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Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not... more

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  A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

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  • Posted:Oct-17-2009

  • Simply the truth.
  • Thanks to Lewis Sorley. This is an objective history. The truth is very difficult to bear. God bless the men and women who fought for the Republic of South Vietnam.
    
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  • Posted:Jan-15-2006

  • Good But Overrated
  • I noted from the book's jacket that: "There was a moment when the United States had the Vietnam War wrapped up, writes military historian Lewis Sorley (biographer of two Vietnam-era U.S. Army...
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  • Posted:Dec-16-2005

  • Old wine in a new bottle
  • Using new evidence from the Abrams papers, but failing to examine massive recent declassifications of Nixon's and others' papers and tapes, including Soviet, Chinese, and Vietnamese documents and...
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On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle the impact on the nervous... more

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  On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

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  • The Science Behind Why We Train
  • This is THE ONE book every uniformed service member must read: Military, Police, and Fire. Training Officers - you owe it to your team to read this book: their lives depend on it. It provides the...
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As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough... more

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  Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • Miniseries vs. Book
  • This may be the first time I enjoyed the movie (the HBO miniseries) more than the book. "Band of Brothers" is a very straightforward record drawn from personal accounts from the paratroopers of E...
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  • Posted:Jan-17-2009

  • For the love of god don't read this book!!!
  • Stay away from ambrose and his terrible books, he paints a poor and incomplete picture of WW2, he is biased (IE in DDay he never once interveiwed a Troop Carrier pilot and painted them as cowards),...
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  • Posted:Dec-19-2008

  • A disappointment from a talented author
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In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick... more

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  An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The...

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  • Posted:Oct-24-2008

  • An Army At Dawn
  • Outstanding account of invasion of North Africa 1943. Well researched and written with an engrossing style. I have purchased other Atkinson books and they are all outstading historical narratives...
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  • Posted:Oct-01-2008

  • It's a Page Turner
  • Outstanding. Tight writing moves the narrative along quickly, with plenty of fascinating information. The initial incompetence of the American war effort is second only to the perpetual...
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  • Posted:Mar-28-2008

  • Not a balanced history
  • The good part about this book is in the details. Many engagements are described day-by-day and objective-by-objective. The lives and experiences of officers and men throughout the ranks are...
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Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless... more

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  We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam

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  • Posted:Jul-27-2009

  • Demonstrates the heroism of the lower ranks despite the failure of leadership in the upper ranks
  • This is a difficult book to rate and I'd prefer not to assign a star rating for that reason. It's a good, although confusing, recitation of individual recollections of the minute by minute events...
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  • Posted:Sep-02-2004

  • Amazing Topic, Poorly Written
  • When I think of this book and the movie made from it, I wonder how they did that. Trying to gather comprehensible, story-telling scenes for a motion picture from this jumble of poorly written...
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  • Posted:Dec-05-2003

  • Definitive account of Ia Drang, albeit heart wrenching
  • I read the book twice and saw the movie twice. The movie does not do justice to the book. It is the best historical record of a brutal battle in Vietnam in 1965. However, the book does not flow...
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer?s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger?s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of... more

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  Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last...

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  • Posted:Dec-28-2008

  • Great adventure book
  • This was a heart pounding adventure book. Once the story really started unfolding, there was new twists and turns around every corner. Once the submarine was found, it became an obsession for the...
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  • Posted:Jan-12-2007

  • Shadowing anything?
  • On the surface, the book is pretty good if you want to learn and even feel about how dangerous diving is. The narrative style is exactly what you expect in this kind of...
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  • Posted:Dec-21-2006

  • Poor at Best
  • This author fills the book with needless details. He makes a hero out of Bill Nagle, the captain of the dive boat, a hopeless alcoholic who should have had his master's license revoked years before...
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When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it  lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency... more

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  The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual

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  • Posted:Oct-24-2008

  • Had a shipping problem, but Amazon fixed it!
  • This review is more about the product return service than the book itself, though it is excellent. The book was first shipped to me damaged, but amazon had a very easy to use and straightforward...
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In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted... more

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  The Men Who Stare at Goats

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  • Posted:Sep-12-2009

  • Not funny, as it should be
  • This book isn't funny.
    
