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America's Splendid Little Wars: A Short History of U.S. Military Engagement 1975-2000by Peter A. HuchthausenISBN 0670032328 (0-670-03232-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Armadaby Garrett MattinglyISBN 0618565914 (0-618-56591-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relationsby Peter D. FeaverISBN 0674017617 (0-674-01761-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Battle of New Orleans : Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victoryby Robert V. ReminiISBN 0670885517 (0-670-88551-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Battle of Hurtgen Forestby Charles WhitingISBN 0671686364 (0-671-68636-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Battle of Leyte Gulfby Thomas J. CutlerISBN 0671536702 (0-671-53670-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle of Leyte Gulf'Book summary:Two hundred and eighty-two ships, some of them the largest and most powerful ever built... nearly 200,000 men, many sent to the bottom of the sea... a cast of characters that included MacArthur, Roosevelt, Halsey, and Nimitz... more than 100,000 square miles of fire and blood... they all came together in one unique battle, the singular turning point in the tide of WWII and in the history of warfare. Now, using materials previously unavailable, award-winning author Thomas J. Cutler captures the awe-inspiring heroism, the flawed strategies, the brilliant deception, and the brutal reality of the greatest naval battle of all time. From seaman to admiral, from aerial to surface to submarine combat, every facet, every weapon, every controversy-- on both sides of the firing line-- explodes off the page in this impressive account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. [via]
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Bloodsby Wallace TerryISBN 0613911563 (0-613-91156-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilotby Robert L. GandtISBN 0670867217 (0-670-86721-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bomber Commandby Max HastingsISBN 0671680706 (0-671-68070-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Born on the Fourth of Julyby Ron KovicISBN 0671681494 (0-671-68149-4)
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Brave Men - Dark Watersby Orr Kelly, Eric TobiasISBN 0671867628 (0-671-86762-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave Men - Dark Waters'Book summary:STRIKE HARD. STRIKE FAST. STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEART OF THE ENEMY.
They operate by sea, air, and land, descending from the night sky, rising from the ocean depths, striking their targets with deadly efficiency, then vanishing into the darkness from which they emerged. From the dank jungles of Vietnam to the tropical shores of Panama to the blistering sands of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the U.S. Navy SEALs have become the most fearsome special operations force in the world, living by the motto "The only easy day was yesterday."
In this unparalleled account of the origin, evolution, and future of this revered military elite, Orr Kelly brilliantly reveals their tactics and their methods, their past triumphs and scandals, including the celebrated Richard Marcinko (Rogue Warrior) case. Brave Men-Dark Waters leads us into the shadowy realm of danger and deception where SEAL commandos live -- and sometimes die -- by their own rules. [via]
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Bright Starby Harold Coyle, Paul McCarthyISBN 0671685430 (0-671-68543-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bright Star'Book summary:In the not-too-distant future, an assassination attempt by Libyan terrorists sparks an Egyptian retaliatory raid across the borders. As the conflict intensifies, U.S. and Soviet troops are drawn into the battle. Front-line s oldiers on both sides embark on daring commando raids and face horrifi c nerve gas attacks. [via]
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Caesar: The Civil Warsby Julius CaesarISBN 0674990439 (0-674-99043-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Civil Wars'Book summary:Caesar (C. Iulius, 10244 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of Commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, 5852 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain 5554, and three on the civil war of 4948. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person, the account of the civil war being somewhat more impassioned.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar is in three volumes. Volume I is his Gallic War. The Alexandrian War, the African War and the Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship, are collected in Volume III.
