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Ten true talesBest, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESChivers, C. J. (Christopher John)
Summary: "Almost 2.5 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers has reported from both fronts from the beginning, walking side by side with combatants for more than a dozen years. He describes the experience of war today as it is endured by those most at risk--the camaraderie and profound sense of purpose, alongside courage, frustration, and moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 CHIVelicovich, Brett
Summary: "For nearly a decade Brett Velicovich was at the center of America's new warfare: using unmanned aerial vehicles--drones--to take down the world's deadliest terrorists across the globe. One of an elite handful in the entire military with the authority to select targets and issue death orders, he worked in concert with the full human and technological network of American intelligence--assets,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VELICOVICH, BRETT VELZullo, Allan.
Summary: Five times throughout a fierce firefight, Marine Scout Sniper Scott Montoya spots an injured comrade in the street. And five times Scott disregards his own safety and rushes out into the open, braving enemy fire to rescue each wounded Marine. Staff Sergeant Chad Malmberg and his small band of soldiers are outnumbered ten to one against well-armed insurgents and they're running out of ammo....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.7 ZULStanton, Doug.
Summary: Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 STA1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 958.1047 STA
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.1047 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars StantonRohde, David
Summary: A "New York Times" journalist and his wife share the story of his 2008 abduction by the Taliban, a seven-month imprisonment marked by jihadist fervor, shifting alliances, and frantic negotiations for his release.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 ROHDE, DAVID RODRohde, David
Summary: Invited to an interview by a Taliban commander, New York Times reporter David Rohde and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in November 2008 and spirited to the tribal areas of Pakistan. For seven months, they lived in an alternate reality, ruled by jihadists, in which paranoia, conspiracy theories, and shifting alliances abounded. Held in bustling towns, they found that Pakistan's powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.104 ROHDE, DAVID RohCastner, Brian.
Summary: "When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American forces have been hunting since Iraq, known as the Engineer? In this nonfiction thriller Castner takes us inside the manhunt for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358 CASDonald, Mark L.
Summary: A memoir from a SEAL and medic in which he explores his 25-year career in dangerous combat missions and the post-traumatic stress disorder that developed at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONALD, MARK L DONShaffer, Anthony
Summary: Shaffer delivers an exciting, eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the military's most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martin's Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They met with the author to review changes and redactions that they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 958.105 SHAWest, Francis J.
Summary: Presents an account of a persevering Marine platoon's experiences in one of the most violent districts in Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 WESMurphy, Jack
Summary: "A heart-pounding military memoir from a former Army Ranger sniper and Special Operations weapon sergeant-turned-journalist about the incredible highs and devastating lows of his career."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURLahidji, Changiz
Summary: Over 100 combat missions, 24 years as a Green Beret--Full Battle Rattle tells the legend of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam. Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in Afghanistan. Changiz is a Special Forces legend. He also happens to be the first Muslim Green Beret....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAHIDJI, CHANGIZ LAHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAHIDJI LAHGolembesky, Michael
Summary: The author follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban's grip on the Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 GOLStanton, Doug.
Summary: Drawing on in-country observations and exclusive interviews, Stanton delivers the jaw-dropping tale of how 12 top-secret commandos slip into Afghanistan, kill Al Qaeda fighters, and topple the Taliban.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 STAStanton, Doug.
Summary: Following 9/11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan and rode to war on horseback against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across the mountains and captured the strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Bone-weary, they were welcomed by throngs of overjoyed Afghans in the streets. Then the action took an unexpected turn: the Horse Soldiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.1047 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.1047 STAChesney, Will
Summary: "The powerful true story of a SEAL Team Six member and military dog handler, and the dog that saved his life. Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a member of SEAL Team Six whose life would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHESNEY, WILL CHESummary: The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONWilliams, Brian Glyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 WILBrennan, Thomas J. (Thomas James)
Summary: "A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BREMeyer, Dakota
Summary: A Marine sniper shares the story of his heroism facing a Taliban ambush during which he saved Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors, a victory that resulted from him disobeying orders and assuming command without reinforcements or artillery support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.104 MEYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 MEYER, DAKOTA MEYMills, Travis
Summary: "During his three combat-filled tours of duty in Afghanistan, former college sports star and skilled paratrooper U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills never once backed down from the hardest challenges that came his way. The big, likable guy literally woke up every morning proudly singing the 82nd Airborne song to encourage and motivate the men he led. But late one afternoon in April 2012 while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLS, TRAVIS MILGrossi, Craig
Summary: Tells the uplifting true story of a U.S. Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel America spreading a positive message.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GROSSI, CRAIG GROGates, Robert Michael
Summary: The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014