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Arms and Armor: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive)

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: July 1995

Seller ID: 328983

ISBN: 0486285618

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Over thousands of years, man has developed an enormous variety of offensive and defensive weapons for use in battle as well as a vast array of armor and other protective devices. Now artists and illustrators can draw on this extensive archive for superb copyright-free illustrations of vintage arms, armor, and other battlefield paraphernalia.
Choose from a rich trove of over 750 illustrations compiled from rare nineteenth-century sources. Included are detailed, high-quality depictions -- arranged chronologically and, to some extent, geographically -- of suits of armor, chain mail, swords, h...
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Roosevelt and De Gaulle (a Personal Memoir of Allies in Conflict)

By: Aglion

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Free Press: February 1988

Seller ID: 339512

ISBN: 0029015405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Discusses the private political disagreements of de Gaulle and Roosevelt, and looks at U.S. relations with the Vichy government.
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Finding the Fallen: Outstanding Aircrew Mysteries from the First World War to Desert Storm Investigated and Solved

By: Andy Saunders

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Grub Street Publishing: December 2011

Seller ID: 343500

ISBN: 1908117109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

The logical successor to the highly acclaimed Finding the Few and Finding the Foe, this new work covers a selection of similar mysteries involving missing aircrew and spanning almost the entire twentieth century.Starting with a reappraisal of the Mannock affair, the author highlights the fates variously of RAF, USAF, Luftwaffe personnel from bomber, reconnaissance and fighter crews. Each case is examined with a microscopic and forensic approach worthy of Silent Witness, and evaluates the detective work involved in unraveling these long-unsolved disappearances of lost airmen. In many cases ther...
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The Battle of Bannockburn 1314

By: Aryeh S. Nusbacher

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Tempus Pub Ltd: July 2000

Seller ID: 382497

ISBN: 0752417835

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Winged Shield, Winged Sword: A History of the United States Air Force (2 Volume Set) 1907-1997

By: Bernard C. Nalty, S/N 008-070-00717-7

Price: $14.95

Publisher: For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs: December 1997

Seller ID: 300140

ISBN: 016049009X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Eyewitness to the Alamo

By: Bill Groneman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Republic of Texas Pr: May 1996

Seller ID: 360554

ISBN: 1556225024

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Eyewitness to the Alamo is an actual account of the siege and Battle of the Alamo by those who were present during the attack. Fifty people are believed to have witnessed all or part of one of the most legendary events in Texas and U.S. history. Did Travis draw his famous line? Was Crockett executed or did he die fighting? Did Bowie tight from his sickbed? Some eyewitnesses claimed to know the true story behind the myths, but were all of these witnesses credible? The origins of and answers to these questions can be found in Eyewitness to the Alamo, the first complete accounting of the Battle o...
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Ranger Dawn: The American Ranger from the Colonial Era to the Mexican War (Stackpole Military History Series)

By: Black, Robert W.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Stackpole Books: September 2009

Seller ID: 388223

ISBN: 0811736008

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Early history of the forerunners of one of the world's most elite military units, the U.S. Army RangersThe French and Indian War, the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Texas War of Independence, and the Mexican WarFeatures Ranger pioneers like Robert Rogers, Francis Marion, and George Rogers ClarkRobert W. Black adds a new chapter to his story of the American Rangers, beginning with the birth of the Ranger idea in the 1600s and following Ranger forces through the Mexican War of 1846-48.
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Plan of Attack

By: Bob Woodward

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 2004

Seller ID: 376929

ISBN: 074325547X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Bob Woodward's book on President Bush and the Iraq war will be the definitive account of the turning point in history as Bush, his war council and allies launched a pre-emptive attack, toppling Saddam Hussein and taking over the country. From in-depth interviews with key players and notes from national security meetings, Woodward provides a thoroughly original, authoritative narrative of the behind-the-scenes manoeuvring, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. What emerges is an astonishingly intimate portrait of Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Dona...
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

By: Bowden, Mark

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: March 2000

Seller ID: 393715

ISBN: 0140288503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is the extraordinary minute-by-minute account of that courageous, historic, and brutal night.
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God Willing: My Wild Ride with the New Iraqi Army

