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Miracle at Midway
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Gordon W. Prange |
With the infamy of Pearl Harbor still fresh in their minds, the men of the U.S. Pacific Fleet waited for the Japanese Imperial Navy at Midway Island. This time, however, the element of surprise had s… |
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Kill Bin Laden
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Dalton Fury |
The firsthand account by a commander of the Army's Tier 1 counter terrorist unit Delta Force on the operation in the mountains of Tora Bora near the Pakistan border. Fury recounts the details of the … |
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On call in hell
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Cdr. Richard Jadick,Richard Jadick,Thomas Hayden |
Chronicles the experiences of a thirty-eight-year-old Navy doctor during the Battle of Fallujah, when he and his medical team worked around the clock under fire to save the lives of troops involved i… |
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Art of War
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H. Avery Chenoweth |
Collected eyewitness paintings of US armed forces in combat. |
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A week at Waterloo
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De Lancey, Magdalene Lady |
"One woman's true story of war, love, and loss." "Magdalene De Lancey fought to save her husband's life on the edge of the battlefield at Waterloo. American-born William was one of the first professi… |
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Landscape Turned Red
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Stephen W. Sears |
Of all the days on all the fields where American soldiers have fought, the most terrible was September 17, 1862. The Civil War battle waged on that date at Antietam Creek, Maryland, took a human toll… |
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Mourning headband for Hue
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Nhã Ca |
"Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nhã Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts… |
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Toen Napoleon Maly verliet
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Peter d' Hamecourt |
Geschiedenis van de ten zuidwesten van Moskou gelegen provinciestad Malojaroslavtsjane oftewel Maly, vanaf 1812, toen Napoleon tijdens zijn Russische veldtocht daar slag leverde met het Russische leg… |
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Utmost savagery
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Alexander, Joseph H. |
The Bloody Conquest of Tarawa in November 1943 by the newly created Central Pacific Force was the first trial-by-fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine against a heavily fortified ob… |
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Decisive Battles
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John Colvin |
Military historian John Colvin examines the battles throughout the centuries that can be said to be "decisive", in that they affected not just immediate events but also the final outcome of a war and… |
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Battle
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Richard Holmes |
Discover the history of battles, from the hand-to-hand combat of the ancient Assyrians to the artillery actions of World War I. |
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The Penobscot Expedition
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George E. Buker |
"Although a seminal event in early U.S. naval history, the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition of 1779 remains one of the least studied aspects of the American Revolution - and one of the most controversi… |
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Finest hour
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Tim Clayton,Phil Craig |
Sixty years ago, Europe lay at the feet of Adolf Hitler. Standing between Hitler and world domination was the just-appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a few hundred pilots in the Royal Air… |
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Great commanders and their battles
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Anthony Livesey |
Describes the victories of twenty of history's greatest military minds, spanning two thousand years, including Robert E. Lee, Erwin Rommel, Moshe Dayan, Henry V, and Napoleon. - Amazon.com |
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Iwo Jima
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Bill D. Ross |
February 19, 1945: the day on which, on a seemingly impregnable flyspeck Pacific island some 75,000 United Marines began there thirty-sex day assaults against Japanese forces defending to the last ma… |
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Flags of our fathers
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Bradley, James,James Bradley,Ron Powers |
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who ra… |
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Alamein
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Jon Latimer |
"The Battle of El Alamein in 1942 brought a sense of victory to a Britain grown weary from defeat. And it was a decisive victory: the Eighth Army ended for ever the see-saw desert campaign and drove … |
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Albuera
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Peter William Edwards |
The battle of Albuera was fought between the forces of France, led by Marshal Soult, and the combined forces of Britain, Portugal and Spain under Sir William Beresford. The battle, named after the Sp… |
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Dunkirk
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Hugh Sebag-Montefiore |
The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had… |
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Carlson's Raid
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George W. Smith |
"By the summer of 1942, American morale was extremely low. Despite the navy's victory at Midway, the Japanese continued their advance in the Southwest Pacific. To provide a diversion to the invasion … |
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