No Legacy Here. Memoir of a Marine Officer in Iraq, Paperback - Winston Tierney

What happens when a career Marine officer stops believing in the doctrine of the Corps and the official pretexts for war? This hard-hitting memoir ...

Reducere. If the Marines are the few, the proud, ” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Qua...

Reducere. I feel that I have been sleeping all my life and I have woken up and opened my eyes to the world. A beautiful worldBut impossible to live in.These ...

Reducere. A Calculus two exam at 7: 30 a.m. is insane was my thought as I sat down to breakfast in the LSU Union hall. I looked up at one of the TVs just in ...

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Not everyone who serves in wartime wears a uniform. Outside the Wire is a story of one of these men, Danny Toma, a veteran Foreign Service Officer,...

By 1969, the Sikorski H-34 was an older helicopter with severe limitations for combat duty in Vietnam. For pilots like US Marine Lieutenant Rick Ge...

A timely, passionate call for class consciousness in a time of staggering inequality.

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Reducere. This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander's time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic ...

Reducere. This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander's time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic ...

Cartography is the story of Katherine Schifani's experience as a gay woman serving as a counterterrorism advisor in Iraq in 2011, surrounded by str...

Reducere. Protecting the most valuable asset worth billions My diary while living on and protecting Iraq's Oil Platform in the Persian Gulf, by Terrence R. W...

Reducere. Now available in paperback Winner of the 2007 American Authors Association Golden Quill Award Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of Americ...

The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq...

Reducere. This is an amazing true story of a female civilian employee of the Army Corps of Engineers in Basrah and Nasiriyah, Iraq. She was riding in a truck...

Cutting through the headlines and spin, this book gives us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - fro...

Reducere. DescriptionColin Dayan has one of the most original minds in America and also one of the fiercest. Here for the first time she turns her rigorous i...

Reducere. When Neil Reynolds was first asked to work as a private military contractor in Iraq, he didn't even know where it was on the map. But the Border Wa...

Reducere. War of Necessity, War of Choice--part history, part memoir--provides invaluable insight into some of the most important recent events in the world....

Reducere. Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy is the story of boots on the ground in Iraq, as seen through the eyes of a tank platoon leader. Baqubah, on the eve...

Reducere. Gold Medallion Book AwardsOn April 10th, 2003, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, faced with the task of seizing the presidential palace in do...

Reducere. "The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. We need more information from those directly involved, and this book provides a ...

The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHT

A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and ...

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Where does fiction begin and truth end? How does the telling of a white lie (adding or subtracting a year from one's age) mutate into a darker comp...

Reducere. Thoughtful, Revealing, Insightful A unique narrative takes us from the sandy beaches of the Jersey Shore and post-war real estate boom to charterin...

The U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP) in Vietnam was an enlightened gesture of strategic dissent. Recognizing that search-and-destro...

Reducere. Born in Mosul, Iraq, to a wealthy intercultural family, Junis Sultan's happy, privileged childhood is abruptly cut short by the start of the Gulf W...

Reducere. From the creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering, " Janelle Hanchett's forthright, wickedly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her...

Lily Hamourtziadou's investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition's 2003 invasion of Iraq provides i...

Reducere. One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathemati...

Reducere. When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of mem...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on "Blood Brothers, " the award-nominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military uni...

Reducere. DescriptionJared McGowen's time as a U.S. Marine consisted of some of the most tedious, miserable, exciting, and terrifying days of his life. When ...

Reducere. For fans of the New York Times bestseller I Quit Sugar or Katie Couric's controversial food industry documentary Fed Up, A Year of No Sugar is a "d...

Reducere. In 1970 Yung Yung arrives in New York City where it is rare to see a young Asian woman outside of Chinatown. Modern Dance icon Martha Graham has re...

Reducere. As a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoo...

In his four decades as a KGB officer, Victor Cherkashin was a central player in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. From his rigorous training...

Reducere. Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy is the story of boots on the ground in Iraq, as seen through the eyes of a tank platoon leader. Baqubah, on the eve...

Reducere. In 1969, at age twenty, Martina moves to San Francisco. She lives in a commune, marries her hippie streetcar driver, and moves away from the city--...

A poetic and unusually constructed memoir, THE SOUND OF HER VOICE, is Sara Gelbard's story of her experience growing up on one of the first kibbutz...

Reducere. I'm So Glad You're Here is the story of a family disrupted by ramifications of a father's mental illness. The memoir opens with a riveting account ...

A groundbreaking account of the effects of everyday racism on the identity and mental health of Black British men, explored through the lens of Hom...

Reducere. Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars is about the life, death and legacy of Louis XVI's tragic Queen, based upon the author's thirty years of ...