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A journalist embedded with Navy SEALs in Iraq recounts his time on the battlefield and the journey there and back.

After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by military forces from the perspective of the combatants. Veterans narrate what Tim O’Brien calls a “true war story”: one without obvious purpose or moral imputation, independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.

"Since the birth of our nation and the election of the first president, groups of organized plotters or individuals have been determined to assassinate the chief executive. From the Founding Fathers to the Great Depression, three presidents have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley. However, unknown to the general public, almost all presidents have been threatened, put in danger, or survived "near lethal approaches" during their terms. Plotting to Kill the President reveals the numerous, previously untold incidents when assassins, plotters, and individuals have threatened the lives of American presidents, from George Washington to Herbert Hoover. Mel Ayton has uncovered these episodes, including an attempt to assassinate President Hayes during his inauguration ceremony, an attempt to shoot Benjamin Harrison on the streets of Washington, an assassination attempt on President Roosevelt at the White House, and many other incidents that have never been reported or have been coveredup. Ayton also recounts the stories of Secret Service agents and bodyguards from each administration who put their lives in danger to protect the commander in chief. Plotting to Kill the President demonstrates the unsettling truth that even while the nation sleeps, those who would kill the president are often hard at work devising new schemes."--

Understanding the "American Taliban." Provides an intimate exploration of the motivation and beliefs of the radical Islamists and their most famous American adherent.

Michael G. Waltz offers a unique, firsthand account of the American war effort in Afghanistan as he recounts experiences as both a policy official and a Special Forces officer in the Bush and Obama administrations.

Using an unprecedented human rights trial as its lens, The Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to prosecute its aging Dirty Warriors a generation after the collapse of its last military regime.

A Professional Foreigner describes the life of an American diplomat, one often out of the view of the media and the attention of the world, during the last four decades of the twentieth century.

John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco tells the history of the Unaccompanied Cuban Children’s Program, known as Operation Pedro Pan, which brought more than fourteen thousand children from Castro’s Cuba to the United States between 1960 and 1962.

Cold War Radio is an overview of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and how the United States waged the Cold War through international broadcasting.

The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their remarkable stories together into a single moving narrative—one that reveals a disquieting cycle of violence, safety, and loss.

This multilayered biography examines five remarkable women (Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale) who made important contributions to the Union cause before, during, and after the defining years of the American Civil War.

Important military lessons for fighting today's insurgency in Iraq

WWII tailgunner, Korean War jet ace, Vietnam POW, and the only three-time recipient of the Air Force Cross

Provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the key elements and activities involved in the political and strategic negotiating framework that drove the war's military action.

Details how Chechen terrorists are internationalizing their efforts and how they are connected to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network

Dr. Jack Jackson was the Paris physician of Hemingway and Fitzgerald

Examines Haig's continuing controversial role in British national memory

A rare contemporary account of Germany's defeat, free from the whitewashing of decades of reflection

While researching an article on Gen. George S. Patton, Kevin M. Hymel made an astonishing discovery. Browsing the Library of Congress's Patton index, he found lists of photo albums. Opening one, he found photos Patton himself took during World War II, a gold mine of historical photographs of which even Blumenson, Patton's official biographer, was unaware.