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 At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl HarborBest Price: $6.60 I. Subject and Thesis At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor attempts to give... |  The First Day on the Somme 1 July 1916 (Penguin History)Best Price: $10.62 The battle of the Somme has gained such notoriety for what it has "managed" to stand... |  Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (Penguin History) |  1943: the Victory That Never WasBest Price: $86.26 They say hindsight is always 20/20. Whoever they are, they haven't read much alternate... |  A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk TragedyBest Price: $6.76 A Time to Die tells the story, as far as it was known prior to publication of the official... |
 Flags of Our FathersBest Price: $11.94 James Bradley is to be commended for telling the rich history of his Navy father and Marine Corp... |  Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her SurvivorsBest Price: $14.00 This was one of those "why not?" choices of reading. I knew of the heavy cruiser... |  Guns of August Guns of AugustOf course the writing is amazing but this edition is a wonderful possession. The book I bought... |  Immediate Action"The Story They Didn't Want You to Hear" Andy McNab gripped more than two and a... |  One Hundred Days |
 A Day in the Life of CanadaBest Price: $28.88 When this book's photos were being shot on June 8th, 1986, I was a boy in Soviet Union. The... |  Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945 |  Crusade - The Untold Story of The Gulf War |  British Battles: Life on the Front Lines of HistoryBest Price: $60.00 This text brings the past to life with photographs of battles in British history, re-enacted by... |  Despatches From KargilBest Price: $6.54 This was the best book I've read on the Kargil war, which brought India and Pakistan close... |
 Nuremberg (tie-in): TNT tie-in editionBest Price: $1.94 For me this volume functioned as a sequel to William L. Shirer's THE RISE AND FALL OF THE... |  Pearl Harbor Is Burning!: A Story of World War II (Once Upon America)Best Price: $2.59 The story "Pearl Harbor is Burning!" is about a friendship between two boys... |  The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg (Novel)Best Price: $4.79 Orion Howe is a young boy who wants to put his drumming knowledge to good use. Disobeying his... |  The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30)Best Price: $7.50 Livy prefaces book XXI as follows (in de Sélincourt's translation): "It was... |  Agricola and the Germania (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.42 A newly revised edition of two seminal works on Imperial Rome Undeniably one of Rome's... |
 The Penguin Encyclopedia of Modern Warfare (Reference Books)Best Price: $137.07 This is a one-volume guide to the dramatic events and developments in warfare over the last 150... |  The Nuremberg Raid |  Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War. Ian KershawBest Price: $21.00 Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique... |  The Gulf War Did Not Take PlaceBest Price: $10.94 No one can lack commonsense as much as an intellectual, especially a leftist one, and perhaps... |  Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for GalvestonBest Price: $17.25 This is a true, factual account of how a handful of Texans recaptured the Port of Galveston... |
 Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian PowerBest Price: $3.59 This book is an example of how embarrassing it can be for an author to go out on a limb with his... |  A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (Yale Library of Military History)Best Price: $15.69 EDIT of 21 Feb 2010: A colleague in COINSOC has pointed out that I missed one key aspect of... |  Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933Best Price: $12.00 powerfully argued, vividly written and meticulously documented, "Hitler's Thirty... |  Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral HistoryBest Price: $5.89 I have always enjoyed oral histories of warfare and this one told from the German point of view... |  Pearl Harbor : Final JudgementBest Price: $2.99 This book is misnamed, but otherwise an outstanding and essential work regrading the causes of... |
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 The ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAMIn the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be... |  The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789Best Price: $113.32 |  Inside Soviet Military IntelligenceBest Price: $25.49 The Cold War - Dr. Strangelove , The Soviet Union versus NATO, 'duck and cover', etc. ... |  Complete Idiot's Guide to Submarines (The Complete Idiot's Guide)Best Price: $242.86 For anyone who fondly remembers first seeing classic sub movies like Run Silent, Run Deep,... |  Seasons of War: The Ordeal of the Confederate Community, 1861-1865Best Price: $20.00 This book is a great find for anyone desiring to get the southern civilian's perspective on... |
 NAPOLEONIC UNIFORMS VOLUME I |  Decision in NormandyBest Price: $14.05 It may not be the definitive account of Normandy that his two other books are but its definitely... |  The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918. Sean McMeekinBest Price: $10.29 This title is winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. "Sean McMeekin has written a... |  Eye-deep in Hell: The Western Front 1914-1918 (Penguin Classic Military History) |  Dictionary of the Third Reich (Penguin Classic Military)This accessible and authoritative dictionary provides a full background to the rise of Nazism... |