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Caught in the Crossfireby David DrakeISBN 0671878824 (0-671-87882-4)
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Cetagandaby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671877011 (0-671-87701-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cetaganda'Book summary:Attending a diplomatic ceremony on Cetaganda, Miles and Cousin Ivan get into a heap of political trouble when the late empress's lifelong attendant is murdered, and Ivan gets involved with several beautiful and well-connected aliens. [via]
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Cetaganda: A Vprlpsogam Advemtireby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671877445 (0-671-87744-5)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Cluster Commandby David Drake, Bill DietzISBN 0671698176 (0-671-69817-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Command in Warby Martin Van CreveldISBN 0674144414 (0-674-14441-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexicoby Hugh ThomasISBN 0671511041 (0-671-51104-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cross the Starsby David DrakeISBN 0671578219 (0-671-57821-9)
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Day One: Before Hiroshima and Afterby Peter WydenISBN 0671461427 (0-671-46142-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Death's Head Rebellionby Jerry PournelleISBN 0671720279 (0-671-72027-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Designation Goldby Richard Marcinko, John WeismanISBN 0671896741 (0-671-89674-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Designation Gold'Book summary:The Rogue Warrior has come to Moscow to investigate the assassination of Paul Mahon, U.S. Defense attaché in Russia. Marcinko knows who killed him -- Andrei Yudin, a godfather in the Russian Mafia -- and he wants to know why. Instead, he finds a cabal of corrupt, mob-linked russian politicians. The revelation gets him yanked back to Washington, where orders come down to disband his elite team of SEALs.
But even as the Pentagon's chain of command becomes a noose around his neck, Marcinko begins to cut and slash his way to the truth behind Mahon's death. More about survival than revenge, his mission soon leads him to a black-market network peddling terrorism in Paris, sinister trading in the Middle East, and a devil of a deal that puts American's safety up for sale.... [via]
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Divided Allegianceby Elizabeth MoonISBN 0671697862 (0-671-69786-2)
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Ethan of Athosby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 067165604X (0-671-65604-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan of Athos'Book summary:Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200-year-old cultures are not providing eggs the way they used to, and attempts to order replacements by mail have failed catastrophically. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs, he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics--and the only person who's around to rescue him is the inimitable--and, disturbingly, female--Elli Quinn, Dendarii rent-a-spy. [via]
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Fields of Fireby James Webb, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671731386 (0-671-73138-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Firewallby Andy McNabISBN 0593046684 (0-593-04668-4)
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Foreign Legionsby David DrakeISBN 0671319906 (0-671-31990-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreign Legions'Book summary:"Lots of Soldiers Work for Civilians
They don't Like,
but these Romans had It Worse
than Most --
Their Commanders were
Blue-Skinned Aliens!"
The guilds of star-traveling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of the natives of planets they were exploiting: military operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than swords and bows.
That was no handicap to merchant princes with a galaxy to scour for military slaves to do their fighting for them. Some came to Earth for soldiers and returned to the stars with the best the planet had to offer. For over two thousand years the aliens thought they'd succeeded brilliantly -- but then things changed!
Set in the universe of "Ranks of Bronze, " masterful new novellas by
David Drake
Eric Flint
S. M. Stirling
Mark L. Van Name
and David Weber
explore the bleeding edge between human courage and the science of alien slavemasters. The right man with a sword is just as deadly as a technician with a laser --
And not all the blood spilled is red!
YESTERDAY THEY WERE THE BEST
INFANTRY ON EARTH-
NOW THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ON THE
WHOLE GALAXY. [via]
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Forever Forward: The Story of the 2/31st Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF, 1940-45by John Laffin, 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion AssociationISBN 0646185837 (0-646-18583-7)
Hardcover, 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion Association, New South Wales Branch
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From a Dark Sky: The Story of U. S. Air Force Special Operationsby Orr KellyISBN 0671009176 (0-671-00917-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier-A Biographyby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0671892878 (0-671-89287-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier-A Biography'Book summary:This isn't the first biography to be written on Confederate General James Longstreet, but it's the best--and certainly the one that pays the most attention to Longstreet's performance as a military leader. Historian Jeffry D. Wert aims to rehabilitate Longstreet's reputation, which traditionally has suffered in comparison to those of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Some Southern partisans have blamed Longstreet unfairly for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg; Wert corrects the record here. He is not uncritical of Longstreet's record, but he rightly suggests that if Lee had followed Longstreet's advice, the battle's outcome might have been different.
