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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor by Clinton Romesha
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe only comprehensive, firsthand account of the thirteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell "'It doesn't get better... -
![Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan]()
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It’s a captivating story about what’s worth fighting for, an antidote to cynicism that will make you believe again... -
![Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch]()
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine—a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump. Marie Yovanovitch was at the height of her diplomatic career when it all came crashing down... -
![Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones]()
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation...Categorized as:
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![Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD by Jason Kander]()
Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD by Jason Kander
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about impossible choices—and how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the greatest decision of all. “A truly special book... -
![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... -
![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... -
![The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser]()
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCo-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world... -
![Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home by Mondiant Dogon, Jenna Krajeski]()
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home by Mondiant Dogon, Jenna Krajeski
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus • A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection • Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingA stunning and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate for displaced people around the worldOne day when... -
![Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi]()
Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLike Dreamers by Yossi K. Halevi has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher... -
![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... -
![Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie]()
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA gripping new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the crowd of journalists, Cabinet Ministers and well-wishers waiting at Heston airfield... -
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![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... -
![Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President by Jonathan Darman]()
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President by Jonathan Darman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis revealing biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how one of the most consequential leaders in American history found his true self in his searing struggle with polio--emerging from illness with a strength and wisdom he would use to inspire the world.In popular memory, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the quintessential political “natural... -
![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... -
![Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins]()
Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic.Authoritative, personal, and vividly written, Romney: A Reckoning is a revealing account of Mitt Romney’s life... -
![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 Second Amendment:: Preserving the Inalienable Right of Individual Self-Protection by David Barton]()
The Second Amendment:: Preserving the Inalienable Right of Individual Self-Protection by David Barton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Second Amendment to the Constitution, a protection of the ownership of firearms, has become the source of heated controversy in recent years. Learn about the Founders' views on this important freedom and their solutions for averting the plague of violence that has disrupted communications... -
![Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman, Michael Kammen]()
Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman, Michael Kammen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman won his second Pulitzer Prize for his new and dramatic reexamination of George Washington... -
![On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley]()
On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMore than any other book of the period, On Another Man's Wound captures the feel of Ireland the way people lived, their attitudes and beliefs and paints brilliant cameo sketches of the great personalities of the Rising and the War. Like many of the Irish, O'Malley was largely indifferent to the attempts to establish an independent Ireland until the Easter Rising of 1916... -
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![The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird]()
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy--from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American PrometheusEver since Ronald Reagan's landslide win in November 1980, pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's single term in the White House a failed presidency... -
![The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President by Noah Feldman]()
The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President by Noah Feldman
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of... -
![Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul]()
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States... -
![James Monroe: A Life by Tim McGrath]()
James Monroe: A Life by Tim McGrath
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic.Monroe lived a life defined by revolutions... -
![Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling by Mark S. Smith]()
Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling by Mark S. Smith
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMore than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? This book traces the life of a man who survived five concentration camps, and what he had to do to achieve this... -
![The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 by Donald R. Morris]()
The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 by Donald R. Morris
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns...
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