2006
Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
by Matthew Currier Burden
Sep 2006
 (14 reviews) List: $15.00
304 pages
The Blog of War provides an uncensored, intimate, and authentic version of life in the war zone. Dozens of voices come together in a wartime choir that conveys better than any second-hand account possibly can what it is like to serve on the front lines. (back cover)
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Five Friends, 20,000 Enemy Troops, & the Secret That Could Have Changed the Course of the Cold War
by Barbara Masin
Aug 2006
 (2 reviews) List: $29.95
382 pages
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The Battle for An Nasiriyah
by Richard S. Lowry
Jun 2006
(13 reviews) List: $24.95
448 pages
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How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths
by Glenn Reynolds
Mar 2006
 (29 reviews) List: $24.99
272 pages
| 2005
Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
by Michelle Malkin
Oct 2005
 (229 reviews) List: $27.95
256 pages
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The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel C. Fick
Oct 2005
(95 reviews) List: $25.00
384 pages
My favorite book about the military. Fick's book is really about the distance between the ideals of a martial life and the reality of a military career.
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Killing Time in Iraq
by Colby Buzzell
Oct 2005
(56 reviews) List: $25.95
368 pages
Both unflinchingly critical of the military, himself, and the Iraqis and strongly supporting the fight, Colby Buzzell brings the human side to the War on Terror.
It's well worth the price.
| 2004
The Secret History of the Special Forces
by Linda Robinson
Oct 2004
(27 reviews) List: $26.95
388 pages
The book isn't about the Masters of Chaos. It's about the Masters of the profession of unconventional warfare who turn chaos into order (like herding cats). It's a great read and really humanizes Special Forces Soldiers. In other words, they have fears and doubts, and make mistakes but continue on fighting the War on Terror.
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by Evan Wright
Jun 2004
(129 reviews) List: $24.95
368 pages
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The Inside Story of the Search and Capture
by Robin Moore
Feb 2004
 (23 reviews) List: $24.95
283 pages
Great read.
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2003
A Military History of the First War With Iraq
by Richard S. Lowry
Nov 2003
(5 reviews) List: $31.95
312 pages
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by Neal Stephenson
Sep 2003
 (283 reviews) List: $27.95
944 pages
I haven't started Quicksilver, yet. I keep hearing it's great...after the thousandth page or so of background info. I don't know if I can make the committment.
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by Eugene Franklin Clark
May 2003
(7 reviews) List: $14.95
336 pages
This book was published after the author died of natural causes. His widow found stacks of handwritten notes about a secret operation behind the lines to organize Koreans trapped around Inchon to help with the coming invasion (gather data and support with the enemy all around you). She put it together and got the story published. It's a bit rough in the flow, but it's a true story...and it's a very good one.
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by Robin Moore
Mar 2003
(93 reviews) List: $24.95
400 pages
Good book on modern warfare.
| 2002
by Neal Stephenson
Nov 2002
(781 reviews) List: $7.99
1168 pages
I love it!
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2000
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh
Aug 2000
(223 reviews) List: $15.95
432 pages
If you liked how Neal Stephenson made the math of code breaking fun and easy to understand in Cryptonomicon, you'd like the Code Book. It's the history of code making and code breaking with great analogies for people like me to understand complex problems and their mathematical solutions.
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by Neal Stephenson
May 2000
(474 reviews) List: $14.00
480 pages
| 1998
Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces
by Anna Simons
May 1998
(15 reviews) List: $6.99
256 pages
What happens when a Social Anthropologist wants to learn want makes Special Forces Soldiers tick? Well, she found out and then she married one! This difficult-to-find book dwells more on how Special Forces teams work, the team member dynamics, the stress, etc.
| 1996
by Sun-tzu,
Sun Pin,
Sun Pin,
Mei-Chun Lee Sawyer
May 1996
(8 reviews) List: $35.00
304 pages
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