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Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfareby Heinz GuderianISBN 0304352853 (0-304-35285-3)
Softcover, Cassell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare'Book summary:A rare, enlightening account by an outstanding soldier reveals his thoughts and theories on armored warfare and motorized land battle--which he then put in action to devastating effect during World War Two. Guderian's treatise on the importance of tank development, and on modern mechanized technology, shows exactly why the Germans dominated land warfare in the early stage of the fighting.[via]More editions of Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare:
Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Forceby Tom ClancyISBN 0425157709 (0-425-15770-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Armyby Donald W. EngelsISBN 0520042727 (0-520-04272-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Armageddon: The Battle For Germany, 1944-1945by Max HastingsISBN 0375714227 (0-375-71422-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45by Max HastingsISBN 0375414339 (0-375-41433-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45'Book summary:Armageddon is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastingsone of Britains most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy to stand with that of the best journalists and writers (New York Times Book Review).
In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitlers army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hürtgen Forest, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a vivid portrait of the Red Armys onslaught on Hitlers empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants and interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, and of their human impact on American, British, German, and Russian soldiers and civilians.
Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause and campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians and Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans and British? Why did the bombing of Germanys cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and the other giants of the struggle.
The crucial final months of the twentieth centurys greatest global conflict come alive in this rousing and revelatory chronicle. [via]More editions of Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45:
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraqby George PackerISBN 0374530556 (0-374-53055-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq'Book summary:As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins the debate with his thoughtful book The Assassins' Gate. Packer describes himself as an ambivalent pro-war liberal "who supported a war [in Iraq] by about the same margin that the voting public had supported Al Gore." He never believed the argument that Iraq should be invaded because of weapons of mass destruction. Instead, he saw the war as a way to get rid of Saddam Hussein and build democracy in Iraq, in the vein of the U.S. interventions in Haiti and Bosnia.
How did such lofty aims get so derailed? How did the U.S. get stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East? Packer traces the roots of the war back to a historic shift in U.S. policy that President Bush made immediately after 9/11. No longer would the U.S. be hamstrung by multilateralism or working through the UN. It would act unilaterally around the world--forging temporary coalitions with other nations where suitable--and defend its status as the sole superpower. But when it came to Iraq, even Bush administration officials were deeply divided. Packer takes readers inside the vicious bureaucratic warfare between the Pentagon and State Department that turned U.S. policy on Iraq into an incoherent mess. We see the consequences in the second half of The Assassins' Gate, which takes the reader to Iraq after the bombs have stopped dropping. Packer writes vividly about how the country deteriorated into chaos, with U.S. authorities in Iraq operating in crisis mode. The book fails to capture much of the debate about the war among Iraqis themselves--instead relying mostly on the views of one prominent Iraqi exile--but it is an insightful contribution to the debate about the decisions--and blunders--behind the war. --Alex Roslin [via]
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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939by Antony BeevorISBN 014303765X (0-14-303765-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Big Red: The Three-Month Voyage of a Trident Nuclear Submarineby Douglas C. WallerISBN 0380820781 (0-380-82078-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of Warby Robert CoramISBN 0316796883 (0-316-79688-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby CaesarISBN 0140444335 (0-14-044433-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby S. A. Handford, CaesarISBN 0140440216 (0-14-044021-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Close Combatby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515112690 (0-515-11269-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close Combat'Book summary:On an island in the Pacific during World War II, Major Jack Dillon struggles to succeed as a combat correspondent and Sergeant McCoy is shocked by the brutality of battle. By the author of the ""Brotherhood of War"" series. 200,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplementoby CaesarISBN 0198146027 (0-19-814602-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Complete Roman Armyby Adrian GoldsworthyISBN 0500051240 (0-500-05124-0)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Counterattackby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515104175 (0-515-10417-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf Warby Rick AtkinsonISBN 0395710839 (0-395-71083-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Cryptonomiconby Neal StephensonISBN 0380788624 (0-380-78862-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cryptonomicon'Book summary:Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed.... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.
Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it's exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose. Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation). --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Dam Bustersby Paul BrickhillISBN 0237448866 (0-237-44886-6)
Hardcover, Evans Bros
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dam Busters'Book summary:The true story of a specially selected Royal Air Force squadron details its epic feat of destroying two vital dams in Nazi Germany. (History). [via]
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The Fall of Berlin 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0142002801 (0-14-200280-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Berlin 1945'Book summary:Military history, even at its best, can be a cold art. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that wars involve individuals, each with their own hopes, fears and desires. Berlin: the Downfall, 1945, is Antony Beevor's account of the bloody Götterdämmerung that brought the Second World War in Europe to an end, and in which he has fused the large and the small scale effects of war. Beevor paints the broad picture of Marshals Zhukov and Konev, competing for glory and Stalin's attention, as they race their armies towards Berlin. He gives the reader a gripping account of the brutal street-by-street fighting in the German capital and provides an unforgettable portrait of the last, insane days of Hitler and his entourage in the bunker.
His attention to emotional detail is what made his previous book Stalingrad such a magnificent work, combining a sweeping hisorical narrative with a remarkable sensitivity to human drama. Yet he also highlights the small details of ordinary people caught in the nightmare of history--the sick children evacuated at the last minute from a Potsdam hospital; the Soviet soldiers shaving themselves for the first time in weeks so that they would make appropriately presentable conquerors; and the Nazi Youth teenagers peddling their bikes in despairing, last-ditch attacks against the Red Army's tanks.
The story Beevor tells is an almost unremittingly terrible one--one of death, rape, hunger and human misery--but he tells it with both an epic sweep and an alertness to individuality. The result is a masterpiece of narrative history that is as powerful as Stalingrad. --Nick Rennison [via]
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The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146Bcby Adrian GoldsworthyISBN 0304366420 (0-304-36642-0)
Softcover, Cassell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146Bc'Book summary:Adrian Goldsworthy is one of the best young historians writing today. John Keegan[via]
The Fall of Carthage was the greatest conflict of the ancient world, and thanks to one of the finest historians of our time, this sweeping saga comes to life anew for modern audiences. The cast of endlessly fascinating characters includes the generals Hannibal and Scipio, as well as treacherous chieftains, beautiful princesses, scheming politicians, and tough professional warriors.More editions of The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146Bc:
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The Far Side of the Worldby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308626 (0-393-30862-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Side of the World'Book summary:The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity. [via]More editions of The Far Side of the World:
Fighterby Len DeightonISBN 0345298217 (0-345-29821-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britainby Len DeightonISBN 0061008028 (0-06-100802-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain'Book summary:Len Deighton shows how the human factor influenced every twist and turn of the close-fought Battle of Britain. He makes clear how machines played a vital role in the fight for Britain's survival. [via]
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Forever Peaceby Joe W. HaldemanISBN 0441005667 (0-441-00566-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever Peace'Book summary:Julian Class is a full-time professor and part-time combat veteran who spends a third of each month virtually wired to a robotic "soldierboy." The soldierboys, along with flyboys and other advanced constructs, allow the U.S. to wage a remotely controlled war against constant uprisings in the Third World. The conflicts are largely driven by the so-called First World countries' access to nanoforges--devices that can almost instantly manufacture any product imaginable, given the proper raw materials--and the Third World countries' lack of access to these devices. But even as Julian learns that the consensual reality shared by soldierboy operators can lead to universal peace, the nanoforges create a way for humanity to utterly destroy itself, and it will be a race against time to see which will happen first. Although Forever Peace bears a title similar to Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War, he says it's not a sequel. [via]
Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Modern Warfareby John B. AlexanderISBN 0312194161 (0-312-19416-1)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Future War : Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century Warfareby John B. Alexander, Tom ClancyISBN 0312267398 (0-312-26739-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192835823 (0-19-283582-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gallic War'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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Gates of Fireby Steven PressfieldISBN 055338368X (0-553-38368-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gates of Fire'Book summary:Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. From the start, there was no question but that the Spartans would perish. In Gates of Fire, however, Steven Pressfield makes their courageous defense--and eventual extinction--unbearably suspenseful.
In the tradition of Mary Renault, this historical novel unfolds in flashback. Xeo, the sole Spartan survivor of Thermopylae, has been captured by the Persians, and Xerxes himself presses his young captive to reveal how his tiny cohort kept more than 100,000 Persians at bay for a week. Xeo, however, begins at the beginning, when his childhood home in northern Greece was overrun and he escaped to Sparta. There he is drafted into the elite Spartan guard and rigorously schooled in the art of war--an education brutal enough to destroy half the students, but (oddly enough) not without humor: "The more miserable the conditions, the more convulsing the jokes became, or at least that's how it seems," Xeo recalls. His companions in arms are Alexandros, a gentle boy who turns out to be the most courageous of all, and Rooster, an angry, half-Messenian youth.