    Mind you, Ronson knows exactly what he's doing by presenting the book as "hilarious" - it starts out completely absurd, with the high-minded hippy ideals of a...
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  • Posted:Jul-14-2008

  • more than you think
  • This book was a fun read, had some good info but I was hoping it would open up to the bigger stories of the elite (black ops) at fort bragg who are trained with much more super human ability, are...
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  • Posted:Dec-10-2007

  • I hope he realizes...
  • there are a lot of us on active duty who think that yanking the chains of visiting reporters is all kinds of fun.
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In America?s new war, the first guns in the fight are special operations forces, including the Navy SEALs, specially... more

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  The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident

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  • Posted:Jul-21-2009

  • A Must Read
  • I have very little to say about this book because it so good you really come away with the sense that the Human spirit can endure anything. After completing the book you really realize what the...
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  • Posted:Sep-01-2008

  • Disappointing
  • I purchased "The Warrior Elite" and "The Finishing School" as a set. I was more or less pleased with "The Warrior Elite", but was very disappointed with "The Finishing School". The book was very...
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  • Posted:Jun-18-2005

  • good, but not as good as The Warrior Elite
  • SQT or SEAL Qualification Training is a four or five month program which SEAL candidates must pass before earning the Navy SEAL trident which is what The Finishing School is all about. After BUDS,...
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The remarkable untold story of France?s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country?s most... more

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  Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

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  • Posted:Sep-20-2009

  • Wonderful book on a rough subject
  • In the first few pages of the book, the authors describe a wine tasting they attended with all of the wilting flowers one expects out of the dullest of wine snobs. It is a rough start, especially...
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  • Posted:Dec-14-2008

  • Interesting material, lazy compilation
  • I found this book enjoyable. Stories of the French resistance during Nazi occupation were something I hadn't had exposure to before, and found quite exciting. In addition, the breadth of...
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  • Posted:Jan-04-2007

  • Interesting but Disorganized and Lightweight
  • There are certainly a number of interesting story lines in this book but it is written in a breezy lightweight style and follows no discernable pattern or outline. Really this is a collection of...
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With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and... more

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  The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228

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  • Posted:Sep-09-2008

  • Outstanding!!!
  • I thought that I knew alot about the Navy SEALS and their training, but boy was I wrong. Dick Couch did a great job at taking us from day one at Indoc of 114 gung-ho soldiers, down to the last...
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  • Posted:Jan-09-2008

  • Ultimately disappointing
  • There's a lot to like about this book. Couch - a SEAL himself - had unprecedented access to the SEAL training program, and was given a wide berth to write about it in detail. As an overview of an...
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  • Posted:Dec-14-2003

  • Save your cash
  • This book is definitely written from an conventional Navy officer's perspective. Despite Couch's past SEAL career, he basically comes across as one of the "conventional" thinking SEAL officers that...
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Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely... more

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  Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

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  • Posted:Aug-29-2009

  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
  • It took me 6 months to read this book and I read 2 other books while reading it. I must say though that this would be the book for anyone interested or having any questions on Nazi germany or...
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  • Posted:Aug-26-2009

  • read with some caution and read more than just this book
  • This well-known work from an American journalist present in Germany for some years before the Second World War and author of other famous books, deserves to be read for the sheer volume of the...
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  • CFR Fiction
  • The author was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which essentially runs the United States for the International Bankers who own the privately owned Rothchild's Federal Reserve...
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A World War II chronicles of Jan Baalsrud's escape from Nazi-occupied arctic Norway. more

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  We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

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  • A Desire to live
  • This story tells of the incredible desire to serve one's country (Norway) and the enormous physical and mental strength to do it. It's hard to imagine that one can find this much courage,...
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  • Posted:Oct-07-2008

