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Read ReviewsA legendary New York Times war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final dispatch: a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer.
by Bill Glose
Published Aug 2022
Read ReviewsFor readers of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Tim O'Brien: Dramatic, powerful, authentic short stories of soldiers fighting a "forever war," in combat and back home.
by Muhsin Al-Ramli
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsOne Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
by Deborah Campbell
Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsIn the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Campbell's frank, personal account of a journey through fear and the triumph of friendship and courage is as riveting as it is illuminating.
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by Christopher de Bellaigue
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsA revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world.
by Souad Mekhennet
Published Jun 2018
Read Reviews"I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel..."
by Phil Klay
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsRedeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
by David Finkel
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsThank You for Your Service is an act of understanding - shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the chilling realities of war.
by Michael Weisskopf
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsMichael Weisskopf, a journalist, was riding through Baghdad with a US Army patrol when they were attacked and his hand was destoyed by a grenade. This book is the story of his treatment and rehabilitation as an amputee, and the stories of the three soldiers who recovered alongside him.
by Thomas E. Ricks
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsA masterful and explosive description of the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants.
by Peter W. Galbraith
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsThe End of Iraq, definitive, tough-minded, clear-eyed, describes America's failed strategy toward that country and what must be done now.
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