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The Good Soldiers
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David Finkel
Combining the action of Mark Bowden's "Black Hawk Down" with the literary tone of Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers" takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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Jeremy Scahill
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U. S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, ...
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
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Thomas E Ricks
"Fiasco," Ricks's #1 "New York Times" bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. "The Gamble," the story of Gen. David Petraeus and the American military, reveals that many high-level officials were opposed to the 2003 invasion.
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Generation Kill
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Evan Wright
Based on the author's National Magazine Award-winning series in "Rolling Stone," this "New York Times" bestseller is "one of the best books to come out of the Iraq War" ("Financial Times").
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Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
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Donovan Campbell
In this thrilling and inspiring memoir, Campbell recounts his time as a commander of a 40-man infantry platoon and the unit of hard-pressed Marines defined by their leadership, loyalty, faith, and camaraderie.
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The Forever War
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Dexter Filkins (Read by)
A prizewinning "New York Times" correspondent chronicles a remarkable chain of events that begins with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continues with the attacks of 9/11, and moves on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
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Bing West
Bing West provides an in-depth account of the struggle for Falluja during 2003 and 2004--the most intense battles of the Iraq War. From the hundreds of interviews he conducted with those who were there, especially American paratroopers and Marines, West reconstructs a series of events that spiraled out of control, and shows how these were seen by ...
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Thomas E Ricks
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war--and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it--draws on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as absolutely brilliant, this national bestseller examines the numerous self-inflicted pitfalls, miscalculations, and blunders that had plagued the first year of the American occupation of Iraq.
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State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
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Bob Woodward
"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year.'' This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush, including one, ...
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
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Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post, tells firsthand of his encounters with Iraqi citizens, reporting their views of the American occupation. It is clear, in Mr. Shadid's view, that the U.S.'s initial stunning military victory was followed by a post-invasion failure. He balances his views with a recognition ...
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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
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Jim Sheeler
Based on Sheeler's Pulitzer Prize-winning story, "Final Salute" is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the families who continue to mourn them.
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Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
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Kirsten A Holmstedt, L Tammy Duckworth (Foreword by)
In Iraq, the front line is everywhere...and everywhere in Iraq, women in the US military fight. More than 155,000 of them have served in Iraq since 2003-4 times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991 - and more than 430 have been wounded and over 70 killed, almost twice the number of US military women killed in action in Korea, Vietnam, ...
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Hogs in the Shadows: Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq
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Milo S Afong
"In the heat of battle, they have one mission-and they accomplish it one bullet at a time." In Operation Iraqi Freedom, there is a special breed of marine for whom the prey is the enemy-and every day is hunting season. This marine is a HOG-a Hunter of Gunman. These are the gripping, gut-wrenching true stories of those marines in Iraq whose sole ...
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House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
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David Bellavia, John Bruning
A nominee for the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross, Sgt. Bellavia tells the raw, compelling story of how he miraculously survived a brutal tour of duty in Fallujah, Iraq. Eight pages of b&w photographs.
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
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Rick Atkinson
An award-winning military historian who was an embedded reporter in Iraq provides a report from the front lines of the 2003 Iraq war, as troops from the 101st Airborne Division fought toward and marched into Baghdad. Through portraits of, and interviews with, soldiers and officers, and in stunningly good war reportage, Atkins provides an account ...
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
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George Packer
Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by "The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review," and more, this volume recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq.
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
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David Zucchino, Mark Bowden (Foreword by)
The story of the bold assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade of the Third Infantry Division. It was one of the most decisive battles in American combat history, and the biggest armored battle involving American troops since the Vietnam War.
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Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America's Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Chuck Larson, Major (Editor), John McCain (Afterword by), General Tommy Franks (Foreword by)
More than one million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past four years, but fewer than 500 from this group have earned a Silver Star, Navy Cross, or other medal of honor. This collection tells the extraordinary true stories of those distinguished for their valor.
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A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal
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Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen (Translator)
For one hundred and one days Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad. Always in search of a story far less obvious than the American military invasion, Seierstad brings to life the world behind the headlines in this compelling- and heartbreaking-account of her time among the people of Iraq. From the moment she first arrived in Baghdad on ...
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War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
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Richard N Haass
According to foreign policy expert Haass, the first Iraq war following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was both necessary and well-executed. The second Iraq war, the author argues, was a war of choice, as unwarranted as it was poorly conceived and implemented.
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From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
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Jay Kopelman, Melinda Roth
A war memoir that will capture the hearts of its readers, just as one scruffy puppy sneaked his way into the hearts of hardened Marines just when they needed it most.
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Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
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Steve Fainaru
Travelling in Iraq with a group of US security contractors - mercenaries or mercs - a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reveals in gritty detail the men who live by Big Boy Rules. A parallel army lives on the margins of the Iraq war - nearly 100,000 armed men, invisible yet in plain sight, doing jobs the overstretched and understaffed military can't ...
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq
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Colby Buzzell
Trapped amid "guerrilla warfare, urban-style" in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre, absurd, often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing an online web log describing the war--not as it was being reported by CNN or in briefings on Capitol Hill, but as he experienced it.
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A Table in the Presence
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Carey H Cash, LT
The chaplain with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment shares the dramatic firsthand account of how these men experienced God's presence amidst the chaos of the war in Iraq.
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