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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips... -
![Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano]()
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself.Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he’s about to die... -
![Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman]()
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
![Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote]()
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHistorian/novelist Foote's masterly work has been culled from his critically acclaimed three-volume narrative of the Civil War... -
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![Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman]()
Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe former National Security Council staffer who testified against President Trump during his impeachment proceedings early this year is planning to publish a memoir detailing his experience... -
![Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk]()
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccount of war in the late-20th century both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade... -
![Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein]()
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless... -
![The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke]()
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq,” (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing ), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle... -
![Tough As They Come by Travis Mills, Marcus Brotherton]()
Tough As They Come by Travis Mills, Marcus Brotherton
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier's story. Thousands of soldiers die year to defend their country... -
![Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer]()
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRichard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America’s greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous foreign policy... -
![Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon]()
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of the New York Times best seller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan - including Ashley White, a beloved soldier who died serving her country's cause... -
![The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan]()
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe freshman book of New York Times Bestselling Author of The End of the World is Just the Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years .Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system... -
![Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History]()
Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnne Frank * * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet. Anne Frank’s story is definitely a tragic one; every aspect of it is steeped in the tragedy of the Holocaust... -
![The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein]()
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of PalestineIsrael’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies...Categorized as:
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![Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć by Wojciech Tochman]()
Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDzisiaj narysujemy śmierć to reporterska opowieść o tym, jakie konsekwencje niesie ludobójstwo nie tylko dla jego sprawców i ofiar, ale także dla nas – świadków. Tochman wikła czytelników w cierpienie swoich bohaterów, a każdy z nich jest ze swoją historią konkretny, pojedynczy, wyjątkowy... -
![Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather]()
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTales from the front lines of 60 years of television.Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater... -
![The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva]()
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMost people, upon hearing gunfire, would run away and hide. Conflict photojournalists have the opposite reaction: they actually look for trouble, and when they find it, get as close as possible and stand up to get the best shot... -
![The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen by Brandon Webb, John David Mann]()
The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America's Deadliest Marksmen by Brandon Webb, John David Mann
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF. Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S... -
![1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof]()
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe author's research leads to some surprising conclusions. Documents from foreign ministries, and notes and memoranda from British, French, Italian and American leaders, ministers, diplomats and military commanders, prove that quite a number of countries were involved in instigating World War II. Interconnections, hitherto overlooked, are made clear... -
![When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini]()
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRuntime: 19 hours and 33 minutes, read by the author, Edoardo Ballerini, and a full castFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World War II... -
![The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler]()
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Napoleonic Wars were nothing if not complex -- an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat... -
![What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood]()
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops...Categorized as:
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![Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick]()
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war... -
![In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum]()
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMarie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. With fierce compassion and honesty, she reported from the most dangerous places in the world, fractured by conflict and genocide, going in further and staying longer than anyone else... -
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![The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal by William J. Burns]()
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal by William J. Burns
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presidents and ten Secretaries of State, an impassioned argument for renewing diplomacy as the tool of first resort in American statecraft.Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of his generation... -
![زندگی جنگ و دیگر هیچ by Oriana Fallaci]()
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![The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg]()
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the awful dangers of America’s hidden, fifty-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.When former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top secret documents related to America’s nuclear program in the 1960s... -
![Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings]()
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals the terrible human cost that this battle exacted... -
![The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey]()
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGeorge Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America , recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure the White House Situation Room.No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room... -
![The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War by Don H. Doyle, Adam Grupper]()
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War by Don H. Doyle, Adam Grupper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance—that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed “perish from the earth...
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