Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

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  War

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  Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

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  The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

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  The Forever War

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  Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins…

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  Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

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  Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East

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  "Tells the story brilliantly." ―Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
  
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  Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

  Former Army officer Parnell and collaborator Bruning (Shadow of the Sword) reprise Parnell’s 16 months as an infantry platoon leader in Afghanistan in this heartfelt memoir. In 2006, Parnell and his 1…

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  Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

  Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping…

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  Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

  'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal…

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  First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance

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  Footnotes in Gaza

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  Freedom

  A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe.
  
  Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and fre…

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  Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers…

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  The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

  A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible…

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  In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

  A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.
  
  For years as an award-winning war report…

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  Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

  Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandtorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky, red dust. On rooftops, in alleyways l…

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  Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

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  What Now, Lieutenant?: Leadership Forged from Events in Vietnam, Desert Storm and Beyond

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  Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

  From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret & successf…

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  The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers

  How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge
   
  This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for…

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