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  • Afghanistan

    by David Isby ...
    A startling history of modern Afghanistan: the story of a country caught in a vortex of terror.Veteran defense analyst and Afghanistan expert David Isby provides an insightful and meticulously researched look at the current situation in Afghanistan, her history, and what he believes must be done so that the US and NATO coalition can succeed in what has historically been known as “the graveyard of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Russia’s War in Afghanistan

    by David Isby ...
    Series Book 178 - Men-at-Arms
    A comprehensive study of both sides in the Afghan war.In this compact edition, published in the midst of the conflict as it was happening, David Isby examines Soviet forces in Afghanistan during the war of 1979-1989. The origins and conduct of the war and the operational organisation of Soviet forces are discussed, and Afghan resistance and weaponry is also explored.Featuring colour plates by Ron ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Russia’s War in Afghanistan

    by David Isby ...
    Series Book 178 - Men-at-Arms
    A comprehensive study of both sides in the Afghan war.In this compact edition, published in the midst of the conflict as it was happening, David Isby examines Soviet forces in Afghanistan during the war of 1979-1989. The origins and conduct of the war and the operational organisation of Soviet forces are discussed, and Afghan resistance and weaponry is also explored.Featuring colour plates by Ron ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • M60 vs T-62

    Cold War Combatants 1956–92

    by Lon Nordeen, David Isby ...
    Series Book 30 - Duel
    A detailed, comparative look at the design, development, and combat performance of the M60 and the T-62.Designed for the battlefields of Europe at the height of the Cold War, the M60 and T-62 were the premier combat tanks of their day. However, it was in the deserts of the Middle East that they finally met in battle.This Duel title examines the design and development of these main battle tanks, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • M60 vs T-62

    Cold War Combatants 1956–92

    by Lon Nordeen, David Isby ...
    Series Book 30 - Duel
    A detailed, comparative look at the design, development, and combat performance of the M60 and the T-62.Designed for the battlefields of Europe at the height of the Cold War, the M60 and T-62 were the premier combat tanks of their day. However, it was in the deserts of the Middle East that they finally met in battle.This Duel title examines the design and development of these main battle tanks, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • C-47/R4D Units of the ETO and MTO

    by David Isby ...
    Series Book 54 - Combat Aircraft
    The C-47 units of the USAAF were an integral part of some of the most dramatic episodes of the European war: the airborne assaults in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, southern France, Operation Market Garden and the crossing of the Rhine.The mass fratricide off Sicily, the night drop for D-Day and the Bastogne supply missions are also covered, along with more typical accounts of training, formation ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and CBI

    by David Isby ...
    Series Book 66 - Combat Aircraft
    From Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the humble Douglas C-47/R4D carried out missions every bit as strategically important, and as dramatic for the aircrew involved, as those of the fighters and bombers in the vast Pacific/CBI theatres.The C-47's wartime operations paved the way for post-war military and civil air transport, proving that aircraft could safely conduct routine flights from the USA, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History

    From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

    by Thomas J. Barfield ...
    Series Book 9 - Princeton Shorts
    When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Keepers of the House

    by Shirley Ann Grau ...
    Grau’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, about the racial prejudice and long-buried secrets that threaten to destroy a distinguished Southern familyThe Howland dynasty began after the War of 1812, when a young Tennessee solider fighting for Andrew Jackson settled in Alabama. Over the next century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for Secession, helped rebuild the South, and established ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

    An Indian History of the American West

    by Dee Brown ...
    Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribesFirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Zealot

    The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

    by Reza Aslan ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of No god but God comes “a lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus.“Riveting . . . [Reza] Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.”—The New YorkerTwo thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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