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BAND OF BROTHERS

By: AMBROSE, STEPHEN

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 09/01/2002

Seller ID: 97310

ISBN: 074322454X

Condition: VERY GOOD

As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In "Band of Brothers, " Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories...
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GOOD FIGHT, THE

By: AMBROSE, STEPHEN E.

Price: $9.97

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers: 01/01/2001

Seller ID: 198789

ISBN: 0689843615

Condition: VERY GOOD

Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the finest historians of our time, has written an extraordinary chronicle of World War II for young readers. From Japanese warplanes soaring over Pearl Harbor, dropping devastation from the sky, to the against-all-odds Allied victory at Midway, to the Battle of the Bulge during one of the coldest winters in Europe's modern history, to the tormenting decision to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima with atomic weapons, "The Good Fight" brings the most horrific -- and most heroic -- war in history to a new generation in a way that's never been done before. In addition to A...
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BLACK HAWK DOWN

By: BOWDEN, MARK

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Signet: 08/01/2001

Seller ID: 92893

ISBN: 0451203933

Condition: VERY GOOD

On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is the extraordinary minute-by-minute account of that courageous, historic, and brutal night.
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CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE VETERAN'S SOUL

By: CANFIELD, JACK & OTHERS

Price: $6.47

Publisher: HCI: 01/01/2001

Seller ID: 224666

ISBN: 1558749373

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul" will inspire and touch any veterans and their families, and allow others to appreciate the freedom for which they fought. A compelling collection of the true-life experiences of extraordinary men and women in every branch of service, who changed the course of history by their acts of valor in World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War. Their experiences offer a glimpse of timeless history, revealing moments of compassion, bravery, respect and reverence. With chapters on Above and Beyond, The Home Front, The Front Lines, Coming Hom...
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CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR LIBRARY

By: Cong. Medal Of Honor Library

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Dell: 04/01/1987

Seller ID: 223578

ISBN: 0440115183

Condition: VERY GOOD

SHARPE'S HONOR

By: CORNWELL, BERNARD

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin: 01/01/1985

Seller ID: 200607

ISBN: 014029435X

Condition: VERY GOOD

An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive--a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.
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SHADOW DIVERS

By: KURSON, ROBERT

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: 05/01/2005

Seller ID: 114438

ISBN: 0375760989

Condition: VERY GOOD

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery-and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of su...
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