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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of In Harm's Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming... more

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    • Tales of Great Bravery and Adaptability Told in a Convoluted Fashion
    • "Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, 'Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give...
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    • Poorly Written, not worth the money.
    • I had hoped this book would be good, as it has a great subject matter. The writing was poor, I had expected more. I don't often leave negative reviews but this book was not worth the money.
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II. Historians and... more

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    • A Magnificent Study of the Battle
    • Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943" is simply a wonderful look at one of the most important and horrendous battles of the Second World War. Beevor illustrates the obvious...
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    • An adequate introduction to Stalingrad...
    • If you've never read anything on this battle before this, you will get just about everything you need to know from beginning to end in exacting detail. The only problem is there isn't enough...
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    • Tasteless pro-German account of the battle
    • Typical Beevor. This book reads more like an excuse to recount tales of Soviet brutality than a serious attempt at a history of the most important battle of the 20th Century and the bloodiest...
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban?the world's most extreme and radical Islamic... more

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    • Great insight into Taliban
    • For anyone interested in learning about the Taliban, this book provides excellent background perspective and insight. Well written and informative, I found that I understood a lot more about how...
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    • An Interesting Monograph on the Taliban, But With Problems
    • The interest in a book about the Taliban is obvious, and Ahmed Rashid brings certain undeniable strengths to the subject: he is a Pakistani journalist who has travelled extensively throughout...
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    • A half quack arm chair expert
    • This fellow is an arm chair quack. He grew up in Pakistan, but that's all about it. Now he makes his living saying cocophony about Pakistan and that region of the world on US TV networks. And with...
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The Places In Between

The Places In Between

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and... more

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    • Gutsy
    • A fearless ramble into war-stricken Afghanistan shortly after 9/11. Only few could accomplish such a feat as Rory Stewart. The dangers are numerous, but he steps these aside and continues through...
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    • Tangible Realism
    • Rory Stewart's The Places in Between is a riveting account of modern day Afghanistan. By walking from Herat to Kabul in the middle of winter Stewart's journey unwraps the indescribable chaos caused...
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    • Total Disappointment
    • This was a truly awful book on Afghanistan. It provided little new information about the country, its people, or its history. The book also was dull and lacked a coherent theme. The best part of...
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission:... more

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    • Ghost Soldiers Must Read
    • I first read "Tears in the Darkness" regarding the Bataan Death March (WWII) and then picked up Ghost Soldiers. This book is unbelieveable and hard to put down. Must read. Provides great insight...
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    • Okay retelling full of stuff recycled from other WWII accounts
    • I found very little original and this book felt like a hollywood type treatment with lots of back and forth between the camp and the evolving rescue operations. I prefer books with alot more...
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    • Ghost Soldiers
    • This book chronicles the horrific story of the Bataan death march, the treatment of American, British, Dutch, Australian, and Norwegian POWs in the Philippines, as well as the Philippine resistance...
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya...

Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife,... more

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    • Learning Organization
    • The author review military doctrine in dealing with local insurgencies. He compares the British experience in Malaysia and the American experience in Viet Nam. The focus on the book is in...
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    • Overrated, but still worth reading.
    • Read this book when I was still on active duty. It got a lot of hype when OIF turned into the "long, hard, slog" and military professionals from the brass on down had to get smart on...
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    • NOT A GOOD BOOK ON COUNTERINSURGENCY
    • This is not truly a book about insurgencies and counterinsurgencies. According to Nagl, his thesis presented in this book is to examine "how armies learn." Nagl uses as case studies the British...
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly... more

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    • College Textbook
    • I mistakenly didn't realise that this is a college textbook. It also reads like a college textbook on Japanese history. As a matter of fact it feels like I am studying! Anyway, a fine book but be...
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    • Excellent history book
    • This book was easy to read and understand. I enjoyed it so much that I did not even sell it at the end of the class. I reccomend this book to anyone even remotely interested in Japanese history.
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Orientalism

Orientalism

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes... more

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    • I am glad such a book was written..
    • I remember reading this book years ago. I am not sure I quite agree with the juxtaposing Homer with Orientalists except in the sense that Homer was from Europe, and there has been the idea of...
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    • Good idea, bad book.
    • Said's book starts with the indisputable premise that the West's view of "the Orient" was distorted due to the West's own preconceptions and needs. This is one of the basic hazards of perception....
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    • Relevant but not complete
    • It certainly is a worthwhile read and will help many delve into concepts they may not have previously considered. That being said, the lens through which the West view(s)(ed) the Orient is quite...
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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan

The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In The... more

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    • A timely survey of Soviet misadventures in Afghanistan
    • "The Soviets had come to help the locals. Why were they hiding?" Sergeant Alexander Kalandrashvili's annoyance at finding a village empty of applauding citizens when his battalion drives through in...
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From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter)