Pressfield's descriptions of war are breathtaking in their immediacy. They are also meticulously assembled out of physical detail and crisp, uncluttered metaphor:
The forerank of the enemy collapsed immediately as the first shock hit it; the body-length shields seemed to implode rearward, their anchoring spikes rooted slinging from the earth like tent pins in a gale. The forerank archers were literally bowled off their feet, their wall-like shields caving in upon them like fortress redoubts under the assault of the ram.... The valor of the individual Medes was beyond question, but their light hacking blades were harmless as toys; against the massed wall of Spartan armor, they might as well have been defending themselves with reeds or fennel stalks.
Alas, even this human barrier was bound to collapse, as we knew all along it would. "War is work, not mystery," Xeo laments. But Pressfield's epic seems to make the opposite argument: courage on this scale is not merely inspiring but ultimately mysterious. --Marianne Painter [via] 
Hammer's Slammersby David DrakeISBN 0441316026 (0-441-31602-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Hammeredby ELIZABETH BEARISBN 0553587501 (0-553-58750-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hammered'Book summary:Once Jenny Casey was somebodys daughter. Once she was somebodys enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control. [via]
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Hornblower and the Hotspurby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 052341790X (0-523-41790-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Hostageby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515142409 (0-515-14240-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hostage'Book summary:By Order of the President, the first novel in W.E.B. Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike.
Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now.
An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is warned, if she doesn't tell them where her brother is-a brother, as it turns out, who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around, and an awful lot of hands reaching out to grab it-and some of those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes.
Brimming with rich characters, strong action, and cutting-edge drama, this is Griffin writing at the height of his powers. [via]-
How Few Remainby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345406141 (0-345-40614-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Few Remain'Book summary:From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the Second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. Twenty years after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America. And so, in 1883, the fragile peace was shattered.
But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other, but the Apache, the outlaw, and even the redcoat. Along with France, England entered the fray on the side of the South, with blockades and invasions from Canada.
Out of this tragic struggle emerged figures great and small. The disgraced Abraham Lincoln crisscrossed the nation championing socialist ideals. Confederate cavalry leader Jeb Stuart sought to prevent wholesale slaughter in the desert Southwest, while cocky young Theodore Roosevelt and stodgy George Custer bickered over modern weapons--even as they drove the British back into western Canada.
Thanks to the efforts of journalists like Samuel Clemens, the nation witnessed the clash of human dreams and passions. Confederate genius Stonewall Jackson again soared to the heights of military expertise, while the North's McClellan proved sadly undeserving of his once shining reputation as the "young Napoleon." For in the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed . . . and so would history.
Once again, Harry Turtledove has created a thoroughly engrossing alternate history novel, a profoundly original epic of blood and honor, courage and sacrifice, set amidst the raw beauty of young America's frontier wilderness. [via] -
The Ionian Missionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308219 (0-393-30821-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ionian Mission'Book summary:Aubrey and Maturin return to the choppy Mediterranean waters where they first served together, enforcing the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon. Then the two companions are sent to the Greek Islands, where another series of maritime cliff-hangers awaits them. O'Brian performs his peculiar narrative magic as adeptly as ever, putting (as The Observer would have it) the "spark of character into the sawdust of time." [via]
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289124 (0-316-28912-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Midshipman Hornblower'Book summary:Horatio Hornblower was born in C.S. Forester's fertile imagination and became arguably more famous, certainly more personal, than Nelson, Cook and Drake combined. He fought in a dozen major campaigns during the Napoleonic wars, and it was in these pages that we first got a glimmer of just how much Bonaparte was hated, and why.
Forester's genius was not tidy, and so this story, which sets Hornblower on course at age 17, is Forester's sixth book about him, though it should have been the first. LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER, which follows it, carries the intrepid young man another step forward in his career. [via]
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Rosemary Border, Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0194230414 (0-19-423041-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Midshipman Hornblower'Book summary:'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself. [via]
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Out of Controlby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345486404 (0-345-48640-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Control'Book summary:Bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann knows how to push the limits of romantic suspense to new, breathtaking heights. Potent, gripping, and explosive, OUT OF CONTROL is a roller coaster ride of a novel as a single act of loyalty becomes a desperate struggle for survival. . . .
