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The 10,000 Day War: Vietnamby Michael MacLearISBN 0312790945 (0-312-79094-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The 9/11 Reportby Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton, Nat'L Commission on Terrorist Attacks, New York Times StaffISBN 0312935544 (0-312-93554-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 9/11 Report'Book summary:With Reporting and Analysis by the New York Times
What happened on 9/11 and how? Have we learned any lessons? Are we safer now?The questions every American wants answered.
Since September 11, 2001, Americans have wondered how the tragic events of that day could have occurred. This is the complete report of the circumstances surrounding the attacts, including:
*Al Qaeda and the organization of the 9/11 attack
*Intelligence collection, analysis, and management
*International counterterrorism policy*The inner workings of terrorist financing
*The security of American borders
*Law enforcement inside the U.S.
*Commercial aviation and transportation safety* Personal interviews with Presidents Clinton and Bush on their roles[via]
Supplemented with analysis and reporting by The New York Times, this edition of The 9/11 Report also makes recommendations as to how to prevent terrorist attacks in the future.More editions of The 9/11 Report:
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An Acceptable Timeby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312368585 (0-312-36858-5)
Softcover, Square Fish
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Acceptable Time'Book summary:It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.[via]
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.More editions of An Acceptable Time:
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indiesby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289418 (0-316-28941-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies'Book summary:Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small contingent of naval vessels to preserve the peace and eliminate piracy. With intrepid daring and brilliant strategies, Hornblower wins his victories. With this series of adventures, Volume 11, Hornblower's professional life as a British naval officer reaches its climax, not in a battle against men, but against nature. Here the inner Hornblower shows his colors. [via]
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Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made Englandby Juliet BarkerISBN 0316015040 (0-316-01504-0)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England'Book summary:From a master historian comes an astonishing chronicle of life in medieval Europe and the battle that altered the course of an empire.Although almost six centuries old, the Battle of Agincourt still captivates the imaginations of men and women on both sides of the Atlantic. It has been immortalized in high culture (Shakespeare's Henry V) and low (the New York Post prints Henry's battle cry on its editorial page each Memorial Day).It is the classic underdog story in the history of warfare, and generations have wondered how the English-outnumbered by the French six to one-could have succeeded so bravely and brilliantly. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, eminent scholar Juliet Barker casts aside the legend and shows us that the truth behind Agincourt is just as exciting, just as fascinating, and far more significant. She paints a gripping narrative of the October 1415 clash between outnumbered English archers and heavily armored French knights.But she also takes us beyond the battlefield into palaces and common cottages to bring into vivid focus an entire medieval world in flux. Populated with chivalrous heroes, dastardly spies, and a ferocious and bold king, AGINCOURT is as earthshaking as its subject-and will confirm Juliet Barker's status as both a historian and a storyteller of the first rank. [via]
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Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battleby Juliet R.V. BarkerISBN 0316726486 (0-316-72648-6)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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All Things Wise And Wonderfulby James HerriotISBN 0312335288 (0-312-33528-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Things Wise And Wonderful'Book summary:Readers adored his tales as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful-- now James Herriot treats us to another delightful volume of memoirs rich with his own brand of humor and wisdom.[via]
In the midst of World War Two, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing characters-- animal and human alike-- Herriot enthralls us once again with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn.More editions of All Things Wise And Wonderful:
Another World: A Novelby Pat BarkerISBN 0312203977 (0-312-20397-7)
Softcover, Picador
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The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968by William Raymond ManchesterISBN 0316544906 (0-316-54490-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at Warby William ManchesterISBN 0316529400 (0-316-52940-0)
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Blood Songby Terry C. JohnstonISBN 0312929218 (0-312-92921-8)
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Chariots of the Damnedby Mike Ryan, Mike McKinneyISBN 0312989806 (0-312-98980-6)
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Children of the Mindby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312853955 (0-312-85395-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of the Mind'Book summary:Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender's life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text's analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender's wife literally bores him to death? --Brooks Peck [via]
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Commodore Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289388 (0-316-28938-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commodore Hornblower'Book summary:These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
-- The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures have been tremendously successful -- praised by critics, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and winner of the Emmy Award for best miniseries.
-- Two new movies will be premiering in the spring on A&E.
