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The spy who tried to stop a war
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Marcia Mitchell |
"Tells the story of a young British secret service officer, Katharine Gun, and her courageous decision to expose an illegal US-UK operation -- a covert plot to influence the UN vote that would have a… |
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A Pretext for War
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James Bamford |
The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date--a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America's intelligence … |
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Fogs of war and peace
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Robert L. Dilworth |
This work focuses on continual global conflict and how American views are being obstructed through a concept referred to as "fogs of war" that distort reality. The authors discuss the root of these p… |
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Ghosts of war
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Ryan Smithson |
Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tou… |
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Los mongoles en Bagdad
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José Luis Sampedro |
Ilustraciones de Sequeiros. |
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Shooting war
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Anthony Lappé |
Catapulted into media stardom when he inadvertently captures a terrorist bombing on film and posts it online, anti-corporate blogger Jimmy Burns sets off for Iraq to become a truth-telling war corres… |
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Red flags
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Amer Faris |
"This memoir of an Iraqi soldier writing under a pseudonym uses "red flags" as a metaphor for military targets during his country's invasion by the United States in 2003. He recounts his involvement … |
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I'm still standing
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Shoshana Johnson |
Specialist Shoshana Johnson, a member of the 507th Maintenance Company, was captured during an ambush in the early days of the Iraq war and held prisoner until she and her fellow Soldiers were rescue… |
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Diamondhead
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Patrick Robinson |
From the author of the critically acclaimed Admiral Morgan series comes a topical, provocative, military thriller that marks the start of a brand-new series starring Navy SEAL Mack Bedford. |
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In the Name of Honor
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Richard North Patterson |
"An Iraq veteran shoots his commanding officer, who was married to a family friend." (From NY Times.) |
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Out of Iraq
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William R. Polk,George McGovern,George S. McGovern |
"The authors present a detailed blueprint for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq that is bound to stir a national debate. Former senator George McGovern and William R. Polk, a leading authority on the Middle … |
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Known and Unknown
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Donald Rumsfeld |
Donald Rumsfeld tells the story of his career serving as a Congressman, and working for several Presidents in different capacities including two stints as Secretary of Defense.
He describes Rumsf… |
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The heart of a soldier
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Kate Blaise,Dana White |
Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army--she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted i… |
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Crusade
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James Carroll |
Publisher's description: With the words "this Crusade, this war on terror," George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency. And just as promptly, James Carroll-Boston Globe columnist, son of a … |
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The foreigner's gift
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Fouad Ajami |
An analysis of the turmoil in the Middle East journeys behind the familiar facade of Iraq to argue that troubles in the Arab world can be linked to America's limited understanding of the region, thir… |
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Awakening victory
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Michael E. Silverman |
"[The book] tells the story of this ... campaign through the eyes of the commander of the 3rd Battalion, who was right in the thick of the fight. The book also provides a description of the Iraqi ins… |
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Goshka Macuga
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Goshka Macuga |
This new catalogue provides a comprehensive document of Goshka Macuga's Bloomberg Commission, The Nature of the Beast, exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery from April 2009 - April 2010. The catalogue… |
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War and moral dissonance
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Peter A. French |
"This collection of essays, inspired by the author's experience teaching ethics to Marine and Navy chaplains during the Iraq War, examines the moral and psychological dilemmas posed by war. The first… |
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Alice Bliss
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Laura Harrington |
When Alice Bliss learns that her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing j… |
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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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