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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
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
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 Junior Officers' Reading Club The Junior Officers' Reading Club Patrick Hennessey For the first time in a generation British soldiers are once again fighting at close quarters, coming under sustained and vicious firepower, losing friends in some of the most violent fighting the mo… OL15181812W
Bulletproof Bulletproof Matt Croucher One marine's electrifying story of ferocious combat behind enemy lines. AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008: in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces a… OL15187055W
The heart of a soldier The heart of a soldier 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… OL15826559W
The blog of war The blog of war Matthew Currier Burden "In The Blog of War Matthew Currier Burden presents selections from some of the best of the military blogs, the purest account of the many voices of this war. This is the first real-time history of a… OL16025394W
I love a man in uniform I love a man in uniform Lily Burana Author Lily Burana writes about love, war, and the realities of military marriage with an honesty few writers would dare. A former exotic dancer who once had a penchant for anarchist politics and pur… OL16567617W
Sniper one Sniper one Dan Mills When Sgt. Mills and his regiment flew into southern Iraq they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds, but instead they were soon fighting for their lives in defence of their HQ, Cimic House in … OL17873440W
Unremarried widow Unremarried widow Artis Henderson A journalist and essayist traces the difficult process of picking up the pieces of her life after it was shattered by the death of her husband, a Texan solider whose Apache helicopter crashed in Iraq. OL17886539W
Beyond duty Beyond duty Shannon P. Meehan "Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the … OL17899331W
American sniper American sniper Chris Kyle The astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, whose record 150 confirmed kills make him the most deadly sniper in U.S. military history. OL19950899W
The trident The trident Jason Redman "A Navy SEAL's highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him--if it were not for his grit and the devotion of his wife and f… OL19969799W
American sniper American sniper Chris Kyle A member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the U.S. military's history, in a memorial edition filled with r… OL19986809W
The longest kill The longest kill Harrison, Craig (Sniper) It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the e… OL20020024W
A journal for Jordan A journal for Jordan Dana Canedy In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fiance, a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his… OL20504116W
Captivity Captivity James Loney "The powerful account of the remarkable peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation and held for ransom by Iraqi insurgents until his paradoxical release by a crack unit of special forc… OL27738924W
In Baghdad In Baghdad Paul McGeough As war loomed, reporters from around the World swarmed into Iraq. But in the end Paul McGeough was one of a handful (and the only Australian), to cover the entire war from Iraq. Keeping a daily d… OL6073642W
Chasing Ghosts Chasing Ghosts Paul Rieckhoff The riveting, action-packed true story of the first soldier to challenge the war in Iraq.As a 1st Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon Leader for the U.S. Army, charged with leading 38 young men in Iraq, … OL8165703W
Rule Number Two Rule Number Two Heidi Squier Kraft When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq . A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war… OL9239897W
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