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Presidents of War
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0307409600
- ASIN: 0307409600
- ISBN: 9780307409607
- Manufacturer: Crown
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy)
It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how they fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all―the titanic battle for Western Europe.D-Day marked the commencement of the European war's final campaign, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the l... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1250037816
- ASIN: 1250037816
- ISBN: 9781250037817
- Brand: Picador USA
- Manufacturer: Picador
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war."―The Washington Post Book WorldThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943.Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in Novembe... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0805087249
- ASIN: 0805087249
- ISBN: 0805087249
- Brand: Holt Paperbacks
- Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Majestic... Atkinson's achievement is to marry prodigious research with a superbly organized narrative and then to overlay the whole with writing as powerful and elegant as any great narrative of war." ―The Wall Street JournalIn An Army at Dawn―winner of the Pulitzer Prize―Rick Atkinson provided an authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa during World War II. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome.The... [Read More]
- ASIN: 080508861X
- ASIN: 080508861X
- ISBN: 9780805088618
- Brand: Henry Holt
- Manufacturer: Henry Holt
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The Guns of August
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became. Tuchman masterfully portrays this transition from 19th to 20th Century, focusing on the turning point in the year 1914: the month leading up to the war and the first month of the war. With fine attention to detail, she reveals how and wh... [Read More]
- ASIN: B0018O22QC
- ASIN: B0018O22QC
- Brand: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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The Liberation Trilogy Boxed Set
The definitive chronicle of the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II, Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy is now together in one boxed setFrom the War in North Africa to the Invasion of Normandy, the Liberation Trilogy recounts the hard fought battles that led to Allied victory in Second World War. Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Rick Atkinson brings great drama and exquisite detail to the retelling of these battles and gives life to a cast of characters, from the Allied leaders to military rifleman in combat. His accomplishment is monumental: the Liberation... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1627790594
- ASIN: 1627790594
- ISBN: 1627790594
- Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
From a childhood survivor of the Camdodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0060856262
- ASIN: 0060856262
- ISBN: 0060856262
- Brand: Harper Perennial
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom HanksNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting a... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0891419195
- ASIN: 0891419195
- ISBN: 0891419195
- Brand: Sledge, E. B.
- Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (The American Revolution Series)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book ReviewThe thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition. In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French na... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0525426760
- ASIN: 0525426760
- ISBN: 0525426760
- Manufacturer: Viking
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." ―San Francisco ChronicleOn the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible―through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and e... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0393343413
- ASIN: 0393343413
- ISBN: 0393343413
- Brand: Brand: W. W. Norton n Company
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks."Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like coun... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0307339378
- ASIN: 0307339378
- ISBN: 0307339378
- Brand: Bageant, Joe
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
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Eisenhower: Soldier and President (The Renowned One-Volume Life)
Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower's magnificent leadership as Allied Supreme Commander. Ambrose's recounting of Eisenhower's presidency, the first of the Cold War, brings to life a man and a country struggling with issues as diverse as civil rights, atomic weapons, communism, and a new global role. Along the way, Ambrose foll... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0671747584
- ASIN: 0671747584
- ISBN: 9780671747589
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War
The Krupp family were the premier German arms manufacturers from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II, producing artillery pieces and submarines that set the standard for effectiveness. This book relates the history of this influential company.
- ASIN: 0316529400
- ASIN: 0316529400
- ISBN: 0316529400
- Brand: Back Bay Books
- Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Operation Red Dawn : And the Siege of Europe (World War III Series Book 3)
From Top 100 Amazon Best Selling Authors...Is America vulnerable to an attack on the homeland?As the Russians launch their invasion of Europe, the Chinese bring the war to the shores of America. With the US military heavily engaged in Europe and clean up operations in the Middle East, American forces are stretched thin. Will Alaska fall?Operation Red Dawn is the third book in this fast-paced World War III series. If you like techno-military thrillers, fast paced combat action and believable scenarios then you’ll love this novel.Will Japan, America’s lone Asian ally, stand with America in h... [Read More]
- ASIN: B01LZ9VDWE
- ASIN: B01LZ9VDWE
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Old Hickory: The 30th Division: The Top-Rated American Infantry Division in Europe in World War II
The best U.S. division at war, from Normandy to the Bulge and beyondThe 30th Infantry Division, drawn from the hill country of Tennessee and the Carolinas, was regarded during World War II as the cream of the crop of U.S. fighting units. The Germans agreed, calling the division “Roosevelt’s SS” for its tenacity and skill. The 30th fought in Normandy, along the Siegfried Line (where it conducted “the perfect infantry attack”), at the Battle of the Bulge, and in the final operations inside Germany. Baumer relies on primary sources to tell the story of this remarkable unit and its men i... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0811716252
- UPC: 011557016253
- ASIN: 0811716252
- ISBN: 0811716252
- Brand: STACKPOLE
- Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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The Guns of August : The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
A definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and
- UPC: 2622905
- Rating: 4.404
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The Guns of August : The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
A definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and
- UPC: 469506
- Rating: 4.404
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The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War (Paperback)
Books : The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War
- UPC: 691458156
- Rating: 4.404
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The Thompson Submachine Gun : From Prohibition Chicago to World War II
The Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun developed an almost iconic status during the 20th century. It had an unusual beginning, for it was developed during the dying days of World War I as a
- UPC: 13368627
- Rating: 4.0
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The German 88 : The Most Famous Gun of the Second World War
The German 88 mm guns became the most famous and feared artillery pieces of the Second World War. As well as a detailed technical description of the gun and its development, this book features vivid
- UPC: 20892435
- Rating: 4.0
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A Withering Fire: American Machine Gun Battalions in World War I - eBook
A Withering Fire is the definitive history of American machine gun battalions in World War I. It describes the creation of these battalions, their training, equipment, and combat employment through official documents and firsthand accounts
- UPC: 217986654
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German Machine Guns in the Second World War - eBook
German Machine Guns of the Second World War is a highly illustrated record of the German war machine between 1939 – 1945. Many of the photographs, all from the authors collection, come originally from the
- UPC: 775319122
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Railway Guns of World War I
An accessible, authoritative illustrated history of the huge railway guns that bombarded the Western Front in World War
- UPC: 55519003
- Color: Multicolor
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Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II : PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS
9781782007944
- UPC: 28906459
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Railway Guns of World War II - eBook
World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development programme saw the
- UPC: 877331103
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