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Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove (Hardcover - Oct 6, 2009)
Author: Max Cleland Condition: New Dust jacket has slight shelf wear. Brand new, never used. ISBN-10: 1439126054 - ISBN-13: 9781439126059 - SKU: OF04-2899 heart of a patriot. Born and raised in Georgia, Max comes back from Vietnam missing three limbs and is confined for months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Doctors don't give him much hope of living an active life, but through the bonds he forms with other wounded soldiers, and through his own Southern grit, he learns how to be mobile and overcome his despair. He returns home, where he pursues his passion for public service by becoming the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the Georgia state senate. Jimmy Carter then appoints him head of the Veterans Administration. From there he becomes Georgia's youngest secretary of state and ultimately realizes his dream of becoming a U.S. Senator. But during his reelection campaign he is singled out by Republicans, who smear him as "unpatriotic." He loses his seat and begins another steep tumble. A long-dormant case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, awakened after 9/11 by the invasion of Iraq, pushes Max to the brink. Forty years after Vietnam, having reached -- and fallen from -- a pinnacle of power, Max returns to Walter Reed as a patient, surrounded by veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Among them, Max again finds the faith and endurance to regain control of his life. In a memoir free of bitterness but frank about the costs of being a soldier, Max Cleland describes with love the ties America's soldiers forge with one another, along with the disillusionment many of them experience when they come home. He spares no one his humiliations and setbacks in this gut-wrenching account of his life in the hope it will keep even one veteran from descending into darkness. Heart of a Patriot is a story a... List price: |
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Three Cups of Tea : One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time (Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)
Author: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin Condition: Used - Very Good Cover is creased. Slight wear to the cover and pages. Some markings on outside page edges. Text appears unmarked. ISBN-10: 0143038257 - ISBN-13: 9780143038252 - SKU: GJ06-3404 K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit. List price: |
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Politics in the Middle East (5th Edition) (unknown - Oct 1, 1999)
Author: James A. Bill, Robert Springborg Condition: Used - Good 5th edition. Cover is creased. Some wear to the cover and pages. Has some highlighting, writing, and underlining. Page corners are creased. ISBN-10: 0321005376 - ISBN-13: 9780321005373 - SKU: GJ06-3382 the role of civil society, the patterns of leadership, the resurgence of Islam, the role of women, the upheaval in the Persian Gulf, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S. foreign policy. List price: This item qualifies for Free Shipping |
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Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG (Hardcover - May 4, 2004)
Author: John L. Plaster Condition: Used - Very Good Cover, binding, and pages are in great condition. Pages appear unmarked. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear. ISBN-10: 0684856735 - ISBN-13: 9780684856735 - SKU: YB06-4303 SEALs. Highly skilled Green Berets, they were the bravest of the brave, the most highly decorated unit in the war. Chief among their activities was observing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the main North Vietnamese supply route into South Vietnam, and disrupting its operations. SOG warriors secretly penetrated deep into Laos and Cambodia to identify bombing targets, destroy troops, ambush trucks, mine roads, and, in their most difficult assignment, capture North Vietnamese soldiers for intelligence purposes. Operating in the most dangerous conditions imaginable -- always outnumbered, often by as much as 100 to 1 -- SOG commandos matched wits with an un-relenting foe that hunted them with trackers and dogs. They suffered an extraordinarily high casualty rate. Ten entire teams disappeared and another fourteen were overrun and annihilated. Many of the missions run by SOG fighters were rescues and attempted rescues of fellow soldiers and downed helicopter pilots who supported SOG missions. In Secret Commandos, a riveting account of his years in SOG from 1969 to 1971, John Plaster describes his own remarkable covert missions as well as those of dozens of his comrades. He takes readers from his grueling training for SOG to his heart-stopping first assignments to his experiences as a SOG veteran and team leader. Even as SOG's field of operations became more limited late in the war, these accomplished warriors continued to give their all, fighting for each other. List price: |
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback - Dec 28, 2004)
Author: Steve Coll Condition: Used - Acceptable Some wear to the cover and pages. Page corners are creased. Slight staining on a few pages. ISBN-10: 0143034669 - ISBN-13: 9780143034667 - SKU: GJ03-3305 the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Coll details the secret history of the CIA’s role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan. List price: |
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Postwar Japan as History (Paperback - Oct 20, 1993)
Author: Condition: Used - Good Slight wear to the cover and pages. Creased spine. Has a few stray highlights and markings. ISBN-10: 0520074750 - ISBN-13: 9780520074750 - SKU: YB06-4294 changes, such as Japan's extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. A provocative set of interpretative essays by eminent scholars, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Japan and the dilemmas facing Japan today. List price: |
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Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey (Paperback - Nov 28, 1990)
Author: Mikiso Hane Condition: Used - Very Good Slight wear to the cover and pages. Pages appear unmarked. ISBN-10: 0813380650 - ISBN-13: 9780813380650 - SKU: YB06-4293 premodern period, including the establishment of the imperial dynasty, early influences from China and Korea, the rise of the samurai class and the establishment of feudalism, the culture and society of the long Tokugawa period, the rise of Confucianism and Shinto nationalism, and, finally, the end of Tokugawa rule.Although the book is structured around major political developments, Hane also carefully integrates the social, economic, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Japanese history. His revisions incorporate important recent scholarship on this formative period of Japan’s history. List price: |
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback - Nov 1, 1998)
Author: Iris Chang Condition: Used - Very Good Slight wear to the cover and pages. Pages appear unmarked. ISBN-10: 0140277447 - ISBN-13: 9780140277449 - SKU: YB06-4292 has written what will surely be the definitive history of this horrifying episode. The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured it, and of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Among these was the Nazi John Rabe, an unlikely hero whom Chang calls the "Oskar Schindler of China" and who worked tirelessly to protect the innocent and publicize the horror. More than just narrating the details of an orgy of violence, The Rape of Nanking analyzes the militaristic culture that fostered in the Japanese soldiers a total disregard for human life. Finally, it tells the appalling story: about how the advent of the Cold War led to a concerted effort on the part of the West and even the Chinese to stifle open discussion of this atrocity. Indeed, Chang characterizes this conspiracy of silence, that persists to this day, as "a second rape." List price: |
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If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (Paperback - Sep 1, 1999)
Author: Tim O'Brien Condition: Used - Very Good Some wear to the cover. Pages appear unmarked. ISBN-10: 0767904435 - ISBN-13: 9780767904438 - SKU: BD05-2603 morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre. List price: |
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Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback - Jan 8, 2008)
Author: Muhammad Yunus Condition: Used - Very Good Slight cover wear. Pages appear unmarked. ISBN-10: 1586481983 - ISBN-13: 9781586481988 - SKU: YB06-4269 Poverty, this classic work on the birth of microfinance will contain excerpts from the new book. List price: |
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