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  • Merchant of Death

    Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible

    by Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun ...
    Praise for Merchant of Death"A riveting investigation of the world's most notorious arms dealer--a page-turner that digs deep into the amazing, murky story of Viktor Bout. Farah and Braun have exposed the inner workings of one of the world's most secretive businesses--the international arms trade."—Peter L. Bergen, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know"Viktor Bout is like Osama bin Laden: a major ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blood From Stones

    The Secret Financial Network of Terror

    by Douglas Farah ...
    In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush froze all terrorist assets in traditional financial institutions and money channels. But Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have long followed a diversification strategy that has rendered the crackdown by the U.S. and other governments almost useless. Blood from Stones is the first book to uncover, through on-the-ground reporting, the interlocking web of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Alternative Governance in the Northern Triangle and Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy

    Finding Logic within Chaos

    by Douglas Farah, Carl Meacham ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This study examines different forms of alternative governance in the absence of a strong state presence in the Northern Triangle of Central America—along part of the Guatemala-Honduras border—a region notorious for its soaring homicide rates, corruption, violence, and emigration to the United States. The purpose of the study is to shed light on the complex and interwoven issues that drive the ... Read more

    $50.29 USD

  • Colombia

    Peace and Stability in the Post-Conflict Era

    by Carl Meacham, Douglas Farah, Robert D. Lamb ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This report from the CSIS Americas Program provides a detailed look at the challenges the Colombian government confronts as it moves from providing security to developing rural areas that were previously conflict zones. In particular, the report examines such issues as remaining security needs; land tenure; needed infrastructure improvements; and better governance. In addition, the report offers ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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    Merchant of Death

    Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible

    by Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun ...
    Narrated by Todd Belcher ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    A Washington Post Best Book of the YearRespected journalists Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun tell the incredible story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought. Bout’s vast enterprise of guns, planes, and money has fueled internecine slaughter in Africa and aided both militant Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and the American ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967

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    "Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da Nang. But John Culbertson and most of the rest of Hotel Company were the same lean, fighting Marines who had ... Read more

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  • The Gun

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    Series series A History of Weapons and Warfare
    In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through WWI, Vietnam, to present day Afghanistan when Kalashnikovs and their knock-offs number as many as 100 million—enough for one out of seventy people on earth.At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s ... Read more

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  • The Pentagon's Brain

    An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

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    This Pulitzer Prize finalist provides the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51**.**No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times best... ... Read more

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  • Tuxedo Park

    A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

    by Jennet Conant ...
    A New York Times bestseller! The untold story of the eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses who helped build the atomic bomb and defeat the Nazis—changing the course of history.Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century—Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, ... Read more

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  • Top Secret America

    The Rise of the New American Security State

    by Dana Priest, William M. Arkin ...
    The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In Top ... Read more

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  • Tanks

    100 years of evolution

    by Professor Richard Ogorkiewicz ...
    From an internationally acclaimed expert in the field comes a detailed, analytical and comprehensive account of the worldwide evolution of tanks, from their inception a century ago to the present day.With new ideas stemming from the latest academic research, this study presents a reappraisal of the development of tanks and their evolution during World War I and how the surge in technological ... Read more

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  • The Last Raid: How World War II Ended, August 1945

    by Daniel Ford ...
    While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of the Second World War. This little book, which first appeared in Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine on the 50th anniversary of the war's end, tells the story of those momentous ... Read more

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