The facts of history cannot be changed, however, and Wert musters them on these pages to advance a bold claim: "Longstreet, not Jackson, was the finest corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia; in fact, he was arguably the best corps commander in the conflict on either side." Wert describes his subject as strategically aggressive, but tactically reserved. The bulk of the book appropriately focuses on the Civil War, but Wert also briefly delves into Longstreet's life before and after it. Most interestingly, it was framed by a friendship with Ulysses S. Grant, formed at West Point and continuing into old age. Longstreet even served in the Grant administration--an act that called into question his loyalty to the Lost Cause, and explains in part why Wert's biography is a welcome antidote to much of what has been written about this controversial figure. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Ghost Roadby Pat BarkerISBN 0670854891 (0-670-85489-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost Road'Book summary:Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a sub-theme throughout the books and here it moves to the forefront. The 1995 Booker Prize winner. [via]
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Go Tell the Spartansby Jerry Pournelle, S. M. StirlingISBN 0671720619 (0-671-72061-9)
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 061318114X (0-613-18114-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. [via]
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Hart's Warby John KatzenbachISBN 0606296417 (0-606-29641-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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He Who Daresby Michael P. KennedyISBN 0671795813 (0-671-79581-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hidden Agendasby Tom ClancyISBN 0606204210 (0-606-20421-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Agendas'Book summary:Years ago, who would have thought that the most powerful computers would one day be household appliances capable of the most technical espionage? With the Internet now providing such possibilities, Tom Clancy, block-busting author of high-tech thrillers, explores this with Net Force. Set in 2010, The Internet has become the planet's central nervous system. This is very appealing for terrorists and in response there is Net Force: highly trained operatives who police the twin worlds of reality and virtual reality. In Hidden Agendas, Louisiana's state capitol building is destroyed using a chemical weapons formula stolen from the Net. The team has to deal with online assaults on the world's banks, murder and possibly the most daring robbery in history. While this series does not have the grand intricacy and epic stance of the Jack Ryan novels, there is no denying that Clancy has a talent for high-tension thrillers and intricate descriptions of high-tech hardware. Obviously aimed at a wider age group, this is an effective thriller with a genuinely interesting premise. Danny Graydon [via]
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House of Chainsby Steven EriksonISBN 0593046250 (0-593-04625-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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The Iliadby Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walker KnoxISBN 0670835102 (0-670-83510-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey. From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics. [via]
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In the Heart of Darknessby Eric Flint, David DrakeISBN 0671878859 (0-671-87885-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Belisarius is all that stands between the alien Malwa and the domination of sixth-century Earth. The ruthless supermind that controls the Malwa intends first to rule the world and then to put its stamp upon all eternity. Guided by visions from a future that may never be, Belisarius and his companions must fight their way across Northern India, seeking the heart of the enemy's power. Against them are numbers, savagery and an icy inhuman intelligence that is without weakness or mercy. And Belisarius has another enemy to contend with, closer to home: in Constantinople, his own emperor, Justinian the Great, begins to see him as a threat... [via]
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Insurrectionby David Weber, Steve WhiteISBN 0671720244 (0-671-72024-4)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietamby Stephen W. SearsISBN 0618344195 (0-618-34419-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam'Book summary:Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on the Battle of Antietam.
The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: on this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. Here renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate, to produce what the New York Times Book Review has called "the best account of the Battle of Antietam." [via]
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Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabiaby Michael Asher, Mariantonietta PeruISBN 0670870293 (0-670-87029-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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Man-Kzin Wars IIIby Larry NivenISBN 0671720082 (0-671-72008-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man-Kzin Wars III'Book summary:The Mind Slavers are back--and only the cat-like Kzinti can save mankind now. This volume includes all-new tales of Larry Niven's Known Space--including one by Niven himself. Another blockbuster in the ongoing chronicle of humanity's greatest war. Original. [via]
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Marching Through Georgiaby S. M. StirlingISBN 0671720694 (0-671-72069-4)
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Memories of Iceby Steven EriksonISBN 0593046242 (0-593-04624-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memories of Ice'Book summary:The third tale from the Mazalan Book of the Fallen, Memories of Ice is a convoluted military fantasy even more dense than its two predecessors. A deranged and not necessarily human prophet has set a cannibal rabble to conquer a continent, and various armies and wizards are out to stop him--but their reasons for doing this are many, various and often conflicting. The previous two books Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates were full of mysteries, some of them answered here--Erikson's is a world in which gods ascend from humanity to replace gods that fall or are overthrown and in which the world and the supernatural warrants that surround it are full of relics of past gods and past cultures. Young officer Paran tries to make sense of the return of his dead beloved as one of the four souls of a magical child; his commander Whiskeyjack tries to do the right thing as both soldier and human being; the scout Toc tries to survive hideous torture and pass on information he only partly knows. Erikson creates an impressive dark world of brutality and sudden beauty in which dizzying vistas of times past suddenly open; his work repays the concentration needed to follow his complex plotting and sentences. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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The Miracle of Dunkirkby Walter LordISBN 0670286303 (0-670-28630-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Oath of Swordsby David WeberISBN 0671876422 (0-671-87642-2)
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One Shot-One Killby Charles W. SasserISBN 0671682199 (0-671-68219-9)
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The Planet Piratesby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0671721879 (0-671-72187-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Planet Pirates'Book summary:THE PLANET PIRATES ENSLAVED SASSINAK AND DESTROYED HER WORLD...A FATAL MISTAKE!