-- Readers and booksellers who admire Patrick O'Brian's novels delight in discovering this "new" series of nautical adventure stories. [via] -
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856by Trevor RoyleISBN 0312230796 (0-312-23079-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856'Book summary:The mid-19th-century Crimean War, pitting England, France, and less powerful allies against Russia, was one of the first major international wars in history. In the execution, it was none too inspiring. As Trevor Royle writes in his sweeping study of the conflict, "it encompassed maladministration on a grand scale and human suffering, if not without parallel then at least minutely recorded by the watching war correspondents"--the war being the first as well to have been widely reported. It was, a contemporary British journal put it, a war of "lions led by donkeys," young men commanded by doddering veterans of the Napoleonic campaigns who served in an unlikely alliance. The English officers, Royle writes, could never shake the habit of calling their French comrades "the enemy," and never quite trusted them, either.
The result was carnage: not only the loss of a good portion of the Light Brigade in the most famous--but not the most inept--incident of the war, but also the destruction of whole regiments left to blunder about in the fog and smoke, thanks to their commanders' inadequate intelligence-gathering efforts. Not much changed at war's end. In the eventual peace treaty, France and England and Russia kept their territories more or less intact, and the struggle for power between Russia and the neighboring Ottoman Empire, in whose defense France and England had ostensibly gone to war, stretched out for another generation. It ended with a Russian victory that allowed Russia to assume control of Turkish holdings in the Balkans, which, Royle notes, lay the seeds for still another international conflict, World War I.
Royle does a fine job of negotiating through the many complexities, diplomatic and military, of the Crimean War. His descriptions of battlefield tactics (or the lack thereof) are among the best in the literature. More comprehensive than Robert B. Edgerton's Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War, Royle's Crimea is likely to stand as an enduring work on this strange, wasteful conflict. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950by James BacqueISBN 0316640700 (0-316-64070-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company
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Crispin's Day: The Glory of Agincourtby Rosemary Hawley JarmanISBN 0316457833 (0-316-45783-3)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Cry Wolfby Wilbur A. SmithISBN 0312982585 (0-312-98258-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dark Starby Alan FurstISBN 0312928459 (0-312-92845-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Star'Book summary:As deputy director of one of the Red Orchestra spy networks in Paris, Andre Szara recruits an agent from Berlin who can supply information on German aircraft production and finds himself caught in a crisis of conscience. Reprint. [via]
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Defying Hitler: A Memoirby Sebastian Haffner, Oliver PretzelISBN 0312421133 (0-312-42113-3)
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Double Visionby Pat BarkerISBN 0312424108 (0-312-42410-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Elvenbaneby Andre Norton, Mercedes LackeyISBN 0312851065 (0-312-85106-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elvenbane'Book summary:The exhilirating story of the Elvenbane unfurls as an adventurous tale destined for bestseller status. It begins with the cruel, all-powerful elvenlords, whose magic created wondrous cities, but whose great pride drove them to take pleasure in the pain and humiliation of their human and halfblood slaves. But on the horizon is the One--the mythic leader of future revolt. [via]
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Elvenbloodby Andre Norton, Mercedes LackeyISBN 0312855486 (0-312-85548-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisisby Graham T. Allison, Philip ZelikowISBN 0321013492 (0-321-01349-2)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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Falling Through the Earth: A Memoirby Danielle TrussoniISBN 0312426569 (0-312-42656-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Fire Watchby Connie WillisISBN 0312941625 (0-312-94162-5)
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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflictby Peter Ackerman, Jack DuvallISBN 0312240503 (0-312-24050-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict'Book summary:"In a contest of violence against violence," the philosopher Hannah Arendt observed, "the superiority of the government has always been absolute." When confronted with nonviolent resistance on the part of the downtrodden, however, governments have often crumbled--witness the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime and the ousting of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia.
The worldwide spread of democracy in the 20th century, documentary writers Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall maintain, "would not have come to pass without the power of ordinary people who defied oppressive rulers not by force of arms, but by nonviolent action." By way of example, they cite the collapse of the Argentine military regime following peaceful protests by the mothers of men and women who had been murdered by the secret police; the eventual undermining of the Polish Communist regime by the nonviolent Solidarity labor movement; the refusal of the Danish people to comply with the laws of their Nazi occupiers during World War II; and the exemplary work done in India (and, earlier, South Africa) by Mohandas Gandhi, who took pains to emphasize that nonviolence does not imply passivity.
