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Military machinesHanson, Victor Davis
Summary: A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization--sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 HansonScahill, Jeremy.
Summary: Presents an expos of secret war programs being conducted behind the scenes of the War on Terror, revealing the human consequences of night raids, drone strikes, and other unofficial "dirty-war" tactics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.009 SchahTyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.8 TysonManning, Molly Guptill
Summary: While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the lines between truth and fiction, the best defense was for American troops to bring the truth into focus by writing it down and disseminating it themselves. By war's end, over 4,600 unique GI publications had been printed around the world. From Normandy to the shores of Japan, American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBKK 940.53 ManningGladwell, Malcolm
Summary: "In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 GladwellRogerson, Barnaby.
Contents: The crusader prince of Portugal : Henry the Navigator, 1415-60 -- The Navigator's nephew : King Alfonso the African, 1455-81, and King John II, 1481-95 -- The Great Eagle : Mehmet the Conqueror of Constantinople, 1450-80 -- Reconquista : the Crusade of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile against Muslim Granada, 1480-1510 -- Barbarossa : the emergence of the Muslim corsairs, 1480-1510 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.015 RogerEllsberg, Daniel
Summary: The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Senior Fellow and iconic whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers presents an eyewitness expos©♭ of the dangers of America's secret, long-standing nuclear policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.021 ELLS 2017Jerram, Michael F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Galahad Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 JerToler, Pamela D.
Summary: "From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, Women Warrior reclaims lost stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor, debunking the pervasive claim that women do not, and should not, fight"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 Toler 2019Stavridis, James
Summary: "From one of the most admired admirals of his generation -- and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO -- comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.0322 StavridPrince, Erik
Contents: My father's son -- The great dismal swamp -- Columbine, the Cole, and cancer -- The rise of Blackwater -- Inherently traditional -- Bremer and the business model -- The expansion plan -- Fallujah -- Blackwater versus the Mahdi Army -- The rules of the road -- Character counts -- The Fallujah families -- Nisour Square -- Cold and timid souls -- A nightmare and a miracle -- The downfall -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.35 PrinceHegseth, Pete
Summary: "Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.009 HegsethMorris, Benny
Contents: Staking claims: the historical background -- The United Nations steps in: UNSCOP and the partition resolution -- The first stage of the civil war, November 1947--March 1948 -- The second stage of the civil war, April--mid-May 1948 -- The pan-Arab invasion, 15 May--11 June 1948 -- The first truce, 11 June--8 July 1948, and the international community, and the War -- The "ten days" and after --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 MorrisStanton, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 StantCornwell, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CornMacintyre, Ben
Summary: From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 MacIntMakos, Adam.
Summary: "For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.904 MakosHylton, Wil S.
Summary: " From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysteries. For more than sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.542 HyltonHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: "The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 940.53 HooseKershaw, Alex.
Summary: "The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during the Second World War. The leafy Avenue de Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.534 KershaBolte, Mari
Summary: "Tanks are the toughest vehicles in the US military. Explore their armor and tactics, and find out how tanks control the battlefield"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 623.74 BloteNesbit, TaraShea.
Summary: "Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NesbitRichie, Jason
Summary: Traces the development of weapons through the lives of such inventors and their inventions as David Bushnell and the submarine, Samuel Colt and the revolver, John Ericsson and the battleship, Hiram Maxim and the machine gun, and Ernest Swinton and the tank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Press 1999