By: Capt. Eric Navarro USMCR

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.: February 2008

Seller ID: 382052

ISBN: 1597971693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ten U.S. Marines are assigned to live, train, and go into battle with more than five hundred raw and undisciplined Iraqi soldiers. A member of this Adviser Support Team, Capt. Eric Navarro, recounts their tour in vivid and brutally honest detail. Their deployment comes at a particularly important time in the war. The Battle of Fallujah is raging, and President Bush has proclaimed training the Iraqi forces is the key to winning the war. Once they stand up, we can stand down, or so the theory goes. Navarro's team, nicknamed The Drifters, faces countless roadblocks--no interpreters initially, lim...
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Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

By: Caroline Moorehead

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub: May 1999

Seller ID: 376909

ISBN: 0786706090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Red Cross was the dream of the Swiss businessman Henri Dunant that grew into the pre-eminent international humanitarian charity. The story begins in 1859, when almost by chance, Dunant witnessed the butchery and lack of care for injured soldiers during the battle of Solferino. Realizing that, although modern warfare meant more, and worse, wounded, medical treatment for the first time could save significant numbers of them, he began a crusade leading to 137 national societies and 250 million members today.
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SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden

By: Chuck Pfarrer

Price: $5.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: November 2011

Seller ID: 362604

ISBN: 125000635X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"The true story of the killing of bin Laden by author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer"

On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. a satellite uplink was sent from Pakistan crackling into the situation room of the White House: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, ended Osama bin Laden's reign of terror. "SEAL Target Geronimo "is the story of Neptune's Spear from the men who were there. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details in an exclusive account of what happened as he takes readers inside the walls of B...
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Every Man a Tiger

By: Clancy, Tom

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Putnam Adult: May 1999

Seller ID: 395868

ISBN: 0399144935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Combining military history and biography, a profile of General Chuck Horner, commander of the allied air forces during the Persian Gulf War, discusses the tactics involved, as well as the changing nature of our Air Force.
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq

By: Colby Buzzell

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Putnam Adult: October 2005

Seller ID: 335891

ISBN: 0399153276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A U.S. Army soldier who served in Iraq as a member of the Stryker Brigade Combat Team recounts his experiences during a tour of duty in which he engaged in dangerous firefights and kept an online web log describing his war experiences.
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Inside the SAS

By: Craig Philip

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Bookmart: January 1994

Seller ID: 386309

ISBN: 185605232X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Medieval Warfare Source Book: Christian Europe and its Neighbours, Vol. 2

By: David Nicolle

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Brockhampton Press: May 2004

Seller ID: 368586

ISBN: 1860198619

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From the 5th to the 15th century, the author charts the peoples, armies, weapons, strategies, fortifications and leaders of warfare involving Western Christendom beyond its borders.'
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Knights of Jerusalem: The Crusading Order of Hospitallers 1100-1565 (General Military)

By: David Nicolle

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing: August 2008

Seller ID: 333361

ISBN: 1846030803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Order of St John of the Hospital of Jerusalem (or the Hospitallers as they are better known) has existed for almost a thousand years. It was established in Jerusalem in the mid-11th century to care for Christian pilgrims and its role initially was entirely non-combatant. But, as the wars of the crusades progressed, the Order took on a military role, at first simply protecting the pilgrims and then expressed as "defending the Holy Sepulchre to the last drop of blood and fighting the infidel wherever one can find them." The military arm of the Order quickly emerged as one of the most effe...
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story

By: Dick Couch,William Doyle

Price: $6.95

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: June 2015

Seller ID: 336454

ISBN: 0062336614

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

"Captures the essence of Naval Special Warfare from our storied beginnings to the current fight and gives us a glimpse of what the future might bring for the 21st Century Navy SEALs." --Admiral WILLIAM J. McRAVEN (USN, Ret.), former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command)

"The first comprehensive history of the special operations force. ... Couch and Doyle do a great job of putting the entire story into context." --Military.com

Written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive hist...
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Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown

By: Eric Blehm

Price: $7.95

Publisher: WaterBrook Press: May 2013

Seller ID: 383581

ISBN: 0307730700

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators.

When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan--but he was ready. In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, he wrote, "I'm not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me."

Fearless is the story of a man of extremes, whose courage and determination...
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The Weather Factor : How Nature Has Changed History

By: Erik Durschmied

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: January 2001

Seller ID: 372940

ISBN: 0340768061

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Throughout history, the weather has been responsible for the deaths of more people than the spear, bullet or atomic bomb. This title examines climatic devastation and the uncertainty that the weather brings.
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