Kitfield, James
Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 KITStonehouse, Frederick.
Contents: War objectives : North and South -- Political environment -- Navigation -- An industrial war -- Confederate Canadian team and mission -- Plots and more plots -- End game -- Courtenay Torpedo -- The shadow war : Union and Confederate secret operators -- The Lady Elgin, a precursor of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 STOSledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)
Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLEVine, David
Summary: "The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.00973 VINChandler, Owen R.
Summary: "Experience the battlefields of Iraq through the eyes of an army chaplain. Army chaplain Owen Chandler tells the stories of the men and women serving our country in combat zones around the world -- a life few of us know, but thousands of Americans experience every day. As an "embedded presence of hope" Chandler candidly describes the struggle to hold onto faith and hope amid the brutalities of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chalice Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHANDLER, OWEN CHASilliman, Sue Imogene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1969
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.344 SillimanBeschloss, Michael R.
Summary: Presidential historian Michael Beschloss uses original letters, diaries, declassified documents, and interviews to bring us into the room and into the minds of a procession of Chief Executives who took the nation into major conflicts, mobilized Americans for victory, and seized greater power for themselves. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, we see these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.00973 BOSMacintyre, Ben
Summary: Chronicles World War II's pivotal deception by two British naval officers who successfully fed false intelligence to the Nazis about where Allied forces were planning an attack in southern Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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Summary: "The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolu-tion centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021