From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter)

A winner of the National Book Award, the seminal study of the Middle East conflict by a Pulitzer Prize-winning... more

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    • From Beruit to Jerusalem
    • I now have such a better understanding of this area, geography, cultures, religions. A great read...very well written. A must read prior to travel in this part of the world.
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    • Just not very good at all.
    • The writing wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't good either. Much of the book read as if it was filler and stories he heard from someone else. The author's account of his time in Beirut was...
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    • Why can't the Palestinians go back to Palestine? The answer is that they don't have Jewish mothers.
    • Don't get me wrong, I am truly a fan of Thomas Friedman. Although this book ends before Rabin's assassination by an ultra-Orthodox Jew who opposes the Oslo Accord. The above question and answer is...
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Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story

Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story

Despite official declarations, the war in Afghanistan is far from over; in fact, it's escalating. Seven years after... more

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Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536

Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the...

A bestselling historian recounts sixteen years that shook the world? the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman... more

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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live... more

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    • Like a novel, only short
    • The book is very well researched and practically reads like a novel, with varying descriptions of both sides of the engagement, as well as historical perspectives and analysis of events that led to...
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    • Pushed my buttons.
    • I'll give this book 3 stars out of charity, and because it may succeed as a work of popular history; indeed, most readers will be satisfied with it.

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    • Better written P.R. than most.
    • Living in Istanbul and working as a journalist, as I did for years, and living on Turkey's Mediterranean Coast as I do now I've run across individuals such as Mr. Crowley -- although I've never met...
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India (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

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    • Perfect to prepare a trip
    • If you don't know anything about India and want to visit this huge country...this guide is perfect for you.
      Very nice pictures of all main touristic attractions can help you decide what you...
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    • Fun to look at, but not authoritative
    • This is a nice book for getting an overview of India and picking out things you might want to do there, which is no small task in a country so large. It's more extensively illustrated than any...
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    • Don't buy from this person!
    • I have waited for over a month for this book and it never arrived! Of course my credit card was charged! Needless to say, I am very disappointed and will think twice before buying again!
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Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes

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The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is... more

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    • This well written and balanced history of Himalayan Mountaineering entertainly describes the adventures,personalities, and climbing culture of a truely facinating place and era . I think that...
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    • To Pedantic
    • Much of the book is long on words (may need dictionary at you side) and short of interest to hold great appeal. I'm still working my way through the book with the help of Wikipedia. This tome has...
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of... more

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    • There's a lot we can learn
    • On March 20, 1995, in the middle of the morning rush hour, the Aum Shinrikyo cult unleashed a terrorist attack on the subways of Tokyo. Five men on five different trains unleashed sarin gas in the...
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    • What is the master trying to tell us?
    • In 1995, a Buddhist sect staged poison gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, leading to 12 deaths and hundreds of injured, some of them with lasting damage to their health.
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese... more

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    • You will read it and reread it and reread it but it is all true
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    • AP World History Review: Nanking Book Review
    • Although Iris Chang, the author of "The Rape of Nanking," created a well written historical novel, his explanation of the rather horrible event is somewhat graphic and repetitive. The chapters all...
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    • A gross falsification that obscures true understanding
    • I am amazed that there still are people who are blindly accepting what is said in this book as the truth. People need to be smarter. If you want to learn history, learn by reading credible history...
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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

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    • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
    • My friends in the social sciences consider this a classic, and it gave me insight into the (discouraging) way the modern world actually works. Including things like why we will not get...
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    • Ray of Sunshine
    • Like another reviewer, I am puzzled why Olsons work has not become mainstream by now. A comment on page 45 "The argument also has only a lesser applicability to any country in which constitutional...
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Award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against... more

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    • Operation Anaconda/AAR
    • The book is an excellent reading material-the author was "on the ground" and was first witness to Operation Anaconda.

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    • A Very Good Read
    • Billed as the equivalent of 'Blackhawk Down' for its gripping battle narrative, I decided to give this book a read. I wish I could have given it 3.5 stars instead of just 3, but Amazon does not...
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    • Not A Good Book to compare to Black Hawk Down
    • The story somewhat picks up like the beginning of Carlito's Way. Al Pacino is dying at the beginning and you go back to what got him there. In the book, it starts off with the soldiers ready to...
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The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture

The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought...

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    • Good book, slow read, very educational on Japanese culture
    • This book has been by my nightstand for almost 2 years now. I read a little bit each time. I am very interested in Japanese culture and if that is where your interest lies, culture and history of...
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    • Great Guide into Japanes Culture
    • This is a great book, comparable to a mini encyclopedia. What it does is take many important aspects of Japanese culture and it compresses it into a brief and enjoyable format. Very entertaining...
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