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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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	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
Shoot an Iraqi	Wafaa Bilal	The creator of "Domestic Tension," an unsettling interactive performance piece that speaks to the horrors of life in a conflict zone, reveals his experiences growing up under Saddam Hussein's rule.	OL11955322W
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
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
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	José Luis Sampedro	Ilustraciones de Sequeiros.	OL1322650W
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	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
Mission, black list #1	Eric Maddox	Everyone has seen the footage: a heavily bearded Saddam Hussein blinking under the bright lights of infantry cameras, dazed to find himself in U.S. Army custody. Yet while the breaking news was broad…	OL13750837W
Nubs	Brian Dennis	Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major…	OL13764915W
Ugly war, pretty package	Deborah Lynn Jaramillo	Deborah L. Jaramillo investigates cable news' presentation of the Iraq War in relation to "high concept" filmmaking. High concept films can be reduced to single-sentence summaries and feature pre-sol…	OL13766669W
I'm still standing	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…	OL13783862W
Murder in Baker Company	Cilla McCain	Using court transcripts, personal interviews, and police records to retrace the key events of the case, this journey to uncover the truth about what happened to Richard Davis provides a disturbing, e…	OL13852624W
Out of Iraq	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 …	OL15148542W
Interventions	Noam Chomsky	At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible …	OL15170652W
The Good Soldiers	David Finkel	[From the jacket] What is the true story of [George W. Bush's Iraq] surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions that … Finkel grapples with in his remarkable report from the fr…	OL15278923W
Long time passing	Susan Galleymore	"In this remarkable portrait of what it means to be a mother in time of war, Susan Galleymore tells of her unusual step of traveling to Iraq to visit her son on a military base." "What she found ther…	OL15487097W
Known and Unknown	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…	OL15670836W
Crusade	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 …	OL15835588W