Savannah von Hopf has no choice. To save her uncles life, she goes in search of Ken WildCard Karmody, a guy she barely knew in college who is now a military operative. She must convince him to help her deliver a cache of ransom money into the hands of terrorists halfway around the world. What she doesnt expect is to end up in WildCards arms before she can even ask for his help.
WildCard has always had a soft spot for beautiful women. But when he discovers Savannahs hidden agenda, he is determined to end the affair. But Savannah is bound for Indonesia with or without his protection, and he cant just walk away. When her plan goes horribly wrong, they are trapped in the forsaken jungle of a hostile country, stalked by a lethal enemy. As time is running out, they scramble to escape, risking their lives to stop a nightmare from spinning even further out of control. . . . [via]More editions of Out of Control:
Over the Edgeby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345486412 (0-345-48641-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Punic Warsby Adrian GoldsworthyISBN 030435967X (0-304-35967-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Punic Wars'Book summary:An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thoroughly engrossing account of the greatest conflict of antiquity. It will grab the attention of military buffs and general readers alike. The struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage encompassed the First (264-241 B.C.) and Second (149-146 B.C.) Punic Wars; both sides suffered casualties exceeding that of any war fought before the modern era. Its outcome had far-reaching consequences for the Western world, too, as it led to the ascendancy of Rome. In grand narrative style, follow the fighting on land and sea; the terrible pitched battles; and such generals as Hannibal, Fabius Maximus, and Scipio Aemilianus, who finally drove Carthage into the ground. A Main Selection of the History Book Club.[via] 
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000by William H. McNeillISBN 0226561585 (0-226-56158-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Powerby Max BootISBN 046500721X (0-465-00721-X)
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Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtiusby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192831208 (0-19-283120-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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Sharpe's Eagleby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294309 (0-14-029430-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharpe's Eagle'Book summary:[via]After the cowardly incompetence of two officers besmirches their name, Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem the regiment by capturing the most valued prize in the French Armya golden Imperial Eagle, the standard touched by the hand of Napoleon himself.
Sharpe's Riflesby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294295 (0-14-029429-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sharpe's Swordby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294333 (0-14-029433-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharpe's Sword'Book summary:The bitter rivalry of Richard Sharpe and the ruthless French swordsman, Colonel Leroux are brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsula War. Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But, this time, his enemy is a single man - the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital to the British victory. So, Sharpe must enter a new world of political and military intrigue. And, in the unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is the beautiful Marquesa - a woman with her own secrets to conceal! [via]
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Sharpe's Tigerby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061012696 (0-06-101269-6)
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Sharpe's Trafalgarby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061098620 (0-06-109862-0)
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Sharpe's Triumphby Bernard CornwellISBN 0060951974 (0-06-095197-4)
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Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Parisby John KeeganISBN 0140235426 (0-14-023542-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Soldiers Liveby Glen CookISBN 0312890575 (0-312-89057-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soldiers Live'Book summary:When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers, " grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular Black Company novels. 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, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end...but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right.
For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter -- actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady -- hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field.
Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate -- setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond. [via]
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Team Yankeeby Harold CoyleISBN 0425110427 (0-425-11042-7)
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The Trueloveby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393310167 (0-393-31016-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truelove'Book summary:The fifteenth installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely claimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama.
A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon's intelligence service.
In a thrilling finale, Patrick O'Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals. [via] 
Under Fireby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515134376 (0-515-13437-6)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Fire'Book summary:Having wrapped up World War II with 1999's In Danger's Path, bestselling military author W.E.B. Griffin now deploys his Marines in Korea with Under Fire, the ninth volume in his Corps series. Back are familiar characters from Griffin's previous Corps books--daredevil pilot Pick Pickering, his Scotch-sipping father, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, Capt. Ken "Killer" McCoy, and Master Gunner Ernie Zimmerman--with historical figures including President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur making appearances as well. It's now 1950, and with Communist forces making their presence felt below the 38th Parallel, Griffin's plot centers on Gen. Pickering, now high up in the newly created CIA, and Ken McCoy as they work behind MacArthur's back to covertly pave the way for an invasion of North Korea.
