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1	Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam more books like this by John A Nagl, John Schoomaker (Foreword by) add to wishlist Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife", Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl - a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq - considers the now-crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $11.42! \| SVS
2	Jackdaws more books like this by Ken Follett add to wishlist In wartime Europe, an all-female band of British agents attempt to sabotage a key Nazi telephone exchange. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery more books like this by James R Benn add to wishlist A 22-year-old Irish American cop thinks he's avoiding military service by becoming a general's staff member, but the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower. Dispatched as an "investigator," Billy searches for a German spy amongst the exiled Norwegian government. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Blood of Victory more books like this by Alan Furst add to wishlist In 1940, as Hitler's troops are marching into Paris, a writer named Serebin finds himself in Istanbul, where he is beginning to realize that, despite his fervent hopes, the world really has become a different place. Hooking up with a Hungarian secret agent, Serebin goes to work for the Allies trying to disrupt German supply lines--an eminently ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sins of the Flesh more books like this by Fern Michaels add to wishlist Reuben, Mickey, Bebe, and Daniel. Out of their savage passions, desperate deceptions, and unrequited love, a legacy was born. From the danger and intrigue of the French Resistance to the glitter and grandeur of Hollywood in the 1940s, here is a spellbinding saga that could only have been written by the bestselling author of the TEXAS novels. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.24! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich more books like this by Callum MacDonald add to wishlist It has been said that if responsibility for the Nazi camps can be laid at the feet of any one man, that man is Reinhard Heydrich. Retribution for his violent death included several thousand executions and two villages being razed to the ground. Based on previously untouched archive material and interviews with surviving members of SOE and Czech ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Charlotte Gray more books like this by Sebastian Faulks add to wishlist In the midst of World War II, a young Scotswoman named Charlotte Gray falls passionately in love Peter Gregory, an RAF pilot. When Peter crash-lands in France, Charlotte persuades the British Secret Service to allow her to go there, in disguise, in search of him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War Against Hitler more books like this by David Stafford add to wishlist In Britain during World War II, the Special Operations Executive was created to coordinate sabotage and subversion against Hitler's invading armies. This group used disguise, deception, bribery, explosives--and even assassination--to complete its missions. The intriguing stories behind these remarkable individuals are recounted here. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions
9	Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War more books like this by Colin Beavan, PH.D. add to wishlist The author of "Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science" pens the thrilling, inside story of the secret "special operations" mission that paved the way for D-Day and changed the way America waged war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla more books like this by Albert E Castel, Thomas Goodrich add to wishlist This book talks about the short, savage life of a civil war guerrilla. Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri - and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, "Bloody Bill" played the leading role in the most violent arena of the entire war - and did so with a vicious ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War more books like this by T J Stiles add to wishlist This revisionist biography of Jesse James is highly critical of his "popular bandit" image, and argues that he was a terrorist, whose targets were selected based on his pro-Confederacy sympathies, and whose methods were excessively brutal and violent. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $3.98! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum more books like this by Mark Ryan add to wishlist The exploits of Tommy Sneum, the Danish-born spy who died in 2007, made him a legend in espionage circles. But until now, the full extraordinary story of Sneum's action-packed career as a British-run spy has never been told. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy more books like this by Richard S Brownlee add to wishlist see all copies from $6.50! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Resistance: A Novel Tag: Author of Eden Close more books like this by Anita Shreve add to wishlist An American pilot is downed in Belgium during a bombing mission and is hidden by a young married Belgian woman, a resister in a Nazi-occupied village. The two fall desperately in love, with consequences that test their dearly-held ideas about love and betrayal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantril and His Confederate Raiders more books like this by Edward E Leslie add to wishlist Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (18371865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $5.50! \| SVS
16 view cover	Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War more books like this by Professor Michael Fellman add to wishlist Inside War describes the way the Civil War was really fought in Missouri, a particularly brutal area of conflict. The book examines the effects of the worst guerrilla warfare in American history. see all copies from $7.54! new only from $23.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Under a War Torn Sky more books like this by Laura Elliott add to wishlist The story of 19-year-old Henry Forester, a World War II fighter pilot whose plane is shot down during a bombing raid over France. Now stranded behind enemy lines, Henry, with the help of the French resistance movement, struggles to find his way back to freedom. During his perilous journey, Henry witnesses firsthand the horrors of World War II. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France more books like this by Meg Ostrum, Martha Ostrum (Meg) G add to wishlist Of the thousands of people who escaped through the Pyrenees during World War II, at least one hundred owe their lives to a daring scheme that Belgian Charles Schepens masterminded in Mendive, a remote Basque village near the French-Spanish border. The story of this near-miraculous resistance effort, an epic undertaking carried out in plain view of ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $17.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	Because of Romek more books like this by David Faber add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France more books like this by Max Hastings add to wishlist see all copies from $3.59! new only from $225.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground more books like this by Julia E Sweig add to wishlist Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban underground, the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $18.49! \| SVS
22 view cover	Lieutenant Ramsey's War more books like this by Edwin Price Ramsey add to wishlist After leading the last cavalry charge in U.S. history in 1942, Ed Ramsey joined the Philippine resistance and rose to command more than 40,000 guerrillas. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Clare's war more books like this by Anita Burgh add to wishlist It is 1938. Clare Springer, seventeen years old and estranged from her family, is sent to Paris to complete her education. Relishing her newfound freedom, she's having far too good a time to notice the gathering clouds of war. France is invaded and Clare is trapped, though happy to be so when her French lover Fabien is reported missing. She ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Jack Hinson's One-Man War more books like this by Tom McKenney add to wishlist Jack Hinson never planned to become a deadly sniper. A prosperous and influential Kentucky plantation owner in the 1850s, Hinson was devoted to raising his growing family and working his land. Yet by 1865, Hinson had likely killed more than one hundred men and had single-handedly taken down an armed Union transport in his one-man war against Grant ... see all copies from $19.50! new only from $20.18! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France more books like this by Agnes Humbert, Barbara Mellor add to wishlist A real-life "Suite Francaise," this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in World War II is translated into English for the first time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.30! \| first editions \| SVS

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