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The King at the Edge of the World (Phillips Arthur)Queen Elizabeths spymasters recruit an unlikely agent--the only Muslim in England--for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from one of the best writers in America (The Washington Post) Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carr and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it ... |
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Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France (Hart Stephen A.)A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the military collapse of three modern industrialized armies. On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany launched the invasion of Poland, employing a new type of offens... |
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Train to Pakistan (Singh Khushwant)In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people--Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs--were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only rema... |
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Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of Seal Team Six (Cole Matthew)A hard-hitting expos of SEAL Team 6, the US militarys best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire. The Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate heroes. When they killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, it was celebrated as... |
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Cinemas Military Industrial Complex (Wasson Haidee)The vast, and vastly influential, American military machine has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The US military realized very quickly that film could be used in myriad ways: training, testing, surveying and mapping, surveillance, medical and psychological mana... |
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratroopers Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich (Webster David)David Kenyon Websters memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a ... |
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Architects of TerrorA TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and pe... |
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (Kilcullen David)David Kilcullen is one of the worlds most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced Americas decision to r... |
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The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (Rafael Vicente L.)In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, pol... |
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The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities (Alexander Claire E.)In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London. Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over Asian gangs in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored ... |
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Graveyard Empire: Four Decades of Wars and Intervention in Afghanistan (Feroz Emran)With deep insights into Afghanistans culture and history, this important book traces the chronology of catastrophe and the failed US War on Terror. Operation Enduring Freedom on October 7, 2001 marked the beginning of the so-called War on Terror in Afghanistan, which to date has become the longest ... |
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Sledge E. B.)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 Hanks NEW YORK TIMES ... |
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Contextualizing Security: A Reader (Gibson Tobias T.)Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic subfield within the wider discipline of international relations that examines organized violence, military conflict, and national security. Meant to serve as an introduction to the field of security studies, Contextualizi... |
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Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding (Haqqani Husain)The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan--to American eyes--has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America--to Pakistani eyes--has been a guarantee... |
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He Who Fights with Monsters (Artibani Francesco)On All Hallows Eve, a community struggles under the boot of the Nazi war machine when supernatural forces come to play a part in the conflict! From the artist of the bestselling Something is Killing the Children comes a tale that will send shivers up your spine... Its World War 2 and the struggle ... |
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The Air War at Sea in the Second World War (Bowman Martin W.)Martin Bowmans considerable experience as a military historian has spanned over forty years, during which time he has spent hundreds of hours interviewing and corresponding with numerous men and women and their relatives, in Britain, America and beyond, resulting in a wealth of material on the war a... |
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Hannah Arendt (Swift Simon)Hannah Arendts work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, remains controversial to this day. In the face o... |
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"Team America - World Police" ("Trey Parker") (DVD)Outrageous satirical comedy from the creators of 'South Park', with puppets. In the 'War on Terror' Team America is the United States' first line of defence, an elite unit of counter-terrorist operatives whose adventures take them all over the world - frequently destroying most of it as they go. Whe... |
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River City One (Waters John J.)The hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself. The tale of a man and the memory that haunts him, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war, he has become a man on the edge, quietly ragi... |
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Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts (Bowden Mark)Mark Bowden, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, brings readers into the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work offers a selection of the best of his award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his trenchant pieces in the ... |
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