Iraq War
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
$17.99 Add to cart*ALA Notable Children’s book 2006 *
Celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter weaves a hopeful tale of one woman’s courageous book rescue. In the Spring of 2003, Alia Muhammad Baker was the city- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0152054456
- Language: English
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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
$18.00 Add to cartThe award-winning, powerful portrait of life in the Middle East, that weaves history, cuisine, and firsthand reporting into a fearless, intimate exploration of everyday survival.
In the fall of 2003,- Author: Ciezadlo, Annia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1416583947
- Language: English
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
$24.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize – One of the Washington Post Book World‘s 10 Best Books of the Year – Time‘s 10 Best Books of the Year – USA Today‘s Nonfiction Book of the Year – A New York Times Nota… [more below]
- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038915
- Language: English
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Warrior Police
$25.00 Add to cartFor the first time ever, author Gordon Cucullu gives readers an explosive inside look at modern military police units and their role in defending our freedom.
America has been at war on several fronts- Author: Cucullu, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013135
- Language: English
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Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
$22.95 Add to cartIn Quagmire you’ll find a range of voices–men and women, military and civilian–and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war’s aftermath. These personal responses to war in… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124527
- Language: English
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The Prince of the Marshes
$16.99 Add to cartIn August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0156032791
- Language: English
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
$20.00 Add to cartIn this first collection of interviews since the
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating,
bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2005
- ISBN10: 080507967X
- Language: English
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
$17.00 Add to cartBased on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history. Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a v… [more below]
- Author: Zucchino, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 080214179X
- Language: English
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
$22.00 Add to cartA Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive
- Author: Bamford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 140003034X
- Language: English
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
$16.00 Add to cartBased on Evan Wright’s National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original mini-series.
Within hours- Author: Wright, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0425224740
- Language: English
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Purple Heart
$10.99 Add to cartWhen Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he’s honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn’t feel like a hero.
There’s a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bul
- Author: McCormick, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0061730920
- Language: English
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Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
$26.00 Add to cartStephen Kinzer’s Overthrow provides a fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments — not always to its own
- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082409
- Language: English
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Ever After
$17.99 Add to cartTwo couples torn apart–one by war between countries, one by war within.
In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the m
- Series: Lost Love #2
- Author: Kingsbury, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0310337844
- Language: English
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
$32.50 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.
From 199
- Author: Kyle, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290797
- Language: English
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The Yellow Birds
$18.99 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.
“The war tried to kill us in the spring.” So begins this powerful acc- Author: Powers, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0316219347
- Language: English
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Uncommon Valor: The Medal of Honor and the Warriors Who Earned It in Afghanistan and Iraq
$25.00 Add to cartUncommon Valor from Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham presents a fascinating look at six of our bravest soldiers and the highest military decoration awarded in this country.
Since the Vietnam Wa- Author: Zimmerman, Dwight Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312604564
- Language: English
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The Good Soldiers
$20.00 Read moreThe Prequel to the Bestselling Thank You for Your Service, Now a Major Motion Picture
With The Good Soldiers, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel has produced an eternal story — not just of- Author: Finkel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0312430027
- Language: English
