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  • Heart for the Fight

    A Marine Hero's Journey from the Battlefields of Iraq to Mixed Martial Arts Champion

    by Brian Stann, John R. Bruning ...
    The champion former MMA fighter recounts his time on the Naval Academy football team, his service with the Marines in Iraq, and his career in the ring.Heart for the Fight is the story of Brian Stann, a kid from the wrong side of Scranton who made it to the Naval Academy, played linebacker for the Navy football team, became a Marine officer, graduated first in his infantry officer class, led his ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

    by Patrick Cockburn ...
    The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year AwardBorn of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in the Middle East. By combining religious fanaticism and military prowess, the new self-declared caliphate poses a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New Dawn

    The Battles for Fallujah

    by Richard S. Lowry ...
    This award–winning "powerful narrative history" presents a vividly detailed chronicle of grueling combat operations in Fallujah during the Iraq War ( Midwest Book Review).Few places are as closely associated with blood, sacrifice, and valor as the ancient city Fallujah, forty miles west of Baghdad. This sprawling concrete jungle was the scene of two major U.S. combat operations in 2004. The first, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Road Home

    A Story of War and Family

    by Martha Raddatz ...
    ABC News’ Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism, hope, and heartbreak in her account of “Black Sunday”—a battle during one of the deadliest periods of the Iraq War.The First Cavalry Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on Sunday April 4, 2004. Over 7,000 miles away, their families awaited the news for forty-eight hellish hours—expecting ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Combat and Other Shenanigans: Tales of the Absurd from a Deployment to Iraq

    by Piers Platt ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWar is hell…but sometimes it’s also funny as hell.Combat and Other Shenanigans is Lieutenant Piers Platt’s firsthand account of his year as a cavalry platoon leader in Iraq. Wry, action-packed, and poignant, Combat and Other Shenanigans is the absurd-but-true story of the antics the world’s finest soldiers get up to when no one high-ranking is watching. ... Read more

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  • We Were One

    Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

    by Patrick K. O'Donnell ...
    "Here in these gripping pages is the Iraq War's fiercest battle, seen from the adrenaline-charged vantage of a few Marine buddies." —Hampton Sides, New York Times–bestselling authorFive months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Axis of Deceit

    The Extraordinary Story of an Australian Whistleblower

    by Andrew Wilkie ...
    In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia. Before he was a politician, however, Wilkie was Australia’s most talked-about whistleblower.In March 2003, Wilkie resigned from Australia’s peak intelligence agency in protest over the looming war ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Knife Fights

    A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice

    by John A. Nagl ...
    From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in WashingtonWhen John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that America’s military superiority meant that the age of conventional combat was nearing an end. Nagl was an early convert ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Tell Me How This Ends

    General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq

    by Linda Robinson ...
    After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war.Linda Robinson conducted extensive interviews with Petraeus and his subordinate commanders and spent weeks with key U.S. and Iraqi divisions ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Through Veterans' Eyes

    by Larry Minear ...
    As of early 2010, more than two million U.S. troops have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the American public is neither much engaged in the issues of these two wars nor particularly knowledgeable about the troops experiences, which have ranged from positive and energizing to searing and debilitating. Based on scores of interview--some culled from the Library of Congress Veterans History ... Read more

    $21.95 USD

  • The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution

    by Keith L. Shimko ...
    Many saw the United States' decisive victory in Desert Storm (1991) as not only vindication of American defense policy since Vietnam but also confirmation of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). Just as information-age technologies were revolutionizing civilian life, the Gulf War appeared to reflect similarly profound changes in warfare. A debate has raged ever since about a contemporary RMA ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Big Red One

    America's Legendary 1st Infantry Division, Centennial Edition, 1917-2017

    by First Division Museum at Cantigny ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    “No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great— Duty First!” For a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the wars of the 21st century, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this comprehensive history of America’s 1st Infantry Division, James Scott Wheeler chronicles its major combat engagements and peacetime duties during its ... Read more

    $48.99 USD