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  • Black Space

    The Nazi Superweapons That Launched Humanity Into Orbit

    by David Axe ...
    Orbital fortresses poised to fry entire cities with no warning using giant mirrors. Bombers that take off from Earth, punch through the thin border between the atmosphere and vacuum and take advantage of that lofty altitude to speed across the globe on missions of mass destruction. These and other exotic orbital weapons were under consideration, or even active development, in the early decades of ... Read more

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  • War is Boring

    Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones

    Read David Axe's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century.Street battles with spears and arrows in sweltering East Timor. Bone- jarring artillery duels in Afghanistan's mountains. Long patrols on the sandy wastes of southern Iraq. For four years, war was life for David Axe. He was ... Read more

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  • Shadow Wars

    Chasing Conflict in an Era of Peace

    by David Axe ...
    WarfareÆs evolution, especially since 2001, has irrevocably changed the meaning of war. In the twentieth centuryùhumankindÆs bloodiestù231 million people died in armed conflicts. Battlefield deaths since then have been steadily declining, despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by 2012 less than 1 person in a million dies in war every year. This drastic change has led some academics to label ... Read more

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  • From A to B

    by David Axe ...
    Logistics includes the planning and practice of moving stuffraw materials, tools, finished products, and even peoplefrom one place to another. It carried American settlers over the sparsely populated Great Plains to connect the East Coast to the West Coast and has underpinned our domestic prosperity ever since. Logistics also solidified the global power and influence of the United States by ... Read more

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  • Drift

    The Unmooring of American Military Power

    by Rachel Maddow ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Chains of Gravity

    The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

    The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA.NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.In the 1930s, rockets were all the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Duty

    Memoirs of a Secretary at War

    From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Apollo 11

    The Inside Story

    'Terrific and enthralling' New ScientistFifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong the first man to step on to its surface. He and his crewmates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, were the latest men to risk their lives in this extraordinary scientific, engineering and human venture that would come to define the era.In Apollo 11: ... Read more

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  • Blackwater

    The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

    The “crackling exposé” (New York Times Book Review) of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in America's nameOn September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. ... Read more

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  • Rocket Men

    The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

    by Craig Nelson ...
    A New York Times Bestseller"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."-The Wall Street JournalRestoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket ... Read more

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  • Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West - Volume I

    by Jeff Head ...
    Following great success in the War on Terror, politicians and analysts alike all over the free world thought that future global conflict was impossible...but they were wrongJourney into a future where fundamental Islam sharpens its horrific skills & allies with Red China. In such a future, can the U.S. & western civilization survive?Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West projects a ... Read more

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  • The Finish

    The Killing of Osama bin Laden

    by Mark Bowden ...
    New York Times bestseller: The true behind-the-scenes story of the manhunt for the 9/11 mastermind is "a page-turner" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).From the author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968, this is a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Mark Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded.After ... Read more

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