The Planet Pirates traces the careers of two remarkable women. Sassinak escaped from slavery to freedom, and then used that freedom to fight the evil that had wrecked her world, first as a cadet, later as a captain, and finally as an Admiral of the Fleet.
Lunzie, one of the galaxy's greatest healers, is Sassinak's great-grandmother -- but in actual years she is her junior; Lunzie spent nearly a century in coldsleep waiting for rescue when her ship was destroyed. Imagine their mutual surprise when Sassinak rescued her.
How together Sassinak and Lunzie save first a world, and then a confederation of worlds -- and almost in passing establish amity between the genetically engineered Heavy Worlders and normal humanity -- is the story of The Planet Pirates.
Publisher's Note: Never in our experience has a new series met with such solid success as our national bestsellers, THE PLANET PIRATES: Sassinak, The Death of Sleep, and Generation Warriors. Now at last we are able to offer all five hundred thousand words in a single hardcover edition. Note that because of its sheer physical mass, The Planet Pirates can never be offered in a mass market paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Planet Pirates:
Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitlerby David KaiserISBN 0674688163 (0-674-68816-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler Enlarged Edition.by David E. KaiserISBN 0674002725 (0-674-00272-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Prince of Mercenariesby Jerry PournelleISBN 0671698117 (0-671-69811-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Ranks of Bronzeby David DrakeISBN 0671318330 (0-671-31833-0)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Rogue Warrior Designation Goldby Richard Marcinko, John WeismanISBN 0671896733 (0-671-89673-3)
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962by Alistair HorneISBN 0670619647 (0-670-61964-7)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962'Book summary:The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture.
Nearly a half century has passed since this savagely fought war ended in Algerias independence, and yetas Alistair Horne argues in his new preface to his now-classic work of historyits repercussions continue to be felt not only in Algeria and France, but throughout the world. Indeed from todays vantage point the Algerian War looks like a full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that now ravages the Middle East, from Beirut to Baghdadstruggles in which questions of religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism take on a new and increasingly lethal intensity.
A Savage War of Peace is the definitive history of the Algerian War, a book that brings that terrible and complicated struggle to life with intelligence, assurance, and unflagging momentum. It is essential reading for our own violent times as well as a lasting monument to the historians art. [via]More editions of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962:
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorismby Robert Baer, Seymour M. HershISBN 0609609874 (0-609-60987-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism'Book summary:Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East. --Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker
Robert Baer [was] one of the most talented Middle East case officers of the past twenty years. Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic Monthly
In See No Evil, one of the CIAs top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIAs efforts to root out the worlds deadliest terrorists.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the world witnessed the terrible result of that intelligence failure with the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the wake of those attacks, Americans were left wondering how such an obviously long-term, globally coordinated plot could have escaped detection by the CIA and taken the nation by surprise. Robert Baer was not surprised. A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIAs Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the postcold war world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere.
A throwback to the days when CIA operatives got results by getting their hands dirty and running covert operations, Baer spent his career chasing down leads on suspected terrorists in the worlds most volatile hot spots. As he and his agents risked their lives gathering intelligence, he watched as the CIA reduced drastically its operations overseas, failed to put in place people who knew local languages and customs, and rewarded workers who knew how to play the political games of the agencys suburban Washington headquarters but not how to recruit agents on the ground.
