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  • The Warriors

    Reflections on Men in Battle

    by J. Glenn Gray ...
    Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading ListJ. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he was informed of his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in October 1945, having been awarded a battlefield commission during fighting in France. Gray saw service in North Africa, Italy, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • World War II Memoirs: The European Theater (LOA #385)

    On the 80th anniversary of the war's end, 5 classic memoirs capture firsthand the shock, terror, and courage of the American fight against the Axis powers in Europe"The emotional environment of warfare has always been compelling," writes J. Glenn Gray in his incomparable World War II memoir and mediation, The Warriors. "Reflection and calm reasoning are alien to it." The struggle to make sense of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Promise of Wisdom

    by J. Glenn Gray ...
    The Promise of Wisdom is addressed to all educators. It raises perennial questions about the purposes of education, authority and freedom in the classroom, and the structure of the curriculum. It offers a vision of education in and out of school, of learning and teaching that seeks ultimately to help “reconcile the individual and his world.” In simple, graceful language, this volume addresses ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rethinking Masculinity

    Philosophical Explorations in Light of Feminism

    Series series New Feminist Perspectives
    The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex differences, fatherhood, intimacy, homosexuality, and oppression; the collection also includes new discussions of paternity, pornography, mixed-race marriage, impotence, and violence. Rethinking Masculinity is an ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

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  • The Myth of Sisyphus

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus ... Read more

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  • If You Survive

    From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

    by George Wilson ...
    "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, ... Read more

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  • Stuka Pilot

    Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarded the Third Reich’s most prestigious medal which was specially created for Rudel by Hitler himself, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Shot down over 24 times, Hans Rudel is credited with destroying over ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

    by Albert Camus ...
    The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert CamusA philosophical work exploring the absurdity of human existence. The central essay uses the myth of Sisyphus as a metaphor for life's repetitive struggles and the search for meaning in a meaningless world. ... Read more

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  • Behind Hitler's Lines

    The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for both America and the Soviet Union in World War II

    As the twentieth century closed, the veterans of its defining war passed away at a rate of a thousand per day. Fortunately, D-Day paratrooper Joseph Beyrle met author Thomas H. Taylor in time to record Behind Hitler's Lines, the true story of the first American paratrooper to land in Normandy and the only soldier to fight for both the United States and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. It is ... Read more

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  • Sun and Steel

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them.At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance of his own physical being; the "sun and steel" of the title ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • The Trouble with Being Born

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and ... Read more

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  • Bomber Command

    by Max Hastings ...
    This award-winning classic of WWII military history chronicles the Royal Air Force's bombing campaign against Germany.RAF Bomber Command's air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. The struggle began meekly in 1939 with only a few aircraft—Whitleys, Hampdens, and Wellingtons—flying blindly through the night on their ill-conceived bombing ... Read more

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