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"0900, Thursday, July 25, 2019: President Trump called Ukraine?s President Zelensky, supposedly to congratulate him on his recent victory. In the months that followed, the American public would only learn what happened on that call because Alexander Vindman felt duty-bound to report it up the chain of command: that the President of the United States had extorted a foreign ally to damage a political challenger at home. Vindman?s actions and subsequent...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xxv, 542 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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An acclaimed military historian presents this powerful history of four military leaders--Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the U.S. victoriously through two World Wars.
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
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9 sound discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.
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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c2011
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ix, 426 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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Taaffe explores how and why Marshall selected the Army's commander during World War II. He also critiques the performance of these generals during the war, and reveals the extent to which their actions served as stepping stones to advancement.
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St. Martin's Press
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[2016]
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xx, 282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's most significant kills - none of which have been told before. Each mission is an in-depth look at a new element of eliminating the enemy, from intel to luck, recon to weaponry. Told in a thrilling narrative, this is also a heart-pounding true story of some of The Reaper's boldest missions including the longest shot of his military career on a human...
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"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British...
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The cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point, are intimately twined with the country?s history. The graduating class of 1915, the class the stars fell on, was particularly noteworthy. Of the 164 graduates that year, 59 (36%) attained the rank of general, the most of any class in. Although Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, both five-star generals, are the most recognizable, other class members contributed significantly to the Allied...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the great cathedral, where he took a shot immortalized by...
10) Spearhead
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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11 CDs (13 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the great cathedral, where he took a shot immortalized by...
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