See No Evil is not only a candid memoir of the education and disillusionment of an intelligence operative but also an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism. Baer reveals some of the disturbing details he uncovered in his work, including:
* In 1996, Osama bin Laden established a strategic alliance with Iran to coordinate terrorist attacks against the United States.
* In 1995, the National Security Council intentionally aborted a military coup detat against Saddam Hussein, forgoing the last opportunity to get rid of him.
* In 1991, the CIA intentionally shut down its operations in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, and ignored fundamentalists operating there.
When Baer left the agency in 1997 he received the Career Intelligence Medal, with a citation that says, He repeatedly put himself in personal danger, working the hardest targets, in service to his country. See No Evil is Baers frank assessment of an agency that forgot that service to country must transcend politics and is a forceful plea for the CIA to return to its original missionthe preservation of our national sovereignty and the American way of life.
From The Preface
This book is a memoir of one foot soldiers career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks. Its a story about places most Americans will never travel to, about people many Americans would prefer to think we dont need to do business with.
This memoir, I hope, will show the reader how spying is supposed to work, where the CIA lost its way, and how we can bring it back again. But I hope this book will accomplish one more purpose as well: I hope it will show why I am angry about what happened to the CIA. And I want to show why every American and everyone who cares about the preservation of this country should be angry and alarmed, too.
The CIA was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism, and much more. At a time when terrorist threats were compounding globally, the agency that should have been monitoring them was being scrubbed clean instead. Americans were making too much money to bother. Life was good. The White House and the National Security Council became cathedrals of commerce where the interests of big business outweighed the interests of protecting American citizens at home and abroad. Defanged and dispirited, the CIA went along for the ride. And then on September 11, 2001, the reckoning for such vast carelessness was presented for all the world to see. [via]More editions of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism:
Serving in Silenceby Margarethe Cammermeyer, Chris FisherISBN 0670851671 (0-670-85167-1)
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Seven Men of Gasconyby R. F. DelderfieldISBN 0671217941 (0-671-21794-1)
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The Spanish Civil Warby Hugh ThomasISBN 0671758764 (0-671-75876-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spanish Civil War'Book summary:With a keen eye for detail and unparalleled insight, Thomas reassembles the dramatic chain of events that tore apart a nation and led to the tragedy of a civil war that captured the emotions of an entire world. "A full, vivid, and deeply serious treatment of a great subject".--New York Times Book Review. Maps. [via]
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Spetsnazby Viktor SuvorovISBN 0671689177 (0-671-68917-7)
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Starlinerby David DrakeISBN 0671721216 (0-671-72121-6)
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A Stillness at Appomattoxby Bruce CattonISBN 0671531433 (0-671-53143-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Stillness at Appomattox'Book summary:If every historian wrote like Bruce Catton, no one would read fiction. This marvelously well-told account of the final year of the Civil War marches readers from Wilderness, through Petersburg, and finally to the climax at Appomattox. The surrender scene, when Grant and Lee meet at last, is spine tingling. This is the third book of Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy. It's also the best of the bunch, even though the first two, Mr. Lincoln's Army and Glory Road, are both exceptional. Not to be missed. --John Miller [via]
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Sword Pointby Harold CoyleISBN 0671737120 (0-671-73712-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sword Point'Book summary:Gambling on hostile relations between Iran and the US, the Soviet Union invades Iran. America strikes back but when the Soviet onslaught is stopped by an American counter-attack, the superpowers discover that Iranian fanatics have a nuclear bomb ready to explode. [via]
The Tank Lordsby David DrakeISBN 0671877941 (0-671-87794-1)
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Terrible Swift Swordby Bruce CattonISBN 0671619330 (0-671-61933-0)
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That Others May Live: The True Story of a Pj, a Member of America's Most Daring Rescue Forceby Peter Nelson, Jack BrehmISBN 0609605046 (0-609-60504-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Third Optionby Vince FlynnISBN 0671047329 (0-671-04732-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Option'Book summary:Rancorous political infighting surrounds the selection of a successor to the dying head of the CIA just as Mitch Rapp, the agency's top operative, embarks on a dangerous mission to take out a well-known German industrialist believed to be supplying Middle East terrorists with highly sensitive equipment critical to constructing a nuclear bomb. When Rapp's ultimately successful mission is compromised from within, ailing CIA director Thomas Stansfield puts his imprimatur on the efforts of his chosen successor, Irene Kennedy, director of the agency's Counterterrorism Center, to identify the powerful interests both inside and outside the agency that wanted Rapp to fail.