Ackerman and DuVall's book, the companion volume to a PBS television series, will be of much interest to political activists of all stripes, as well as to students of contemporary history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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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)
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Gallipoliby Jack BennettISBN 0312315724 (0-312-31572-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Gettysburgby Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. HanserISBN 0312309368 (0-312-30936-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gettysburg'Book summary:The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great "what if" of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable entry in the pantheon of Civil War literature and as a vivid novel of the realities of war.[via]
The year is 1863, and General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia are poised to attack the North and claim the victory that could end the brutal conflict. Launching his men into a vast sweeping operation, General Lee, acting as he did at Chancellorsville, Second Manassas, and Antietam, displays the audacity of old. He knows he has but one more good chance to gain ultimate victory. Now Lee's lieutenants and the men in the ranks, imbued with this renewed spirit of the offensive, embark on the Gettysburg Campaign that many dream "should have been"... 
The Good Germanby Joseph KanonISBN 0312421265 (0-312-42126-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good German'Book summary:This compelling thriller is both a touching love story and a masterful portrayal of the struggle for geopolitical control of postwar Germany. Network correspondent Jake Geismar, who covered Berlin before the war, has returned to the devastated city, ostensibly to cover the Potsdam Conference but actually to find the woman he loves. Miraculously, Lena Brandt, Jake's wartime mistress, has survived. However, her mathematician husband is missing, and both the American and Russian intelligence services are hunting him. When the bullet-ridden body of an American soldier washes up on the shores of Potsdam in front of Jake's eyes just as Truman, Churchill, and Stalin convene the first postwar conference, Jake is plunged into a maelstrom of intrigue, corruption, and betrayal.
A brilliantly evoked portrait of a unique moment in history (the end of one war and the beginning of another), The Good German amply fulfills the promise shown by Joseph Kanon in his two earlier novels, Los Alamos and The Prodigal Spy. --Jane Adams [via]
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Hall of the Mountain Kingby Judith TarrISBN 0312942109 (0-312-94210-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hall of the Mountain King'Book summary:[via]The bestselling author of Los Alamos and Alibi returns to 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war, has returned to write about the Allied triumph while pursuing a more personal quest: his search for Lena, the married woman he left behind. When an American soldier's body is found in the Russian zone during the Potsdam Conference, Jake stumbles on the lead to a murder mystery. The Good German is a story of espionage and love, an extraordinary re-creation of a city devastated by war, and a thriller that asks the most profound ethical questions in its exploration of the nature of justice, and what we mean by good and evil in times of peace and of war.More editions of Hall of the Mountain King:
Hornblower and the Hotspurby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316290467 (0-316-29046-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hornblower and the Hotspur'Book summary:April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. [via]
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The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaedaby Greg Miller, Chris MackeyISBN 0316871125 (0-316-87112-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Kushiel's Dart : A Novel of Passion, Magic, and Betrayalby Jacqueline CareyISBN 0312872380 (0-312-87238-0)
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Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy... and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, Terre d'Ange, she has no choice.
Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia and accompanied only by a disdainful young warrior-priest, Phédre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey to return to her people and deliver a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond.
Phédre nó Delaunay is the woman who holds the keys to her realm's deadly secrets, and whose courage will decide the very future of her world.
Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age and the birth of a new. It is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. A world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, deposed rulers and a besieged Queen, a warrior-priest, the Prince of Travelers, barbarian warlords, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess... all seen through the unflinching eyes of an unforgettable heroine.More editions of Kushiel's Dart : A Novel of Passion, Magic, and Betrayal:
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Lieutenant Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316290637 (0-316-29063-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lieutenant Hornblower'Book summary:The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young senorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. [via]
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, William C. CarrollISBN 0312144547 (0-312-14454-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speakby Jean Hatzfeld, Linda CoverdaleISBN 0312425031 (0-312-42503-1)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak'Book summary:During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that "everyone should read . . . [because making] the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult."[via]More editions of Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak:
Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupationby Robert GildeaISBN 0312423594 (0-312-42359-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Michael Collins: A Biographyby Tim Pat CooganISBN 0312295111 (0-312-29511-1)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michael Collins: A Biography'Book summary:When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.[via]More editions of Michael Collins: A Biography:
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0312422156 (0-312-42215-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlesex'Book summary:"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal." So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. [via]
A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0312546807 (0-312-54680-7)
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The Mouse That Roaredby Leonard Patrick O'Connor WibberleyISBN 0316938726 (0-316-93872-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Spy Story That Changed the Course of the Vietnam Warby Jeff SteinISBN 0312929196 (0-312-92919-6)
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On Revolutionby Hannah ArendtISBN 0313234930 (0-313-23493-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Revolution'Book summary:Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations. [via]
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The Punic Warsby Brian CavenISBN 0312655800 (0-312-65580-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Put Out More Flagsby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316916056 (0-316-91605-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Put Out More Flags'Book summary:Put Out More Flags is Waugh's superb send-up of "smart" England, the bohemian crowd, as World War II approaches. Making a return appearance, Basil Seal this time insinuates himself into an odd but profitable role in the country's mobilization. [via]
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Real War, 1914-1918by B. H. Liddell-HartISBN 0316525057 (0-316-52505-7)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Real War, 1914-1918'Book summary:Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In The Real War, the author has fused research and creativity with brevity and precision. Thus, in one volume the war is transformed into literature - an understandable, work of military history. Recommended in Laura Berquist U.S. History Geography and American LiteratureAuthor: Captain B. H. Liddell HartFormat: 508 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 30, 1963) ISBN: 978-0316525053 [via]
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Rising '44: The Battle for Warsawby Norman DaviesISBN 0330488635 (0-330-48863-5)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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Scoopby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926108 (0-316-92610-8)
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The Secret War for the Falklands: The SAS, MI6, and the War Whitehall Nearly Lostby Nigel WestISBN 0316882267 (0-316-88226-7)
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Shadow of the Hegemonby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312876513 (0-312-87651-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow of the Hegemon'Book summary:Orson Scott Card finally explores what happened on earth after the war with the Buggers in the sixth book of his Ender series, Shadow of the Hegemon. This novel is the continuation of the story of Bean, which began with Ender's Shadow, a parallel novel to Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game.
While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven't known for nearly a decade, someone's worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender's brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon.
In Shadow of the Hegemon, Card can't help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--Shadow of the Hegemon does a wonderful job of continuing Bean's tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow. --Kathie Huddleston [via]
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Ship of the Lineby C. S. ForesterISBN 0316289361 (0-316-28936-1)
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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniperby Don Davis, Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. DavisISBN 0312336861 (0-312-33686-1)
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Shooter: The Autobiography Of The Top-Ranked Marine Sniperby Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. DavisISBN 0312336853 (0-312-33685-3)
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76by Michel Foucault, Francois Ewald, Arnold I. Davidson, Alessandro Fontana, David MaceyISBN 0312422660 (0-312-42266-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year. These lectures do not reduplicate his published books, although they do have themes in common. The lectures show Foucault ranging freely and conversationally over the implications of his research.
In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war. War was now seen as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines a genealogy of power/knowledge that was to become a primary concern in his final years.More editions of Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76:
Study War No Moreby Joe W. HaldemanISBN 0312773153 (0-312-77315-3)
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The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusadesby Piers Paul ReadISBN 0312266588 (0-312-26658-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades'Book summary:The Knights Templar remain the most glamorous, but also the most mysterious, of all religious organizations. Romanticized by Walter Scott in his novel Ivanhoe and by Wagner in his opera Parsifal, the Templars have been both celebrated as ascetic martyrs, dying for the greater good of Christianity, and condemned as deviant heretics, thieves, and sodomites who sold the Holy Land out to the Muslim Infidels. In his carefully researched study The Templars, the acclaimed novelist Piers Paul Read investigates the truth behind the myth. Placing his account of the rise of the Templars within a wider historical and political context, Read argues that "The Templars were a multinational force engaged in the defence of the Christian concept of a world order: and their demise marks the point when the pursuit of the common good within Christendom became subordinate to the interests of the nation state."
