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Why Vietnam Matters
An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
By Rufus Phillips; Foreword by Richard Holbrooke
“Phillips’s short chapter on lessons the U.S. should have learned from the Vietnam War should be mandatory reading in Washington, D.C.” — Publishers Weekly

“It is, among other things, a wonderful read, full of detail and drama.” —George Packer, The New Yorker

Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam ...

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Zulu Frontiersman
By Major C.G. Dennison; Edited by Ron Lock and Peter Quantrill

It is said that Charles George Dennison saw more active service in the British nineteenth-century colonial wars for southern Africa than any other man. Considered a frontiersman equal in standing to any legendary figure of the American West, he rose from an ordinary trooper to a British officer whose advice was sought by top British officials of the day. Sadly ...

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Night Fighters
Luftwaffe and RAF Air Combat over Europe, 1939-1945
By Colin D. Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis
Night Fighters chronicles the historical, technological, tactical and strategic evolution of limited visibility aerial combat between Great Britain and Germany during WW II. The subjects interviewed for his project were the key individuals responsible for the creation and execution of their respective national policies governing the conduct of the nocturnal air war. The science developed by both nations assisted in ...
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Bound for Africa
Cold War Fight along the Zambezi
By Douglas H. Hubbard Jr.
Bound For Africa is the story of one man’s introduction to Africa at a time when much of the continent was in the grips of Cold War skirmishing between the free world and opposing communist forces of China and the Soviet Union. The author, frayed from three years of service in the Vietnam War, traveled to Africa intending to become ...
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In Which They Served
The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War
By Brian Lavery

Brian Lavery's extensively researched study takes an in-depth look at the officers of the Royal Navy and the various routes they took from initial recruitment and training to their role in the fighting. The first half of the book looks at the selection and training of all types of officers, from experienced yachtsmen and tradesmen to ordinary seamen, and includes ...

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On the Corps
USMC Wisdom from the Pages of Leatherneck, Marine Corps Gazette, and Proceedings
By Lt. Col. Charles P. Neimeyer, USMC (Ret.)
The purpose of this anthology is to serve as a ready resource of material that defines the Marine Corps as an institution and to capture the essence of what it means to be a Marine. Compiled from articles published in the Marine Corps Gazette, Leatherneck, and Proceedings, the collection is divided into four parts. The first section ...
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Through the Wheat
The U.S. Marines in World War I
By Brig. Gen. Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.) and Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.)
U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a defining moment in the Marine Corps' great history. It is a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational achievements, along with lessons learned the hard way. The Marines entered World War I as a small force of seagoing light infantry that had rarely faced a well-armed enemy. On a ...
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Darwin's Extraordinary Adventure aboard Fitroy's Famous Survey Ship
By James Taylor

The bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his ground-breaking publication On the Origin of Species will be celebrated throughout the world in 2009 with major exhibitions and a major motion picture about his life. Author James Taylor commemorates the anniversaries with a book that takes the title of one of Darwin's great works to ...

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The Silver Star
Navy and Marine Corps Gallantry in Iraq, Afghanistan and Other Conflicts
By James E. Wise Jr. and Scott Baron
The authors have compiled this stirring collection of profiles in courage to honor the Sailors and Marines awarded the Silver Star by the U.S. Navy while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. It documents the extraordinary, award-winning actions of young American men in the war against global terrorism. A companion volume to The Navy Cross (Naval Institute Press, 2007), this book ...
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The Mother of All Battles
Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War
By Kevin M. Woods
Events 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 photographs captured by U.S. forces in 2003 from the regime’s archives and never intended for outsiders’ eyes. The book is part of an official U.S. Joint Forces Command research project ...
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