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 | This soldier's eye view of the 2007-2008 surge in Iraq focuses primarily on the role played by the soldiers of one infantry battalion--the 2-16-- and their efforts to restore order and fight the insurgency. Based in Baghdad, under the command of Col.... |
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 | A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow. |
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 | In November, 2004, a U.S. infantry squad in Fallujah plunged into one of the most sustained and savage urban battles in the history of American men at arms. Ssg. Bellavia and his men confronted an enemy who had had weeks to prepare, booby-trapping... |
 | "The Gamble," the story of Gen. David Petraeus and the American military, reveals that many high-level officials were opposed to the 2003 invasion. |
 | A secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006 forecasted a more violent 2007 in Iraq, contradicting the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush. This book examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth... |
 | In Rory Stewart's THE PLACES IN BETWEEN, the biographical account of the author's fascinating (and potentially suicidal) solo trek across Afghanistan in 2002, he promises his mother that if he survives he'll come home and stay out of danger. However,... |
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