 The World Crisis 1911-1918 (Penguin Classics) |  The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms RaceBest Price: $2.84 Robert Oppenheimer led the country's World War II Manhattan Project to develop the atomic... |  The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American RevolutionBest Price: $26.98 Having lived in New York City all my life I am surprised it took so long for someone to write a... |  Let Me GoBest Price: $0.94 Let Me Go is one of the most un-put-down-able books I've ever read. Though in general my... |  The Third Reich in PowerBest Price: $12.49 This is the middle volume of a Nazi trilogy. Part 1 is the way to power, part 3 is the war. The... |
 Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the WorldBest Price: $3.00 Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed The World by Roy Adkins Bought it a couple... |  We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang- The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam |  Human Factors in Mechanized WarfareBrigadier Simpkin talks about the un-thinkable; what appens when a human being goes to war in an... |  Battlefield Weapons Systems and Technology |  Battle for White Russia: The Destruction of Army Group Centre, June 1944Best Price: $337.50 Gerd Niepold was the 1st General Staff Officer of 12. Panzerdivision when the war against the... |
 Five War Zones: The Views of Local Military Leaders |  A Violent Peace: Global Security After the Cold War |  Fighting Vehicles (Brassey's New Battlefield Weapons Systems and Technology Series, Volume 7)Best Price: $69.99 This updated edition concentrates on armoured fighting vehicles, both wheeled and tracked.... |  Red Thrust: Attack on the Central Front Soviet Tactics and Capabilities in the 1990sThis is the first book I ever picked up dealing the Soviet Army (after World War II) and I was... |  Way It Was: Pearl Harbor : The Original Photographs (World War II Commemorative)Best Price: $29.85 Nice collection of period photos related to this part of history. and the written material... |
 Flying Colours: The Epic Story of Douglas BaderBest Price: $225.10 Douglas Bader lost both of his legs in a terrible plane crash just before the start of WWII. ... | A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy Best Price: $6.76 A Time to Die tells the story, as far as it was known prior to publication of the official... | Flags of Our Fathers Best Price: $11.94 James Bradley is to be commended for telling the rich history of his Navy father and Marine Corp... | Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors Best Price: $14.00 This was one of those "why not?" choices of reading. I knew of the heavy cruiser... | Guns of August Guns of August Of course the writing is amazing but this edition is a wonderful possession. The book I bought... |
| Immediate Action "The Story They Didn't Want You to Hear" Andy McNab gripped more than two and a... | One Hundred Days | A Day in the Life of Canada Best Price: $28.88 When this book's photos were being shot on June 8th, 1986, I was a boy in Soviet Union. The... | Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945 | Crusade - The Untold Story of The Gulf War |
| British Battles: Life on the Front Lines of History Best Price: $60.00 This text brings the past to life with photographs of battles in British history, re-enacted by... |  Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Modern WarfareBest Price: $15.95 John Alexander's FUTURE WAR gives us a definitive look at emerging non-lethal weapons... |  The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the CrusadesBest Price: $8.59 The Templars By Piers Paul Read If you are looking for proof that the Templars and the... |  Sea Assault: The Sinking of Japan's Secret SupershipBest Price: $62.66 Originally published under the title "Shinano" For my money, this is the very... |  Three Came HomeI have this original book my father in law had in his library. It has a beautiful cover design. ... |
 Guns Up!Best Price: $4.55 I've read this book five times, twice to my sons. Each time I've read it I have come... |  Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic MissionBest Price: $5.99 Few contemporary stories of heroism are as compelling and immediate as "Ghost... |  The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental MovementBest Price: $2.96 I read this book a few summers ago, and I couldn't put it down. O'Neill's exhaustive... |  The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North KoreaBest Price: $12.95 The Japanese edition's title "The Confession" might be more to the point, although... |  The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and HistoryBest Price: $24.03 I began reading this work of literature in an effort to better understand the Einsatzgruppen... |
| Decision in Normandy Best Price: $14.05 It may not be the definitive account of Normandy that his two other books are but its definitely... | The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918. Sean McMeekin Best Price: $10.29 This title is winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. "Sean McMeekin has written a... | Eye-deep in Hell: The Western Front 1914-1918 (Penguin Classic Military History) | Dictionary of the Third Reich (Penguin Classic Military) This accessible and authoritative dictionary provides a full background to the rise of Nazism... | The World Crisis 1911-1918 (Penguin Classics) |
| The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race Best Price: $2.84 Robert Oppenheimer led the country's World War II Manhattan Project to develop the atomic... | The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution Best Price: $26.98 Having lived in New York City all my life I am surprised it took so long for someone to write a... | Let Me Go Best Price: $0.94 Let Me Go is one of the most un-put-down-able books I've ever read. Though in general my... | The Third Reich in Power Best Price: $12.49 This is the middle volume of a Nazi trilogy. Part 1 is the way to power, part 3 is the war. The... | Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World Best Price: $3.00 Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed The World by Roy Adkins Bought it a couple... |
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