Wars & Conflicts
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The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
$28.99 Add to cartIn 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousand
- Author: Pearlman, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324092238
- Language: English
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Churchill’s D-Day: The British Bulldog’s Fateful Hours During the Normandy Invasion
$29.99 Add to cart“Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed?” – Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944
From the world’s greatest collection of … [more below]
- Author: Packwood, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769590
- Language: English
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Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey’s Cold War
$30.99 Read moreThe remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years.
John (Ja- Author: Werth, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1501153978
- Language: English
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The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein’s Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War
$32.00 Add to cartEvents in this story of the “Mother of All Battles,” as Saddam designated the 1991 war, are drawn from primary Iraqi sources, including government documents, video and audiotapes, maps, and photograph… [more below]
- Author: Woods, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149428
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$24.95 Add to cartPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very di
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 189101157X
- Language: English
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The Other Trench: The WW1 Diary and Photos of a German Officer
$30.99 Add to cart“This diary is not just a recollection of experiences written after the war, but literally the experiences I wrote down every day. They are therefore a genuine reflection of the heavy fighting against… [more below]
- Author: Pfeifer, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1068609826
- Language: English
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
$24.95 Add to cartThe Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on F… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172183
- Language: English
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight — and keep fighting — for a lost cause in World War II
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary … [more below]- Author: Stargardt, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094899
- Language: English
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The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station That Helped Defeat the Nazis
$12.99 Add to cart‘Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.‘
– Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X.
At Bletchley Park, some of Britain’s most talented mathematician- Author: Turing, John Dermot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1838576509
- Language: English
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Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone
$28.00 Read moreWritten on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches m
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0307270807
- Language: English
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
$30.00 Add to cart“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0143132156
- Language: English
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Holler: A Poet Among Patriots
$28.00 Read moreA tour de force of prose style, Holler is poet Danielle Chapman’s moving and provocative portrait of her Southern, military childhood — and an unflinching reckoning with what such an inheritance mean
- Author: Chapman, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$42.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill’s fears were well-placed-the casualty
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190495855
- Language: English
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American Sniper: Memorial Edition
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.
From 199
- Author: Kyle, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0062297872
- Language: English
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe
$13.99 Add to cartJune 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor
- Series: Making History
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0060762152
- Language: English
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This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
$31.00 Add to cartThis Is Not Who We Are examines America’s struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country’s humanity affects us all, this book is for lo… [more below]
- Author: Shore, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: January 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1009203444
- Language: English
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Cease Fire! Cease Fire!: Councilman Chuck, A Hero(in) Addiction
$28.00 Add to cartCouncilman Chuck (as he likes to be referred to) was the youngest (at 28) of the five black candidates in Richmond, Virginia who were elected to the first black majority City Council in 1977. In the f
- Author: Richardson, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0998167215
- Language: English
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First Over There
$21.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of America’s first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage
At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918,- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1250843499
- Language: English
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A Shau: Crucible of the Vietnam War
$39.95 Add to cartNestled in Vietnam’s Thua Thien Province, west of the city of Hue, and bordering Laos, the narrow 40-kilometer long A Shau Valley, situated between densely forested mountain ranges, witnessed prolonge
- Author: Phillips, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1642280445
- Language: English
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The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942
$28.95 Add to cartThe second part of H. P. Willmott’s three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring … [more below]
- Author: Willmott, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149495
- Language: English
