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Under the persimmon tree
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Suzanne Fisher Staples |
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at… |
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Last Night Another Soldier
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Andy McNab |
A new Quick Read title from the author of Bravo Two ZeroAfghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Sixteen men from their Battalion have a… |
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Immediate Response
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Mark Hammond |
2006 in Helmand saw British forces engaged in the most ferocious fighting since the Korean War. For much of the time they were hanging on by their fingertips, holed up in remote platoon houses, outnu… |
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An unexpected match
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Dana Corbit |
What does hardworking single father Matthew Warren want in a wife? Responsibility, practicality and a good rapport with his child. So why isn't he interested in the responsible, practical daughter of… |
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The Taliban Shuffle
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Kim Barker |
In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to … |
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Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse
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Suraya Sadeed |
From her first humanitarian visit to Afghanistan in 1994, Suraya Sadeed has been personally delivering relief and hope to Afghan orphans and refugees, to women and girls in inhuman situations deemed … |
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Something like normal
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Trish Doller |
When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into H… |
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War
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Sebastian Junger |
Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in t… |
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The Maverick Experiment
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Drew Berquist |
"In wartime, some operation have to conduction outside the normal lines of authority. Nowhere is this more true than in modern AFghanistan, the setting for this riverting military thriller... Drawn f… |
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Outlaw platoon
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Sean Parnell |
A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a vivid, action-packed, and highly emotional true story o… |
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The Iraq wars and America's military revolution
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Keith L. Shimko |
"Many saw the United States' decisive victory in Desert Storm (1991) as not only vindication of American defense policy since Vietnam but also confirmation of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). … |
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Semper fido
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C. Alexander London |
Gus Dempsey is a newly trained dog handler in the United States Marine Corps, and when he is deployed to Afghanistan he is paired with Loki, a bomb-sniffing black Labrador with a mischievous streak. |
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My Share of the Task
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Stanley A. McChrystal |
General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. |
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The warriors
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Thomas W. Young |
"Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson has seen plenty of action lately, so he's happy with his new assignment as safety officer at a Kyrgyzstan air base. It's a pretty laidback way to spend the next yea… |
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A prior engagement
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Karina Bliss |
"After two years as a POW presumed dead, SAS soldier Lee Davis is finally going home. Back to his family, friends and ... fiance e? He doesn't have a fiance e ... the night before his last deployment… |
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Apache
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Macy, Ed (Warrant Officer) |
Designed in the mid 1980s to take on the Soviets, the Apache is the most sophisticated fighting helicopter the world has ever known. Ed Macy's account of the incredibly hard Apache selection process … |
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The Warriors (A Parson and Gold Novel)
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Tom Young |
..Cracking good read!!..not only fast paced and realistic..without "unkillable" heroes..but historical informative regarding the political atmosphere at the time.I learnt a great deal about the war a… |
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The Cuban affair
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Nelson De Mille |
"From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille's blistering new novel features an exciting new character--US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" M… |
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Taliban narratives
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Thomas H. Johnson |
"Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan Government and their allies? This book, based on ye… |
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One hundred victories
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Robinson, Linda |
"Based on unique inside access, the author of the New York Times bestseller Masters of Chaos explains how special operations forces are reshaping the U.S. military In One Hundred Victories, acclaimed… |
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