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Packing Inferno The Unmaking of a Marine

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If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home — Tim O’Brien

If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home — Tim O’Brien

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82 Days on Okinawa One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle — Art Shaw

82 Days on Okinawa One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Folly and the Madness The Civil War Letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry — Orlando S. Palmer

The Folly and the Madness The Civil War Letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry

Orlando S. Palmer

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The Bremer Detail Protecting the Most Threatened Man in the World — Frank Gallagher

The Bremer Detail Protecting the Most Threatened Man in the World

Frank Gallagher

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Treasure Islands True Tales of a Shipwreck Hunter — Alec Crawford

Treasure Islands True Tales of a Shipwreck Hunter

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Brothers in Arms Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes — Geraint Jones

Brothers in Arms Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

The Happiest Man on Earth The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor — Eddie Jaku

The Happiest Man on Earth The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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Fighting the Night Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer’s Life — Paul Hendrickson

Fighting the Night Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer’s Life

Paul Hendrickson

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Saved A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home — Benjamin Hall

Saved A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Grant and Sherman The Friendship That Won the Civil War — Charles Bracelen Flood

Grant and Sherman The Friendship That Won the Civil War

Charles Bracelen Flood

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

Diana Her True Story in Her Own Words — Andrew Morton

Diana Her True Story in Her Own Words

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Company C An AmericanS Life As a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army — Haim Watzman

Company C An AmericanS Life As a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army

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A Dangerous Country An American Elegy

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Military • Biography & Autobiography

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