Readers who crave nonstop battle action and excitement may find it hard to stick with Under Fire, as Griffin takes the time to detail the background leading up to one of America's least-remembered modern wars. Griffin writes for the true armed forces aficionado, filling his prose with realistic descriptions of procedure, gear, and materials, an alphabet's worth of acronyms, and an ex- soldier's ear for military dialogue. Look for more sharp, authentic writing in this series' next installment. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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The Unsung Heroby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345463390 (0-345-46339-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unsung Hero'Book summary:After a near-fatal head injury, navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the navy dismisses the danger as injury-induced imaginings. In a desperate, last-ditch effort to prevent disaster, Tom creates his own makeshift counterterrorist team, assembling his most loyal officers, two elderly war veterans, a couple of misfit teenagers, and Dr. Kelly Ashton-the sweet "girl next door" who has grown into a remarkable woman. The town's infamous bad boy, Tom has always longed for Kelly. Now he has one final chance for happiness, one last chance to win her heart, and one desperate chance to save the day . . . [via]
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The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greeceby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0520219112 (0-520-21911-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece'Book summary:The origins of Western warfare lie in classical Greece, on the battlefields of Marathon and Delion, and in the strange, terrible head-on collision of Thebans and Spartans at Koroneia. Instead of the ambush, skirmish, or single combat between heroes, the Greeks of the classical age devised a ferocious, brutal, brief, and very destructive form of combat that used armed men of all ages. With this technique, they invented the central act of Western warfare--the decisive infantry battle.
In this bold and original study, Victor Davis Hanson presents a new interpretation of Greek warfare and what took place on the battlefield. He argues that the same concept that shaped democracy--an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute--also spawned the horrific nature of hoplite phalanx battles, and that Western culture may have learned the wrong lessons from them.
The Western Way of War draws from an extraordinary range of sources--Greek poetry, drama, and vase painting, as well as historical records--to fashion the first dramatic narrative of the actual mechanics of classical Greek warfare. Approaching his subject from the vantage point of the infantryman, Hanson explores everything from the brutal spear-thrusting and shield-pushing in the phalanx, and the difficulty of fighting in bronze armor, to the mass panic and hysteria. He describes the physical condition and age of the men and their commanders, their weapons, their capabilities, their spirit and morale, and their wounds; and covers the social and political aspects of the soldier's experience, revealing how profoundly the simple, brief, and brutal misery of infantry battle defined a man's entire relationship with his family, his community, and his country.
Hanson's compelling account of what happened on the killing fields of the ancient Greeks raises new issues and questions old assumptions about the raison d'être for war. [via]More editions of The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece:
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The Wine-Dark Seaby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393312445 (0-393-31244-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wine Dark Sea'Book summary:The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States.
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination.
Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawaby Sledge, Eugene B., Jr., Paul FussellISBN 0195067142 (0-19-506714-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa'Book summary:In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion.
Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience.
Sledge enlisted out of patriotism, idealism, and youthful courage, but once he landed on the beach at Peleliu, it was purely a struggle for survival. Based on the notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his New Testament, he simply and directly recalls those long months, mincing no words and sparing no pain. The reality of battle meant unbearable heat, deafening gunfire, unimaginable brutality and cruelty, the stench of death, and, above all, constant fear. Sledge still has nightmares about "the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa." But, as he also tellingly reveals, the bonds of friendship formed then will never be severed.
Sledge's honesty and compassion for the other marines, even complete strangers, sets him apart as a memoirist of war. Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a moving chronicle of action and courage. [via]More editions of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa:
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A World At Arms: A Global History Of World War IIby Gerhard L. WeinbergISBN 0521618266 (0-521-61826-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World At Arms: A Global History Of World War II'Book summary:This comprehensive examination of the Second World War looks at grand strategy and diplomacy, as opposed to the gritty details of the combat experience. A World at Arms is written in a matter-of-fact tone, so don't expect a poetic narrative. Despite this, no other historian has presented such a sweeping overview. Weinberg performs the important task of reminding his readers in the West that much of the fighting--and perhaps the most decisive parts--was done in the East, between the Germans and the Russians. American readers, for their part, may appreciate Weinberg's treatment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is portrayed as a courageous wartime leader. This book is an essential part of any library on the Second World War. [via]
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