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Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
Sean Naylor · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Since the attacks of September 11, one organization has been at the forefront of America's military response. Its efforts turned the tide against al-Qaida in Iraq, killed Bin Laden and Zarqawi, rescued Captain Phillips and captured Saddam Hussein. Its commander can direct cruise missile... |
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The Blue & Gray Almanac: The Civil War in Facts & Figures, Recipes & Slang
Albert Nofi · Casemate
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know...* During the final days of the war, some Richmond citizens would throw "Starvation Parties," at which elegantly attired guests would gather at soirees where... |
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Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
Walter Kempowski · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before.Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's... |
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Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival
Clara Kramer · Ecco
Pages: 339
Format: Paperback
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"A superlative memoir of survival ... .Few wartime memoirs convey with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide." - Daily Telegraph (London) "One Girl's Story of Survival," Clara's War is based on Clara Kramer's diary of her years spent hiding... |
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Catherine Hewitt · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful... |
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The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty States
Samuel Etinde Crompton · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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How did colonies, territories, and land purchases shape the United States of America? What differences - and similarities - are there between the states? What does each state bring to the union? From sea to shining sea, The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates... |
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the United... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C White · Random House
Pages: 826
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals - and most misunderstood presidents In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American... |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
Dave Barry · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 229
Format: Print book
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A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry... |
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The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield
KRIS PARONTO · Center Street
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Former Army Ranger Kris Paronto, a survivor of the 2012 Benghazi siege that was subject of the book and movie 13 Hours, provides powerful, motivational tools for surviving and thriving to bring readers discipline, motivation, success, and peace to life.... |
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Rust: The Longest War
Jonathan Waldman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year It has been called "the great destroyer" and "the evil." The Pentagon refers to it as "the pervasive menace." It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house... |
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