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A member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the history of the United States military while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants-reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir.
In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America's first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered....
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Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe,...
5) Afghanistan
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A startling history of modern Afghanistan: the story of a country caught in a vortex of terror.
Veteran defense analyst and Afghanistan expert David Isby provides an insightful and meticulously researched look at the current situation in Afghanistan, her history, and what he believes must be done so that the US and NATO coalition can succeed in what has historically been known as "the graveyard of empires." Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries...
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Following on from Custom Maid Spin, Peter de Krassel turns his unique international perspective and controversial pen onto the business of war.
In the course of reviewing the conflicts of the 20th century and today, he argues that to end, or at least minimize, the cycle of 21st century violence humanity is inflicting on itself, America must lead the peaceful charge for change. To do so Americans need to learn and understand the reasons for war and...
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Andrej Kurkow findet Worte in einer Zeit, die uns sprachlos werden lässt: Aufzeichnungen aus der Ukraine im Krieg.
Ein Land im Kampf um seine Freiheit
Seit 2014 herrscht Krieg in der Ostukraine. Die Menschen dort taumelten Jahre zwischen Angst und Hoffnung, zwischen Trauer und Glaube an eine Zukunft in Freiheit. Mit dem Beginn des Angriffskrieges der Russländischen Truppen im Februar 2022 verwandelten sich die schlimmsten Befürchtungen in Realität:...
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Unparalleled access to all levels of the Afghan government and coalition forces is the result of John Cook's tenure in Afghanistan. Over the past four and a half years, he has developed an intimate and alarming insight into what has become a hand-wringing quagmire of politically correct, socially and culturally sensitive policies and programs that continue to be implemented, and that can only result in catastrophic failure for the United States, the...
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On September 11, 2001, the unthinkable happened-the United States of America was attacked mercilessly, without warning, by then unnamed terrorists. The World Trade Center's twin towers and the Pentagon, iconographic buildings in the hearts and minds of Americans, were devastated from a clear blue sky.
This second "Day of Infamy" struck at the heart of the United States and changed the outlook of the Free World forever. Within minutes the inferno...
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Political commentator Peter de Krassell contends that globalization was a 19th Century model of economics that was based on scarcity and actually died in the last decade of the 20th Century when the whole World was in surplus.
In this fast paced geopolitical journey across America, China, the Middle East and beyond, de Krassell looks at the history of the major empires of the last 150 years (including that of the USA), their achievements, shortcomings...
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September 11, 2001, is considered the main event, but the changes of the decade go far beyond the menace of terrorism and the war on terror. The technological revolution, the wide use of the Internet, and the advent of social media are just some of the innovations that grew to define the decade. The war on terror and its strong rhetoric hid these phenomena. The purpose of this book is to show the true patterns of change-those innovations that will...
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España vive una crisis sin precedentes que ha reducido los problemas de la ciudadanía a cifras y balances que no cuadran. Una crisis que ha enrarecido un ambiente político y mediático en constante ajuste de cuentas, literal y simbólico.
A pesar de ello, políticos y personajes públicos de todo signo instan a la ciudadanía a superar "particularismos" para unirse firmemente en defensa de "lo que nos une". Lo que se espera, de hecho, es la adhesión...
13) Arms of Little Value: The Challenge of Insurgency and Global Instability in the Twenty-First Century
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This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq's civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery. Transcribed...
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This book explores the ways in which television has engaged directly and indirectly with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. It offers detailed analysis of a number of key programmes and series that engage with, or are haunted by, the aftermath of the events of September 11 in the USA and what is unavoidably through problematically and contentiously referred to as the resulting 'war on terror'.
The substantive part of the book is a series of...
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Shoppers barred because they don't fit the bill, motorists targeted while real villains win the day, health and safety becoming a sick joke and Big Brother putting a dampener on our freedom, fun and fancies. Yes, we have become a country so politically correct that just about everything we do is criminal. The 'Thought Police' that blight every institution ranging from education and energy to councils and churches now have such a rigid rule book that...
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La mano invisible está metida en el bolsillo de los ciudadanos. El capitalismo no se pregunta cómo evitar los ciclos, vive de ellos. Siembra burbujas sin control porque al final se le permite cargar el coste a la espalda del trabajador, gracias a la inestimable ayuda de la clase política más mediocre y entregada al poder económico que ha conocido el mundo contemporáneo. Ya nadie se lanza desde las ventanas de Wall Street ni se lanzará desde...
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Stolac, the town of departure for this book and the site where the author conducted fieldwork, is located in the south-western corner of Bosnia Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia Herzegovina (1992-95) was initially an act of aggression and territorial conquest instigated by Serbian political leaders. However, as the war progressed, it increasingly came to consist of several minor wars, one of them fought in Western Bosnia Herzegovina between Croatian...
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An analysis of how America, through its misguided and bankrupt economic, financial and foreign policies and alliances, has allowed China and its citizens to prosper at the expense and suffering of Americans, who are picking up most of the global economic rehabilitation tab.
The ongoing domestic, foreign, economic and geopolitical policy failures of career politicians in Washington, D.C., financed by their Wall Street backers and executed by their...
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We the Maids, For the Maids, By the Maids - we are the maids that clean up and pay for America's geopolitical mess.
A political manifesto for our difficult and troubled times, Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder is a trenchant analysis of the political, social and moral ills that beset the United States. This is a book written for anyone with a stake in the future of America.
Filled with witty personal anecdotes drawn from his experiences...
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Sinai has never been Israeli, it was Egyptian before the 1956 War but it was invaded by Israel's armed forces, which then had to retreat. During the 1967 War, it was reconquered by the Israelis who, following the peace treaties, had to cede it to Egypt again. In 1973, the Israelis defended it strenuously, this time after having been attacked by surprise, but following the Camp David Agreements, they gave it back to Egypt.
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