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

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  • Posted:Aug-11-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Aug-04-2009

  • 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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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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  Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

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  • Posted:Jul-06-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Jul-02-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:May-30-2007

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

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  Orientalism

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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Mar-25-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Nov-25-2008

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

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  Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

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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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  • Posted:Mar-01-2008

  • 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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In recent years Pakistan has emerged as a strategic player on the world stage?both as a potential rogue state armed... more

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  The Idea of Pakistan

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  • Posted:Jan-09-2009

  • trying to understand Pakistan
  • Although I lived a long time in Pakistan more than 30 years ago, un update of my knowledgde about this country was absolutely necessary and reading Stephen Cohen's book was an excellent way to do...
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  • Cohen's Idea of Pakistan
  • One criticism of the book is that he mentions how the country was overrun with guns, drugs and afghans after the afghan war but fails to mention who supplied the guns and helped organize the drugs,...
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In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and... more

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  The Places In Between

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  • Posted:Jan-12-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Sep-14-2008

  • 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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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 to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

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  • Posted:May-29-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Oct-06-2008

  • 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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  • Posted:Sep-23-2008

  • 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, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly... more

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

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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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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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  The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan

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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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More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our modern world for the... more

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  The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)

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  • Posted:Jun-13-2009

  • Unnecessarily emphasizes "non-Chinese" vs. "Chinese"
  • First of all, this so-called illustrated history of China is mostly text and quite dry at that. A lot of history-telling is also quite confusing. The pictures are also mostly not very interesting...
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  • Posted:May-17-2008

  • Great 101 helicoptere view of Chinese History
  • Easy to read, this book accomplished what I was looking for: a complete high-level view of chinese history.
    
    The few things I would have like to be a bit different:
    - More maps,...
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  • Posted:Nov-20-2003

  • Factual, but dry
  • One of the interesting things about this book is that it uses standard Mandarin Pinyin (Chiang Kai-Shek is Jiang Jieshi, Sun Yat-Sen is Sun Zhongshan, etc). While this can be very helpful to those...
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's... more

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  Hiroshima

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  • Our enemies aren't always who we think they are...
  • I read this 160 page book in an afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it. Having read a number of historical works on the Pacific War, I was full bottle on the political and military reasons for the...
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  • 8th Grade Review
  • This book is about the nuclear bomb that dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. It's about a handful of people who survived the bomb and how they helped other people to survive too. They go through lots of...
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  • Where is my book?
  • I ordered this book, "Hiroshima" about 3 weeks ago and I still have not received it in the mail. The distributor said it would take 3-15 days and it has been way beyond this range. Poor service. I...
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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial... more

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  The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.

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  • Powerful data and arguments
  • Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence reinforces some arguments of Frank's ReOrient and reformulates some others. Like Frank, Pomeranz argues that European economy was not unusually different...
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  • nonsense
  • In "The Great Divergence", Kenneth Pomeranz presents an exhaustive investigation of the minutest differences and similarities in development of China and Western Europe. His claim, and stated...
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  • Informative but unpersuasive
  • I enjoyed reading this provocative work, which certainly expanded my understanding of China's economic history and development. But I found the central argument unpersuasive.
    
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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 Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter)

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  • Posted:May-17-2008

  • 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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  • Posted:Jun-08-2007

  • 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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  • Posted:Jan-12-2007

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

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

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

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  • Offers insight into the world we live in today....
  • Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520 - 1536 by James Reston is a wonderful and very informative examination of the times of Charles V,...
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  • "His green-yellow eyes blazed from his drawn cheeks."
  • This could be an excellent scholarly work. I eagerly anticipated its arrival so that I could dig into one of my favorite eras of history. The interaction between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg...
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  1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

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

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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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Comprehensive yet concise, America's Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is... more

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  America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 with Poster

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  • If you want to look at the big picture...
  • This is a well crafted overview of the major events of the Vietnam War. It is fairly balanced, and is quite readable. If you are more interested in reading about combat, then I would recommend...
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  • Lots of Info, but not a great read.
  • In retrospect, I enjoyed this book more than some of the other books about Vietnam that I've read. At the time, however, I viewed it as fairly boring. It contains a lot of useful information...
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The guides that show you what the others only tell you. DK's Eyewitness Travel Guides have increasingly become the... more

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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.
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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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  • Moutaineering Classic
  • 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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