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[In this book, the author offers an] account - explosive, shocking, and authoritative - of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq. [The book also offers] accounts of battles such as 2nd Fallujah and Tall Afar, whose names should take their place alongside two Jima and Porkchop Hill on a select list of honor ... Too many American and Iraqi lives have been lost, and too much of America's might and influence has been squandered, for these...
42) Body Work
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The Body Artist allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V.I. Warshawski watches as people step forward to make their mark. One woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man - an Iraqi war vet - leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. She dies in V.I.'s arms and the police move quickly to arrest the angry vet. V.I. is hired...
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"Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling writer, and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann, part of the Ranger unit portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down. These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women who've fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is...
44) Active defense
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Danger never sleeps volume 3
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"In the theater of war in Iraq, trauma surgeon Heather Fontaine was used to being in control. Now back home, life spins off its axis when she becomes the target of a stalker. Can security expert Travis Walker protect her?" --Provided by publisher.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
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The War on Terror has drawn the Army's 10th Mountain Division to the most dangerous parts of Iraq. This book documents that danger, specifically the events of May 12, 2007, when Iraqi insurgents killed four soldiers and an Iraqi translator and, presumably, seized three others.
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MBI Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2010.
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Brian Stann, a 2003 Annapolis graduate and linebacker on the Naval Academy football team, served two tours in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom III and IV, receiving the Silver Star for valor after his unit encountered vastly superior enemy forces. A former light-heavyweight champion in World Extreme Cagefighting, he now fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is also president of Hired Heroes, which finds employment for American veterans....
49) The big nothing
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Neighborhood series (Adrian Fogelin) volume 4
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
℗♭2004
Edition
1st ed.; Uncorrected proof.
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Middle schooler Justin Riggs struggles to cope with major family problems, including a brother who might be heading for the Persian Gulf, but finds an escape in piano lessons and the dream of a romance with a popular girl.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
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This authoritative and gripping narrative plunges the American public into the real and personal story of the United States forces in Iraq, and their successful maneuvers in capturing one of the most vicious dictators of our time.
Hunting Down Saddam contains up-to-the-minute material and provides never-before-heard accounts of the triumphs and frustrations, strategies and attacks, of those who put their lives at risk to track down Saddam Hussein.
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Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top-level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
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In the first memoir from a young soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of what we are doing there. Key, a young husband and father from a conservative background, enlisted in 2002 to lift his family out of poverty. A year later, he found himself participating in a war that was not the campaign against evildoers he had expected. He saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation....
53) Iraq War
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Facts on File
Pub. Date
2005
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Presents a narrative of the Middle Eastern conflict and descriptions of events such as the capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces and the continuing unrest in the region.
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St. Martin's Griffin
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"Trident K9 Warriors gave readers an inside look at the SEAL teams' elite K9 warriors--who they are, how they are trained, and the extreme missions they undertake to save lives. From detecting explosives to eliminating the bad guys, these powerful dogs are also some of the smartest and highest skilled working animals on the planet. Mike Ritland's job is to train them.This special edition re-telling presents the dramatic tale of how Ritland discovered...
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This true account follows twenty-three Marines of First Recon, in a platoon that spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This elite unit, nicknamed "First Suicide Batallion", took the fight directly to the enemy by racing ahead of American battle forces, literally driving into suspected ambush points from the opening days of the invasion until the fall of Baghdad.
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Publisher
Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Includes 32 color photos taken by the author during the month he was embedded with the 82nd in Kuwait and Iraq.
This is a riveting account of the war in Iraq moving north with the 82nd Airborne. Units of the 82nd depart Kuwait and convoy to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its intact bridges across the Euphrates. Boots on the Ground quickly becomes an action-filled microcosm of the new...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Charlie 1-26 confronted one of the worst neighborhoods in Baghdad and lost more men than any battalion since Vietnam. This is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed their lives to change Adhamiya from a lawless town where insurgents roamed freely, to a secure neighborhood with open storefronts and a safe populace. Army Times writer Kelly Kennedy was embedded with Charlie Company in 2007, went on patrol with the soldiers...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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When Sgt. Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were soon fighting for their lives. "Sniper One" is a breathtaking chronicle of endurance, camaraderie, dark humor, and courage in the face of relentless, lethal assault.
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