This approach takes Read back into the Dark Ages and the context for the first Christian Crusade, which culminated in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. In an attempt to hold on to Jerusalem and one of the holiest sites in Christendom, the Temple of Solomon, the Templars were formed as a strict religious-military order, committed to poverty, chastity, and the protection of pilgrims en route to the Holy Land. Read charts their rise to political and financial power and influence throughout Europe and the Holy Land, and their bloody (and ultimately unsuccessful) conflict with the forces of Islam over the subsequent two centuries. Read's account is painstakingly recounted, but often lacks the verve and pace demanded by the colorful cast of characters, including Saladin and Richard the Lionheart. The best sections of the book deal with the shockingly cynical destruction of the Order by Pope Clement V and King Philip the Fair in 1312, preceded by the torture and death of hundreds of Templars who had already fought bravely for the cross in the Holy Land. The Templars are fascinating, but in his attempt to avoid the more colorful and conspiratorial stories associated with the Order, Read's book may strike some as a little turgid, despite its admirable historical detail. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950by Alfred-Maurice De ZayasISBN 0312121598 (0-312-12159-8)
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men And Warby Mitch Weiss, Michael SallahISBN 0316159972 (0-316-15997-2)
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Time Out of Jointby Philip K. DickISBN 0312944276 (0-312-94427-6)
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To Reign in Hellby Steven Brust, Roger ZelaznyISBN 0312870493 (0-312-87049-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Reign in Hell'Book summary:The time is the Beginning. The place is Heaven. The story is the Revolt of the Angelsa war of magic, corruption and intrigue that could destroy the universe.To Reign in Hell was Stephen Brust's second novel, and it's a thrilling retelling of the revolt of the angels, through the lens of epic fantasy.[via]More editions of To Reign in Hell:
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battleby Roy AdkinsISBN 0316725110 (0-316-72511-0)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, D. R. EllowayISBN 0333089537 (0-333-08953-7)
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The Two O'Clock War : The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict and the Airlift That Saved Israelby Walter J. BoyneISBN 0312273037 (0-312-27303-7)
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The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsiderationby Mark RosemanISBN 0312422342 (0-312-42234-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration'Book summary:On January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlins Lake Wannsee, a conference of Nazi officers produced a paper known as the Wannsee Protocol, which laid the groundwork for a final solution to the Jewish Question. This Protocol has always mystified us. How should we understand this calm, business-like discussion of holocaust? And why was the meeting necessary? Hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been shot by squads in Russia or gassed in the camp at Chelmno. Mark Roseman seeks to unravel this double mystery and explain how it was that on a snowy day, fifteen well-educated young men met to talk murder.[via]More editions of The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration:
The War Between the Generalsby IrvingISBN 031292920X (0-312-92920-X)
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The War of the Austrian Successionby Reed BrowningISBN 0312125615 (0-312-12561-5)
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Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Romeby John Gibson WarryISBN 0312856148 (0-312-85614-8)
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Why Nations Go To Warby John G. StoessingerISBN 0312185162 (0-312-18516-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Nations Go To War'Book summary:Meant to transmit an understanding of warfare from World War I to the present, WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR, a unique book and a product of reflection by the author, is built around ten case studies culminating in the two new wars that ushered in the twenty-first century, Afghanistan and Iraq. The distinguishing feature of the text remains the author's emphasis on the pivotal role of the personalities of leaders who take their nations or their following across the threshold into war. [via]
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The Winter Kingby Bernard CornwellISBN 0312156960 (0-312-15696-0)
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With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War Iby Jamie H. CockfieldISBN 0312220820 (0-312-22082-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I'Book summary:In 1916, in an exchange of human flesh for war material, the Russian government sent to France two brigades to fight on the side of their French allies. By the end of World War I, these two brigades had experienced their own form of the Russian Revolution, had been isolated at a southern training post in a discipline move by the French government, had battled against each other in what was one of the first confrontations of the Russian Civil War, and had emerged from the conflict as a single force, the Russian Legion of Honor, which would remain loyal to France until the end of the war. The remarkable story of these Russian soldiers has been overlooked by historians until now. Jamie Cockfield here explores the journey and transformation of these men, and in so doing, he examines the impact of the revolution on the Russians who were caught in the middle of wartime alliances and nationalist ardor.[via]More editions of With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I:
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Wizard's First Ruleby Terry GoodkindISBN 0312857055 (0-312-85705-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard's First Rule'Book summary:The masterpiece that started The New York Times bestselling epic Sword of Truth[via]
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.
In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them--for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say.
In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword--to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.
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The Yom Kippur War: And the Airlift Strike That Saved Israelby Walter BoyneISBN 0312320426 (0-312-32042-6)
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