  • An usual mix...
  • There are so many 5-star reviews that I thought I'd add a little detail so potential readers can know more about this before diving in like I did.
    The story starts out as a plan for espionage...
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  • Posted:Aug-22-2008

  • we die alone
  • i have read the book but was not happy just because is almost the same as the book ( AS FAR AS MY FEET CAN CARRY ME).
    some pages were exactly the same , word by word.
    it look...
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War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic... more

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  Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

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  • Posted:May-01-2009

  • A good anthology
  • Normally I find essay collections insufficient in depth and scope,but this one has agreably surprised me, I concur with other rewiers that the earlier ediction was better, but the essays here are...
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  • Posted:Jul-18-2000

  • Newer is Not Necessarily Better
  • This second version of the book is disappointing. I would have thought that it being edited by an historian as good as Peter Paret would have improved on the original, which was edited by Robert...
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?This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we... more

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  The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's...

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  • "Our schoolchildren should know about [this] incident, and our enemies should ponder it."
  • In late October 1944 the US Navy guarded the seas off the Philippines protecting the return of General MacArthur. With the 7th Fleet (Kinkaid) guarding from the south, and the 3rd Fleet (Halsey)...
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  • The last stand of the Tin Can Saliors
  • I enjoyed the book but was disappointed that it was a large print addition. This was NOT noted when I ordered it and I do not like it. You must notify people of this in the future.
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  • Not totally accurate but a decent translation
  • Many say this translation, The Manheim, though filled with anti-Hitler footnotes, remains truest to the original.
    
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  • poor edition: lazy, sloppy translation
  • I'm reviewing this particular edition of Mein Kampf, not the book itself or Hitler's arguments. If you just want to understand what Hitler's philosophy was, this is fine and inexpensive.
    
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  • A word on previous reviews...
  • Mein Kampf is an interesting and powerful book to be sure. The book is not solely about the Jews, but I am writing my review in reference to Hitler's assertions therein, mostly because I am...
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  Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their...

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  • Good book
  • This book deals with a difficult topic-how to interact with returning soldiers. It is good to know that there are professionals out there that are helping these soldiers and that the military is...
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  • Thought it would be good
  • I purchased this for my boyfriend upon him returning home from Fallujah. He didn't open it once. It's just not a book that a war veteran wants to read, or even be reminded of. He went through...
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  Barron's Officer Candidate School Test

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  • REALLY BARRONS??
  • I am in the process of reviewing and prepping for the Aviation Selection Test Battery for Navy and have been using this book extensively. While I would say 95% of it is correct, THERE ARE...
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  • Decent-Good product. Works well but could be more professionaly made
  • BARRON'S OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL TEST:
    
    This is great for letting readers know the basics of being a pilot in the military. Describes types of planes, pay rates, and job descriptions.
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  • Adequate
  • This book is good to use in conjunction with other books to prepare for the AFOQT test. HOWEVER, there are quite a few wrong answers in the Mathematics practice and testing portions. Plan on...
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  The Second World War: A Complete History

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  • Mike's review
  • This was a nice addition to other books I have read on this particular engagement.
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  • The Driest Details
  • I hate to take issue with a renowned historian like Martin Gilbert, but this account of WW II is a pretty unrewarding read. The narrative is purely linear, moving from one day of the war to the...
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  • The Book of Numbers
  • I started this book with hopes of seeing an over all picture of WWII from begining to end. What I got was hundreds of pages of 'this many dead from this campaign,' or 'these many dead from that...
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  • When Empires Colide
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  • Bad writing
  • I know bad writing when I read it, and this is bad. This is a long book, but mostly because the author chooses to write a paragraph to express a sentence. And the observations he does make are...
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  • Good But Not Great
  • Overall, Crucible of War is a pretty good but not a great read. At times it is riveting. But other times it bogs down in too much detail, especially political detail.

    The major weakness of the...

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