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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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xvii, 234 pages ; 21 cm
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"The anthology, which features a foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the our wars' generation: Brian Turner, whose poem "Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror...
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The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaeda's suicide bombing campaign in Iraq
Kill or Capture is a true-life thriller that tells the story of senior military interrogator Matthew Alexander's adrenaline filled, "outside the wire" pursuit of a notorious Syrian mass murderer named Zafar, the leader of al Qaeda in northern Iraq-a killer with the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands.
In a breathless thirty-day period,...
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Get the Summary of Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Achilles Trap" by Steve Coll is a comprehensive account of the political and military events surrounding Iraq's nuclear program and the complex relationship between Iraq, the United States, and other global powers. The narrative follows key figures such as Jafar Dhia Jafar, an Iraqi nuclear physicist, and his colleague Hussain...
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When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised were there. They quickly realized no such weapons existed. Instead they faced an insurgency-a soaring spiral of extremism and violence that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.
Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a war. Major-General...
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Camp X-Ray in the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, opened in January, 2002 in the wake of the 9-11 attacks to house alleged terrorists ― off the American mainland, unaccountable to the U.S. judiciary ― in "indefinite detention." Newer and more permanent prisons were later built miles away, and continue to house terrorist suspects today. The United States government does not allow photographs of the military trials at Guantanamo, but beginning...
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Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
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"When General James Mattis took command of the First Division in 2000, he took for their motto a paraphrase of Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla: "No better friend, no worse enemy." In 2003, General James N. Mattis shared a "Message to All Hands," to his soldiers. He shared with them the importance of the mission, the goal to act with honor, and ended with the motto he brought to his division from a paraphrase of Roman general Lucius Cornelius...
109) A journal for Jordan
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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First Sgt. Charles Monroe King keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas.
110) W
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq are featured.
111) Defend us in battle: the true story of MA2 Navy SEAL medal of honor recipient Michael A. Monsoor
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Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
189 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw himself onto the live grenade, shielding his fellow soldiers from the immediate explosion. Michael died thirty minutes later, having made the ultimate sacrifice. As George Monsoor (Michael's father)...
112) Betrayal: a novel
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 12
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"When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xlii, 502 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
Over a thirty-five year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of...
114) Saturday: [a novel]
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident, an encounter that has savage consequences.
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Carolina Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xv, 301 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"A first-person account of the Iraq War, from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team 3 with American Sniper Chris Kyle, describes their legendary unit, “The Punishers,” and provides gripping details of their missions in Ramadi,"--NoveList.
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TAKING BAGHDAD is one of the few histories of Operation Iraqi Freedom written by a Marine who actually served in the war. It covers the twenty-two-day push to Baghdad in 2003, which was was one of the most efficient conflicts in the annals of warfare. This book is for soldiers and civilians, for historians and the young who need to understand war. So much more than facts and figures, Taking Baghdad is a dynamic account of the real struggles of war....
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The 10th Mountain Division is known as the most deployed unit in the U.S. Army. Today the War on Terror has drawn it to Afghanistan and Iraq. To Lieutenant Colonel Mike Infanti's unit fell the pacification of a hellish hotbed of terrorism south of Baghdad dubbed "The Triangle of Death." Of the more than three thousand Americans killed since the start of the war, over one thousand were in this region.
Colonel Infanti assigned Delta Company to the...
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