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Generation Kill

Evan Wright
Format: Paperback

Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog.Read about the Penguin Group (USA) partnership with HBO in support of the Generation Kill Troop Drive here.They were called a generation without heroes.Then they were called upon to be heroes.</
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Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces

Tom Clancy - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

In his first two Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with armor and infantry General Fred Franks, Jr., and Air Force General Chuck Horner to provide masterful blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain old-fashioned storytelling....
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

Anthony Swofford - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From The New Yorker
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Spare Parts

Buzz Williams
Format: Paperback

A powerful and harrowing look into the world of reservists - as seen through one man's transformation from weekend warrior to combat Marine In 1990 Buzz Williams walked into a Marine recruiting office to follow in the footsteps of the deceased older brother he grew up
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The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath

John Keegan
Format: Paperback

The 2003 Iraq war remains among the most mysterious armed conflicts of modernity. In The Iraq War, John Keegan offers a sharp and lucid appraisal of the military campaign, explaining just how the coalition forces defeated an Iraqi army twice its size and addressing s
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq

Colby Buzzell - Putnam Adult; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A raw, edgy, yet intimate new voice from the front lines in Iraq-the most authentic we have had yet from the war, heralding this generations Catch-22. Like many of his generation, Colby Buzzell was jumping from one dead-end job to another, a paycheck away from moving back home. He spent...
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Helen Thorpe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal...
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The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

Jake Tapper - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic. At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles...
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