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Books |
 The Airmen and the
Headhunters
A True Story of Lost
Solders, Heroic Tribesmen
and the Unlikeliest Rescue
of World War II.
By Judith Heimann
See:
Interview with Judith
Heimann |
 The War: An Intimate
History, 1941-1945
History buffs, Ken
Burns fans, and anyone
whose life has been
touched by war will be
awed by Burns's new book,
The War: An Intimate
History, 1941-1945, a
stunning companion to his
PBS series.
By Geoffrey C. Ward and
Ken Burns |
 Lone Survivor: The
Eyewitness Account of
Operation Redwing and the
Lost Heroes of SEAL Team
10
By Marcus Luttrell |
 Fiasco: The American
Military Adventure in Iraq
Ricks gives a thorough and
devastating history of the
War in Iraq.
By Thomas E. Ricks |
 At the Center of the
Storm: My Years at the CIA
Ex-CIA chief's controversial memoir
gives his account on
Iraq, the 'slam dunk' and more.
By George Tenet |
 Roberts Ridge: A Story of
Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain,
Afghanistan
True story of the heroic efforts to rescue Navy SEAL Neil
Roberts in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in March 2002.
By Malcolm MacPherson |
 What Was Asked of Us: An
Oral History of the Iraq
War by the Soldiers Who
Fought It
"They tell us about their lives and careers, their families back
home, their days and nights, the Iraqis they've encountered, the
fear and the courage and the challenges of fighting a war when the
enemy is everywhere and nowhere at once."
By Trish Wood, Bobby
Muller |
 Flags of our Fathers
The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in 1945 on
a rocky island south of
Japan, brought a ferocious
slice of hell to earth: in
a month's time, more than
22,000 Japanese soldiers
would die defending a
patch of ground a third
the size of Manhattan,
while nearly 7,000
Americans were killed taking it
from them.
By James Bradley, Ron
Powers |
 Warlord:
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
Wall Street commodities trader, galvanized by 9/11, rejoins the
Corps and finds himself charged with the murder of two Iraqi
insurgents.
By Ilario Pantano |
 My
War: Killing Time in Iraq
Buzzell converts his widely read
2004
blog into an episodic but captivating memoir about the year he
spent serving as an army "trigger puller" in Iraq. By Colby Buzzell |
 The
One Percent Doctrine
Suskind
will show readers what he calls "the invisible battlefield" - a
global matrix where U.S. spies race to catch soldiers of jihad
before they strike. It is a real life spy thriller with the world's
future at stake. By Ron Suskind |
 Guests
of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant
Islam
Book
chronicles the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by student
militants, who held 66 American staffers hostage from November 1979
till January 1981, seizing this nation's attention in the process. By Mark Bowden |
 Cobra
II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Hindsight is
20/20 and this book gives a clear analysis of Iraq War
miscalculations by the Bush Administration, the CIA, and top
military brass.
By Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor |
 A
Sniper's Journey: The Truth About the Man Behind the Rifle
A compelling,
troubling story, this war memoir recounts the hellish experiences of
an 18-year-old naïf from Texas who volunteered to fight in the
Vietnam War only to find himself transformed into a part-time
sniper. By Douglas Valentine |
 Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the
CIA's Key Field Commander
By Gary
Berntsen |
 Victory
in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established
the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation
America's
first war against Muslim terrorists! By Joshua E. London
Victory in Tripoli Website |
 Thieves
of Baghdad
Marine
Colonel lives the life of Indiana Jones in Iraq, tracking down
priceless antiquities looted from the Iraq National Museum. By
Matthew Bogdanos |
 One
Bullet Away
"One
Bullet Away can be recommended to anyone wanting a frontline
description of this country's recent combat theaters and to anyone
seeking a personal account of the contemporary Marine Corps. Marines
are people, and Captain Fick puts proof of it on paper." By
Nathaniel C. Fick |
 182
Days in Iraq
"Phil Kiver's real life, moment-to-moment journal of his
assignment as an Army journalist in Iraq is honest,
irreverent -- gripping and emotional one moment -- a howl the next. By
Phil Kiver |
 Love
My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
"Whip smart, sassy, with a mouth as foul as a sailor's,
28-year-old Sergeant Kayla Williams, who has served as an Arabic
interpreter in the U.S. Army since late spring 2000, tells what it's
like to be a female soldier in Iraq.
By Kayla Williams |
 Down
Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism
"In America's
battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of the Navy SEALs
is to be the best guns in the fight -- stealthy, effective,
professional, and lethal. Here for the first time is a SEAL
insider's battle history of these Special Operations warriors in the
War on Terrorism. By Dick Couch |
 Ghost
Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic
Mission
Gripping account of the rescue of 500 American and Allied POWs
from behind Japanese lines on the Philippine island of Luzon during
World War II.
By Hampton Sides |
 Basrah,
Baghdad, and Beyond: U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War
This is the story of the Marine Corps in the major combat phase
of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Written by Marine Corps Historian Col. Nicholas E. Reynolds |
 First
In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on
Terror in Afghanistan
By Gary Schroen |
 Among
Warriors in Iraq: True Grit, Special Ops, and Lock-and-Load Raiding
in Mosul and Fallujah, by Mike Tucker
"Join Big Hungry, Kentucky Rife, Serpico and Jedi Knight for a
harrowing journey into the heart of the Iraqi insurgency." |
 Shooter:
The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
"The 3rd
Battalion has a veteran sniper, Staff Sergeant Jack Coughlin, for
whom the war in Iraq was only the latest of many wars. On the first
day of battle at the Diyala Bridge, he had eleven kills." |
 Iraq:
Providing Hope
"Amazing personal accounts that tell the inside story of what
America has been doing in Iraq. It seems the daily headline are
always negative; in this book the stories are filled with
sacrifices, courage and charity." |
 McCoy's
Marines
They were the soldiers who pulled down the statue of Saddam
Hussein -- the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, led by Lt. Col.
Bryan P. McCoy (radio call sign: Darkside). And this is the story of
their war, seen from the inside by the reporter they called
Paperboy. |
 Not
a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda, By Sean
Naylor
At dawn on March 2, 2002, America's first major battle of the
21st century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th
Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley - and into
the mouth of a buzz saw. |
 Masters
of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces, By Linda
Robinson
Robinson follows the Special Forces from their first post-Vietnam
combat in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalia, and the
Balkans to their recent trials and triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
 Code
Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operations in the
9/11 World, by William Arkin
From "Able Ally" to "Zodiac Beauchamp," this book identifies more
than 3,000 code names and details the plans and missions for which
they stand. |
 Charlie
Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation
in History, by George Crile
From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary
story of the largest and most successful CIA operation in history --
the arming of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. |
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