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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Factories of death	Sheldon H Harris	"Before and during World War II, Japanese scientists conducted experiments on live human beings in a quest to develop a biological warfare program; eventually, their efforts led to the first wartime …	OL12023303W
Citizens of London	Lynne Olson	In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her acclaimed Troublesome Young Men. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of how the…	OL14909916W
Rogue Forces	Dale Brown	The clash of civilizations will be won . . . by thte highest bidderWhat happens when America's most lethal military contractor becomes uncontrollably powerful? His election promised a new day for Ame…	OL14949651W
The unspoken alliance	Sasha Polakow-Suransky	>A revelatory account of Israel's secret military cooperation with apartheid South Africa. Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was the darling of the international Left. But after its occupation of Pale…	OL15026877W
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
The Mayaguez incident	Robert J. Mahoney	"Investigates the four-day international crisis after the 1975 seizure of the SS Mayaguez, which involved both American and Cambodian forces during the Vietnam War. Documents intelligence failures th…	OL15538292W
Once a warrior king	David Donovan	"Portrays the Vietnam experience of an officer and a gentlemen. It is the story of a man with a sense of honor and responsibility that extended beyond his immediate command and encompassed the people…	OL15858193W
Medevedev's Plan	Dr. Richard J. Krickus	The author addresses the question of how to give Russia a voice but not a veto in a new European security system and provides some provocative recommendations. Most specifically, he proposes that the…	OL16076136W
More Terrible Than Death	Robin Kirk	"The estimated 6 million Americans who use cocaine and heroin spend at least $46 billion a year on the drugs. For the past two decades, the United States government has spent more than $7 billion a y…	OL1646105W
Base colonies in the Western hemisphere, 1940-1967	Steven C. High	"This book examines the consequences of the famous Anglo-American destroyers-for-bases deal of September 1940, which saw fifty aged US destroyers exchanged for extensive army and navy base sites in T…	OL16985404W
The Pakistan trap	Rajeev Sharma	Pakistan's foreign relations with India; contributed articles.	OL18258161W
The last crusaders	Barnaby Rogerson	The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for they m…	OL18584444W
The Soviet counterinsurgency in the western borderlands	Alexander Statiev	"The Soviet counterinsurgency in the western borderlands investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies that occurred between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after…	OL18685609W
The Two O'Clock War	Walter J. Boyne	It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. It was…	OL1881966W
Resurgent Russia	Malcolm W. Nance,R. Reed Anderson,Patrick J. Ellis,Antonio M. Paz,Kyle A. Reed,Lendy Renegar,J. T. Vaughan	"Relations between the United States and Russia have recently escalated from strained to outright aggressive. From imperial expansion in Ukraine to intervention in Syria to Russian hacking during the…	OL19721811W
Directorate S	Steve Coll	Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War falt…	OL19730250W
Arms and the dudes	Guy Lawson	The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a …	OL20010826W
Natos Return to Europe	Rebecca R. Moore,Nicholas Burns,Damon Coletta	1 online resource	OL21156753W
From Copenhagen to Brussels	Antonio Missiroli	This chronological compilation brings together official documents on European security and defence, including statements, decisions and other material from the relevant EU structures. It is a valuabl…	OL24684433W
Fiasco	Thomas E. Ricks	The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voi…	OL2688486W