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The Longest War
The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq—only to move into Afghanistan, where the ten-year-old fight continues: the war on terror rages with no clear end in sight. In The Longest War Peter...
American Chinatown
A People's History of Five Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
CHINATOWN, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine. Every day, Americans find "something different" in Chinatown's narrow lanes and overflowing markets, tasting exotic delicacies from a world apart or bartering for a trinket...
Tear Down This Myth
How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded...
Reagan
A Life In Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000. Their breadth is equally astonishing -- with friends and family, with politicians, children, and other private...
Conquered into Liberty
Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Americans often think of the Civil War as the conflict that consolidated the United States, including its military values and practices. But there was another, earlier, and more protracted struggle between “North” and “South,” beginning in the 1600s and lasting for more than two centuries,...
Terrorists in Love
The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Imagine a world where a boy’s dreams dictate the behavior of warriors in battle; where a young couple’s only release from forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind hatred, and endemic corruption combine to form a lethal ideology that can hijack a man’s life forever. This is the...
Last Days in Babylon
The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's exotic Middle Eastern ways. She refused to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home. She rejected the peculiar food they ate in favor of hamburgers and beer. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago,...
The Snake Eaters
Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
WHEN A DOZEN UNPREPARED AMERICAN ARMY RESERVISTS ARE DROPPED OFF on an isolated Iraqi outpost with orders to be its military advisors, they have no idea that what they will really be doing is fighting. With no training to fall back on, this group—including a guitarist, a DEA agent, a plumber, and...
The Ballad of Little River
A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural Sou
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. "We're stuck down here being poor together" is how...
The First Air War
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
"In this fascinating book, Lee Kennett tells of (World War I fliers and) their experiences on all fronts and skillfully places them in proper context" (Edward M. Coffman, author of The Old Army"). "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation."--Richard P. Hallion, Lindbergh Professor, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Holy War, Inc.
Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil....
by Allan R. Millett
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1992
Eight scholars - Alan R. Millett, Paul Kennedy, Earl F. Ziemke, Alvin D. Coox, Williamson Murray, Brian Sullivan, Steven Ross and Calvin L. Christman - examine the methods used by the major powers of World War II to evaluate their own and their enemies' military capacity.
by Peter Maslowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
A chronicle of the frontline photographers of World War II recounts the sometimes harrowing exploits of the American Military Photographers, men armed with cameras who accompanied the Army, Marines, Air Force, and Navy into battle.
The Return
Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows in this compelling...