The Surgeon's Mateby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308200 (0-393-30820-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Surgeon's Mate'Book summary:Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. [via]
Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Presentby Martin Van CreveldISBN 0029331536 (0-02-933153-6)
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The Thirty Years Warby C. V. Wedgwood, Anthony GraftonISBN 1590171462 (1-59017-146-2)
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Treason's Harbourby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308634 (0-393-30863-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treason's Harbour'Book summary:"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."J. de Courcy Ireland
All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission. [via] -
War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140444173 (0-14-044417-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peacepresented here in the first new English translation in forty yearsis often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness. As Tolstoy follows the changing fortunes of his characters, he crafts a view of humanity that is both epic and intimate and that continues to define fiction at its most resplendent.[via]
* Includes an introduction, note on the translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major battles depicted, and chapter summaries
"The best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English."
-Robert A. Maguire, professor emeritus of Russian studies, Columbia University
"In Tolstoy's work part of the translator's difficulty lies in conveying not only the simplicity but the subtlety of the book's scale and effect. . . . Briggs has rendered both with a particular exactness and a vigorous precision not to be found, I think, in any previous translation."
-John Bayley, author of Elegy for Iris
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Warfighting: The United States Marine CorpsISBN 0385478348 (0-385-47834-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Water Sleepsby Glen CookISBN 0312859090 (0-312-85909-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Water Sleeps'Book summary:For years, Glen Cook's Black Company series has built a major audience among fantasy fans. Beginning as paperback originals in the 1980s, continuing in hardcover in the 1990s, this epic of warfare between sorcerers and demigods, all told from the "worm's-eye" view of the soldiers and functionaries who fight for them, has riveted a generation of readers. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them.
Now Cook brings the latest cycle of the epic to a major climax, as the survivors of the disaster at the end of She Is the Darkness regroup in Taglios. Determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain, they journey there under terrible conditions, arriving just in time for a magical conflagaration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new worlds gained and lost -- all at a terrible price. [via]
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Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empireby Wesley ClarkISBN 1586482777 (1-58648-277-7)
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The Yellow Admiral: Library Editionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 1568954301 (1-56895-430-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Admiral: Library Edition'Book summary:At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O'Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amount ashore, his prospects of admiralty dimmed and Sophie's affection waning. At sea, he fares little better: in the storms off Brest he captures a French privateer ladden with gold and ivory at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. And worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out...
Fortunately, Maturin returns from a mission in Chile with news that may help restore Aubrey to good favor with both his beloved navy and wife. Then, off to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.
The Yellow Admiral is a change of pace, a reversion to the themes of the earlier novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Much of the story takes place on land, giving scope to O'Brian's fascination with the landscape, physical and social, of early nineteenth-century England. In vivid glimpses of various rural pursuits, and nuanced observation of politics and domestic arrangements, O'Brian proves himself ever more surely to be the heir of Jane Austen. Not to say there aren't some rousing and bloody sea-battles! [via]
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Yokota Officer's Clubby Sarah BirdISBN 0345452771 (0-345-45277-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yokota Officer's Club'Book summary:Sarah Birds gutsy, sharp, and touching new novel opens at full speed.
Bernadette "Bernie" Root, military brat, speaks. She has never really noticed what a peculiar bunch of nomads her eight-member Air Force family is (with the exception of her Post Princess sister, Kit), until the summer after her first year of college when she joins them at their new assignment: Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.
Just as Okinawa turns out to be a sorry version of the Japanese paradise Bernie knew in her childhood at Yokota Air Base, her family, especially her once-beautiful mother, Moe, and her former spy-pilot father, Mace, seems to have been in decline since those glory days of the American Raj. Days when her mother was happy and their best friend, Fumiko, now lost to them, was the familys maid. The worst part of Okinawa for Bernie, though, is realizing how perfectly she fits with her oddball family and how badly she needs to get out.
So when a dance contest first prize, a trip to Japan,offers a chance to escape, she takes it, playing second banana to a third-rate comedian on a tour of Japans military bases. At their grand finale at the Yokota Officers Club, Fumiko finally reappears, and Bernie discovers the terrible price that is paid when the secrets nations hide end up buried within families.
A brilliantly appealing novel whose energy, wit, and feeling have won for it (see back of the jacket) extraordinary advance praise. [via]
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