History - Military

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Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Führer...

James Longo

A stunning work of narrative history revealing how and why Adolf Hitler targeted the children of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, making the Archduke's sons the first two Austrians deported to the Dachau concentration camp, ...

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Published: Dec 2019

Inside Delta Force: The Story of Amer...

Eric L. Haney

Now the inspiration for the CBS Television drama, "The Unit."Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army's most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No h...

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Published: Aug 2005

Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley

In this unforgettable, #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, Bradley (Flyboys) captures the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised...

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Published: Aug 2006

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: In...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. The Washington Post's forme...

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Published: Sep 2007

Generation Kill

Evan Wright

A narrative on the lives of twenty-three First Recon Marines who led the blitzkrieg on Iraq describes their training, their dangerous entry into suspected ambush points, and the physical and psychological challenges they faced in skir...

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Published: Apr 2005

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the A...

Liza Mundy

An instant national bestseller hailed as "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times), Code Girls is Liza Mundy's award-winning account of the American women who secretly served as U.S. Army and Navy codebreaker...

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Published: Oct 2018

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Es...

Ben Macintyre

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem f...

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Published: Aug 2008

Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Viet...

William Albracht

An astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War—includes a foreword by Joseph L. Galloway, New York Times bestselling coauthor of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.  In October 1969, William Alb...

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Published: Feb 2016

Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Norma...

Donald R. Burgett

Seven days in hellIn June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, a new breed of fighting man leapt from airplanes through a bullet-stitched, tracer-lit sky to...

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Published: Sep 2000

The Good Soldiers

David Finkel

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMESCHICAGO TRIBUNESLATE.COMTHE BOSTON GLOBETHE KANSAS CITY STARTHE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND)THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITORWINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISMI...

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Published: Aug 2010

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Sto...

Doug Stanton

The New York Times bestselling "spellbinding true-life story" (USA TODAY) of a United States Special Forces team deployed to the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains in the weeks immediately following 9/11, overcoming great odd...

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Published: May 2010

The Battle For History: Re-fighting W...

John Keegan

With the same erudition, discernment, and crisp prose that made his A History of Warfare an international bestseller, Keegan surveys the literature of World War II, identifying the works he finds most important and illuminating while ...

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Published: Jan 1996

The Last of the Wine: Paris During th...

John Baxter

A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history.From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the Fre...

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Published: Apr 2014

SIEGE: MALTA 1940-1943 (Pen & Sword M...

Ernle Bradford

Situated halfway between Europe and Africa, Malta played a central role in the battles for the mastery of North Africa. The island was the vital supply base for British and Imperial troops in the to-and-fro desert campaigns against fi...

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Published: Apr 2003

We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold S...

Marcus Brotherton

From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers. They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into ...

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Published: May 2010

The Missing of the Somme

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer's classic The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, he examines...

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Published: Jul 2011

Thank You for Your Service

David Finkel

No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they ca...

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Published: Sep 2014

With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold St...

Michael Korda

In the summer of 1940, fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. In this superb history of three epic months that saved the world,...

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Published: Jan 2010

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man a...

Ben Macintyre

2011 Broadway trade paperback, Ben Macintyre (A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal). In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and...

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Published: Apr 2011

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Por...

Jon Meacham

The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leadersFranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin ...

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Published: Oct 2004

Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied E...

Lynne Olson

A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of Londo...

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Published: Feb 2018

11 Days in December: Christmas at the...

Stanley Weintraub

It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort to the Allied soldiers trying to stop the Nazis from retaking Belgium in one of the most decisive battles of World War II. While a German loudspe...

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Published: Nov 2007

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors...

James D. Hornfischer

Based on eyewitness accounts, declassified Navy documents, and interviews and correspondence with veterans, this epic account chronicles the October 1944 battle off Samar between a vastly outnumbered fleet of American warships and a f...

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Published: Mar 2005

Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Di...

Larry Alexander

Complemented by never-before-seen photographs and insights by family, friends, and fellow veterans, this inspirational chronicle pays tribute to the war-time accomplishments of Major Richard D. Winters, the skillful leader of the Band...

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Published: May 2006

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of...

Ken Alibek

Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with po...

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Published: Jan 1999

The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of ...

Cornelius Ryan

THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF THE ALLIED INVASION OF NORMANDYThe Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory an...

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Published: Jan 2006

The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengean...

Howard Blum

In the final weeks of World War II, his Majesty's Jewish Brigade--the only such unit in the war--went into combat against the mighty Wehrmacht. 'The Brigade' is a personal drama of three remarkable men who set out to fight a war, and ...

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Published: Oct 2002

Americans in Paris: Life and Death Un...

Charles Glass

An unforgettable portrait of the diverse American community in Paris during the occupation. From the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, Americans in Paris recounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and s...

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Published: Feb 2011

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of W...

Hampton Sides

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous...

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Published: May 2002

Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th R...

Stephen E. Ambrose

As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler'...

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Published: Sep 2001
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