Military history: post WW2 conflicts books

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The Outpost: The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War

The Outpost: The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan...

Author: Jake Tapper
ISBN: 9780316425223
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Tapper gives the powerful saga of Combat Outpost Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing...  Read More >>

The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet  Fighter Age

The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of...

Author: Rochelle Nicholls
ISBN: 9781922387042
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....  Read More >>

Today Sardines Are Not for Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris

Today Sardines Are Not for Sale: A Street Protest in...

Author: Paula Schwartz (Lois B. Watson Professor of French Studies, Lois B. Watson Professor of French Studies, Middlebury College)
ISBN: 9780190681548
Format: Hardback
$74.95

On Mother's Day, 31 May 1942, a group of women stormed a small grocery store at the intersection of two Parisian...  Read More >>

A Backseat View from the Phantom: A Memoir of a Marine Radar Intercept Officer in Vietnam

A Backseat View from the Phantom: A Memoir of a Marine...

Author: Fleet S. Lentz
ISBN: 9781476682075
Format: Paperback
$43.00

As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer, Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic...  Read More >>

Bound by War: A Memoir of Love, Friendship and Survival

Bound by War: A Memoir of Love, Friendship and Survival...

Author: Todd Lander
ISBN: 9781951985448
Format: Hardback
$51.23

2020 Best Book Awards Finalist - AmericanBookFest.com. Historical Biography Finalist - 15th Annual Indie Excellence...  Read More >>

Limbang Rebellion

Limbang Rebellion

Author: Eileen Chanin
ISBN: 9781783461912
Format: Hardback
$64.69

Between 8 and 12 December of 1962, world attention focused on a surprise rebel uprising that sprang up in northern...  Read More >>

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies and Operators

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret...

Author: Annie Jacobsen
ISBN: 9781529378559
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Agent Orange Roundup: Living with a Foot In Two Worlds

Agent Orange Roundup: Living with a Foot In Two Worlds...

Author: Lt Sandy Scull ,  Cpl Brent MacKinnon
ISBN: 9781634989565
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Agent Orange Roundup is an exposé and poetic eulogy by two Marine combat veterans, both with a diagnosis of terminal...  Read More >>

Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars

Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency...

Author: Barbara Elias (Bowdoin College, Maine)
ISBN: 9781108490108
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Analysing policy documents from nine counterinsurgency wars, Elias asks why powerful militaries have difficulty...  Read More >>

Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia

Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany...

Author: Dan Kaszeta
ISBN: 9781787383067
Format: Hardback
$59.95

Toxic is the first comprehensive history of nerve agents, tracing the spread of these terrible weapons from their...  Read More >>

Against All Odds: The Pakistan Air Force in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War

Against All Odds: The Pakistan Air Force in the 1971...

Author: Kaiser Tufail
ISBN: 9781913118648
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Against All Odds tells the story of the Pakistan Air Force in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Richly illustrated...  Read More >>

Kargil 1999: South Asia's First Post-Nuclear Conflict

Kargil 1999: South Asia's First Post-Nuclear Conflict...

Author: Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
ISBN: 9781913118655
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In 1999, India and Pakistan found themselves locked in another armed conflict. Illustrated with over 100 photographs,...  Read More >>

Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous Nation

Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous...

Author: Anoma Pieris (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367585129
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This ambitious multi-scalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis...  Read More >>

Gendering Counterinsurgency: Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Afghan ‘Theatre of War’

Gendering Counterinsurgency: Performativity, Embodiment...

Author: Synne L. Dyvik
ISBN: 9780367595593
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Gendering Counterinsurgency demonstrates how population-centric counterinsurgency doctrine and practice can be captured...  Read More >>

ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army

ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army

Author: Robert K. Brigham
ISBN: 9780700630578
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Chronicles of The First and Second Chechen Wars

Chronicles of The First and Second Chechen Wars

Author: Ilya Milyukov
ISBN: 9781680530933
Format: Hardback
$527.87

Presented by Russian author and attorney Ilya Milyukov, Chronicles of the First and Second Chechen War presents...  Read More >>

M24 Chaffee, Vol. 2: Chaffee-Based Vehicle Variants in the Korean War

M24 Chaffee, Vol. 2: Chaffee-Based Vehicle Variants...

Author: David Doyle
ISBN: 9780764359705
Format: Hardback
$42.99

The M24 Chaffee was the finest light tank developed by the US during WWII. Utilising the M24 chassis - developed...  Read More >>

Charlie 2-1 Bravo: Memoir of a Drunken Paratrooper in Afghanistan

Charlie 2-1 Bravo: Memoir of a Drunken Paratrooper in...

Author: E.E. Summerfield
ISBN: 9781476682174
Format: Paperback
$28.00

In 2012, Specialist E.E. Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province...  Read More >>

Cyprus at War: Diplomacy and Conflict During the 1974 Crisis

Cyprus at War: Diplomacy and Conflict During the 1974...

Author: Jan Asmussen (Polish Naval Academy, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350171411
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Based on the records from the British and American governments, this book explores why both the British and the...  Read More >>

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Author: William H. McRaven
ISBN: 9781538729755
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies,...  Read More >>

Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi

Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi

Author: Ulf Laessing
ISBN: 9781849048880
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Laessing's fast-paced, on-the-ground narrative reveals what really happened in the run up to and aftermath of Gaddafi's...  Read More >>

Sloviansk. The Beginning of the War: Sloviansk. The Beginning of the War

Sloviansk. The Beginning of the War: Sloviansk. The...

Author: Artem Shevchenko
ISBN: 9789660391024
Format: Hardback
$20.83

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In the Land of the Morning Calm: When Boys Became Men at the Chosin Reservoir--the Epic Battle of the Korean War

In the Land of the Morning Calm: When Boys Became Men...

Author: Irv Sternberg
ISBN: 9798637512188
Format: Paperback
$39.47

They were boys when the Korea War started. Three of them joined the Marines, one enlisted in the Army. On November...  Read More >>

Then A Soldier: A Jewish Odyssey

Then A Soldier: A Jewish Odyssey

Author: Richard G Kurtz
ISBN: 9781629671826
Format: Hardback
$62.00

Then A Soldier is two stories and two histories that are intertwined. On one level, it is a realistic, understated,...  Read More >>

Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir about What Happens After a Miracle

Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir about What Happens After...

Author: Mike Day ,  Robert Vera
ISBN: 9781549159800
Format: Audio
$92.40

The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed...  Read More >>

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