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A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about Americas longest war, foreshadowing the Talibans r...

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THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite,...

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Israel/Palestina Ingen annan del av världen väcker så starka känslor som Israel/Palestina. Alla har en åsikt. De politiska analyserna avlöser varandra. Varför har Israels och Palestinas makthavare så svårt att nå en hållbar lösning? "Mellanös...

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Som ung student reser Petros Tenezakis för första gången till de ockuperade palestinska områdena där han ansluter sig till den internationella solidaritetsrörelsen. Det är en orolig tid. Israeliska styrkor har svept över Västbanken och lämnat områ...

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With an introduction by Kevin Powers. A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. ...

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From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. 'A must for Special Forces fans.' The Sun It ...

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"Vi insåg tidigt att vi inte hade något val. Vi måste flytta till Ukraina och se kriget med egna ögon - och delta i det, faktiskt, på alla sätt ett par författare kan. Så vi gjorde oss av med ägodelarna på Öland, packade bilen och körde. Nu f...

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Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the story of the top secret mission that would reveal the secrets of the SAS to the world for the first time. Their location: Iraq Their mission: to sever a vital enemy underground communication link, to find and destr...

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The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion, reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers.

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The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaeda's suicide bombing campaign in Iraq Kill or Capture is a true-life thriller that tells the story of senior military interrogator Matthew Alexander's adrenalinefilled, "outs...

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Nicholas Murray's The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914. During this period field fortifications became increasingly important, and their construction evolved from p...

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Armies of Sand addresses why Arab armed forces fared so poorly in battle since the Second World War. It explores four different explanations that scholars, soldiers, and military experts have suggested: Soviet doctrine, politicization, underdevelo...

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In a little-known episode of the Vietnam War, the CIA hired Norwegian skippers to command fast patrol boats to land South Vietnamese commandos and combat swimmers on the coasts of North Vietnam. This book will explain who the Vikings were, describ...

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A new, fully uncensored edition of the definitive insider's account of the War on Terror 'A former FBI agent's memoir on the War on Terror is declassified after 9 years' Time 'One of the most valuable and detailed accounts...

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"Alla inser problemet mellan araber och judar. Men inte alla ser att det inte har någon lösning. Det finns ingen lösning. Varför skulle araberna sluta fred? [...] Vi har tagit deras land." Så sade David Ben-Gurion, som så småningom skull...

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The revival of a classic work of journalism which exposes the gap between the official story and reality Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever--and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and "forgotten" even in ...

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On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central - geographicall...

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This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972. Told by a fellow Marine, the account lays b...

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Vad handlar egentligen konflikten i och kring Ukraina om? Det är frågan som den brittiske historikern Richard Sakwa försöker besvara i boken Frontlinje Ukraina. Den är akademiskt pionjärverk som publicerades 2015 men som genom händelserna den sena...

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Age of Emergency examines how metropolitan Britons understood colonial violence in the two decades after V-E Day when "small wars" raged on the frontiers of empire in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus.

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Details the sixteen months of planning and decision making between President Bush, his war council, and key foreign leaders leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime.

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'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Avia...

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The Financial Times Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably r...

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WINNER OF PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS 2017 Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU, the USA and the UN. It has made itself notorious for its violent radicalism and uncompromising rejection of the Jewish state. After its infamous v...

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SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 'Exquisite . . . A genuine, mel...

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Time after time during the Vietnam War, the United States sent Vietnamese spies and commandos behind enemy lines only to have them killed, captured or compromised into reporting back false information. This is a sobering account of the disastrous ...

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The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and ot...

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SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS' AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an...

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John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war. His documentary about a squad of U.S. troops, "The World of Charlie Company," received e...

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