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The spy who tried to stop a war The spy who tried to stop a war 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… OL11535413W
A Pretext for War A Pretext for War 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 … OL117554W
Sniper one Sniper one Dan Mills We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small oval-sh… OL11952733W
Fogs of war and peace Fogs of war and peace 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… OL11958208W
Joker one Joker one Donovan Campbell After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give… OL11963208W
Ghosts of war Ghosts of war 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… OL12037574W
Winter soldier, Iraq and Afghanistan Winter soldier, Iraq and Afghanistan Iraq Veterans Against the War. In the spring of 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hearings, Iraq Veterans Against the War gathered outside Washington, D.C., and testified to atrocities they personally committed or w… OL12049528W
Babylon by bus Babylon by bus Ray LeMoine This all-access, inside-out view of what the American occupation of Iraq really looks like on the ground is the story of two young Americans who went to Baghdad without any real plan and discovered t… OL12084933W
Hard Corps Hard Corps Marco Martinez At the age of seventeen, Marco Martinez was a thug--a gun-toting, car-stealing gang member. At the age of twenty-two, he was a hero--the recipient of the Navy Cross, the second-highest honor a U.S. M… OL12292445W
Los mongoles en Bagdad Los mongoles en Bagdad José Luis Sampedro Ilustraciones de Sequeiros. OL1322650W
The defense of Jisr al-Doreaa The defense of Jisr al-Doreaa Michael L. Burgoyne Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003 the U.S. military found itself in a battle with a lethal and adaptive insurgency, where the divisions between enemy and ally were ambiguous at best, and working… OL13609387W
American soldiers in Iraq American soldiers in Iraq Morten G. Ender "American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique sociological snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition"--Provided by publ… OL13646767W
Wiser in battle Wiser in battle Ricardo S. Sanchez WISER IN BATTLE is the first book about the war in Iraq by an on-site commander. Former Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez served as Commander of Coalition Ground Forces from June 2003 to June 2004. … OL13652852W
Red flags Red flags 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 … OL13775446W
The fourth star The fourth star Greg Jaffe They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They beca… OL13776942W
Black hearts Black hearts Jim Frederick This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment--a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called … OL13856590W
Diamondhead Diamondhead 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. OL14924762W
The strongest tribe The strongest tribe Francis J. West From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around--and the choice now facing America During the fierce… OL15101458W
The end of Iraq The end of Iraq Peter Galbraith The invasion of Iraq by American, British and other coalition forces has indeed transformed the Middle East, but not as the Bush and Blair administrations had imagined. It is Iran, not Western-style … OL15138752W
Paying the human costs of war Paying the human costs of war Christopher Gelpi The book finds that the most important consideration for the public is the expectation of success. If the public believes that a mission will succeed, the public will support it even if the costs are… OL15517566W
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