The motive soon becomes clear; there are people who'll stop at nothing to remove Kennedy from the helm of the agency after Stansfield dies. One thing they didn't count on was Rapp's survival, and now he's a lethal weapon whose sights are fixed directly on the most powerful among them. This is a strong, swift thriller, a bit predictable (the senator in the black hat has dogs named Caesar and Brutus) but nonetheless involving. Author Vince Flynn sustains the dramatic tension from the opening paragraph to the last; in Mitch Rapp, he's got the makings of a promising series hero. --Jane Adams [via]
Tomorrow, When the War Beganby John MarsdenISBN 061300132X (0-613-00132-X)
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Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World Warby Peter Calvocoressi, R. John Pritchard, Guy WintISBN 0670803111 (0-670-80311-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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Touched With Fire: The Land War in the South Pacificby Eric Bergerud, Bergeud, Eric, M.ISBN 0670861588 (0-670-86158-8)
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Under Siegeby Stephen CoontsISBN 0671742949 (0-671-74294-9)
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Under the Yokeby S. M. StirlingISBN 0671720775 (0-671-72077-5)
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987by Bob WoodwardISBN 0671661590 (0-671-66159-0)
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Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Teamby George JonasISBN 0671506110 (0-671-50611-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team'Book summary:Vengeance is a true story that reads like a novel. It is the account of five ordinary Israelis, selected to vanish into "the cold" of espionage secrecy -- their mission to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
This is the account of that secret mission, as related by the leader of the group -- the first Mossad agent to come out of "deep cover" and tell the story of a heroic endeavor that was shrouded in silence and speculation for years. He reveals the long and dangerous operation whose success was bought at a terrible cost to the idealistic volunteer agents themselves.
"Avner" was the leader of that team, handpicked by Golda Meir to avenge the monstrous crime of Munich. He and his young companions, cut off from any direct contact with Israel, set out systematically to find and kill the central figures of the PLO's Munich operation, tracking them down wherever they lived.
The mechanics, the horror, the day-by-day suspense of what they did surpass by far anything John le Carré or Robert Ludlum could imagine, as they themselves were tracked in turn (and some killed) by PLO assassins, changing identities constantly, moving from country to country, devoting their young lives to the brutal task of vengeance.
Vengeance is a profoundly human document, a real-life espionage classic that plunges the reader into the shadow world of terrorism and political murder. But it goes far beyond that, to explore firsthand the feelings of disgust and doubt that gradually came to torment each member of the Israeli team, and that in the end inexorably changed their view of the mission -- and themselves.
Vengeance opens a window onto a secret world, a book that at the same time inspires and horrifies. For its subject is an act of revenge that goes to the very heart of the ancient biblical questions of good and evil. [via]
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War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0671672886 (0-671-67288-6)
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War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamericaby Kurt A. Raaflaub, Nathan RosensteinISBN 0674006593 (0-674-00659-3)
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The War God's Ownby David WeberISBN 0671577921 (0-671-57792-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War God's Own'Book summary:David Weber is best known for his Honor Harrington series of science fiction books, but with Oath of Swords he began a lighthearted fantasy saga centered around Bahzell Bahnakson. Bahzell is the reluctant champion of the War God Tomanak (a.k.a. the Sword of Light, the God of Justice, and Captain-General of the Gods of Light) and a member of the Horse Stealer clan hradani. Being a hradani puts Bahzell on a rung of the social ladder somewhere south of deplorable and just west of offensive, making him an unlikely champion for any god, much less Tomanak.
Although this relationship can be trying at the best of times, it's stretched perilously thin in The War God's Own, where Bahzell is called upon by Tomanak to fight the minions of Sharna, the Dark God. This is a fun, swashbuckling story that moves along nicely, managing to be both entertaining and unassuming at the same time. --Craig Engler [via]
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War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases from the Civil War to the Gulf Warby Paul DicksonISBN 0671750240 (0-671-75024-0)
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War Slang: Fighting Words and Phrases of Americans from the Civil War to the Gulf Warby Paul DicksonISBN 0671750224 (0-671-75022-4)
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