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Since the end of World War II, the United States has been the world's pre-eminent military power. Yet it has suffered as much failure as it has experienced victory. The bloody stalemate in Korea, defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and difficulties fighting Iraqi...
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Polity
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2026-04-10
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The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military history, from the colonial era to the present, exploring a variety of connections between war, military institutions, and American society, politics,...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-31
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From the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario.Discover the untold story of America's most powerful military science agency.In this first-ever history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful and most controversial military science R&D agency,...
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Transworld Digital
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2025-09-25
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America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...
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Polity
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2025-07-21
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2024 PEN America E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award FinalistThe "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product:...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-05-30
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize,Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award &Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize.
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-15
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The American Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865, killing nearly 700,000 Americans and costing the country untold millions of dollars.The events of this tragic war are so steeped in the collective memory of the United States and so taken for granted that it is sometimes...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-08-20
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The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot. "A heart-pounding narrative of the courage, sacrifice, and tragedy of America's elite fighter pilots." —James M....
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-01-14
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Three Gold Star women, linked forever by unimaginable loss, share their inspiring, unlikely journey that began on the worst day of their lives.What happens when tragedy knocks on your front door? For us, it was a literal knock, with two men standing in crisply pressed...
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Center Street
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2019-11-05
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Army Ranger and bestselling author Kris Paronto reveals the values and creed shared by special forces for self-improvement and living a purposeful life.When Kris Paronto began talking with civilians about his experiences fighting the terrorist attack on the US State...
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Center Street
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2019-10-22
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THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton, Stratfor Talks' Pen and Sword Podcast'Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's paramilitary activities...this excellent work feels like uncovering the tip of the iceberg ...Highly...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2019-05-16
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Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction booksThe true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.On 12 February, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years...
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Constable
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2019-04-04
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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in AfghanistanIn the early hours of June 30, 2009, Private First Class Bowe...
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Wildfire
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2019-03-12
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The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories defy their legends. In Leaders, retired four-star general Stan McChrystal explores what leadership really means, debunking the many myths that...
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Penguin
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2018-10-23
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Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalistThe Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2017-03-28
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An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first,...
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Basic Books
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2016-11-01
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The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly figure among the greatest achievements of US Special Forces. After nearly ten years of searching, they descended into his Pakistan compound in the middle of the night, killed him, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-05-05
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Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic...
Editeur :
Center Street
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2014-02-25
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THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite, handpicked...
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Penguin
Parution :
2012-09-04
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