Books read since 2005
These are the books I have read in the last few years.
With rare exception, (Ref)erence books, I pass on the books so they may again be passed on. I encourage you to do the same. Read to learn or recreate; pass on and teach or let others enjoy.
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33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask |
Thomas E. Woods Jr |
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9 Lives: An Oral History |
Aaron Elson |
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90 Minutes In Heaven: A True Story of Death And Life |
Don Piper and Cecil Murphey |
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A Collector’s Guide to The M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine (Ref) |
Bruce N. Canfield |
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A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values |
Robert H. Bork |
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A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos |
Alan Lipton & Kfir Alfia |
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A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations with Veterans of World War II |
Aaron Elson |
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A Separate Peace |
John Knowles |
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A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection |
James B. Stockdale |
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Ac6V’s DX101x HF + Six Meters DXing Reference Guide, A Comprehensive Guide to the World of HF DXing - Now with Six Meters (Ref) |
Rodney R. Dinkins |
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AC6V’s FM 101x: Using Repeaters, A Comprehensive Guide to Your First VHF/UHF Radio and Using Repeaters (Ref) |
Rodney R. Dinkins |
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All American: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq |
Robert McGovern |
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream |
Tanya Lee Stone |
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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It |
Mark Steyn |
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American Courage: Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Great |
Herbert W. Warden III |
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American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day |
Robert Coram |
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American Security: Back to Basics |
Angelo Codevilla |
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An Inconvenient Book |
Glenn Beck |
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Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machne |
Ed Macy |
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Arguing With Idiots |
Glenn Beck |
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagles Nest |
Stephen E. Ambrose |
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Beer-Can Chicken: And 74 Other Offbeat Recipes for the Grill (Ref) |
Steven Raichlen |
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters |
Major Dick Winters |
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Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II |
Len Deighton |
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War |
Robert Coram |
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Cal. .30 Carbines M1, M1A1, M2, and M3, TM9-1276 — 1953 (Ref) |
Department of The Army |
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Co-ed Combat: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn’t Fight The Nation’s Wars |
Kingsley Browne |
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Come On People: On The Path from Victims to Victors |
Bill Cosby & Alvin F. Poussaint |
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Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws |
Andrew P. Napolitano |
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Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’ Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior |
James B. Stockdale |
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Death’s Acre: Inside The Legendary Forensic Lab ‘The Body Farm’ Where The Dead Tell Tales |
Dr. Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson |
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Decision Points |
George W. Bush |
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why |
Laurence Gonzales |
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Defining Moments: WQorld War II |
Alex Hook |
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Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror |
Richard Miniter |
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Disney: The Mouse Betrayed: Greed, Corruption, and Children at Risk |
Peter & Rochelle Schweizer |
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Enroute: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between |
Steven “Kelly” Grayson |
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Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches |
David Nichols (Ed.) |
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Ever Wonder Why: And Other Conservative Essays |
Thomas Sowell |
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Flags of Our Fathers |
James Bradley |
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Fleeced: How Washington Insiders, Foreign Lobbyists, Subprime Lenders, Credit Card Companies… |
Dick Morris & Eileen McGann |
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Florida Firearms – Law, Use, & Ownership — Sixth Edition (Ref) |
Jon H. Gutmacher |
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Foibles of Father Joe |
Connell J. MaGuire |
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Follies of a Navy Chaplain |
Connell J. Maguire |
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission |
Hampton Sides |
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Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington |
Jack Broughton |
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Going Rogue |
Sarah Palin |
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Harry Potter Books 1-7 |
J.K.Rowling |
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Hatcher’s Bok of the Garand: Development of Semiautomatic Rifles |
Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher |
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Hating America: The New World Sport |
John Gibson |
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific |
Robert Leckie |
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High Humor of the Hills |
James & Joseph Turner |
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How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques (Ref) |
Steven Raichlen |
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How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) |
Ann Coulter |
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In Love and War: The Story of a Family’s Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years |
Jim & Sybil Stockdale |
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In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir |
Dick Cheney, with Liz Cheney |
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In the Gravest Extreme: Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection (Ref) |
Massad F. Ayoob |
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Infidel |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington |
Paul Sperry |
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Intelligence Failure: The Clinton’s National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11 |
David N. Bossie |
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Les Miserables |
Victor Hugo |
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Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War over Liberalism |
Sean Hannity |
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Letters Home from World War II: from Foxholes and Flight Decks |
Rod Cragg |
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Life, Death and Everything in Between: A Paramedic’s Memoirs |
Steven “Kelly” Grayson |
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Me, Mom, and World War II |
Albert F. Pishioneri |
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Meditations on Violence (Ref) |
Sgt. Rory Miller |
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Moment of Truth in Iraq |
Michael Yon |
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography |
Justin Kaplan |
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My Grandfather’ Son: A Memoir |
Clarence Thomas |
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My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir |
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know Is Wrong |
John Stossel |
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Multiple Myeloma: The Plain English Handbook |
Robert J. Heller |
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Neither Predator Nor Prey |
Mark Spungin |
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Nomad: From Islam to America, A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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Of Thee I Zing |
Laura Ingram |
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Oh, Johnny |
Jim Lehrer |
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On Call In Hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War Story |
Richard Jadick & Thomas Hayden |
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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of The North Platte Canteen |
Bob Greene |
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One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam |
Timothy N. Castle |
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Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-Boat Attacks Along The American Coast in World War II |
Michael Gannon |
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Orbit |
John J. Nance |
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Physics for Future Presidents |
Richard A. Muller |
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Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home |
Douglas Bauer |
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Reckless Disregard |
Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson |
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut |
Mike Mullane |
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Rifle, Caliber .30 M1 Garand, TM 9-1005-222-12, 1969 (Ref) |
Department of The Army |
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Rosie The Riveter: Women Working on The Home Front in World War II |
Penny Colman |
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Satisfaction : How Every Great Company Listens to the Voice of the Customer |
Chris Denove & James Power |
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Saving Cascadia |
John J. Nance |
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Semi-Automatic Pistol in Police Service and Self Defense (Ref) |
Massad F. Ayoob |
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Shots Fired in Anger: A Rifleman’s View of The War in The Pacific, 1942-1945 (Ref) |
John B. George |
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Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America |
Laura Ingraham |
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Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan |
Robert D. Kaplan |
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Stressfire, Vol. 1 (Gunfighting for Police: Advanced Tactics and Techniques) (Ref) |
Massad F. Ayoob |
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Tanks for The Memories: The 712th Tank Battalion during World War II |
Aaron Elson |
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Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases |
Peter Berkowitz |
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The AR-15/M16: A Practical Guide (Ref) |
Duncan Long |
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The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications - 2011 (Ref) |
ARRL |
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The ARRL Operating Manual for Radio Amateurs - 9th Edition (Ref) |
Mark J. Wilson (Editor) |
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The Art of War (Ref) |
Sun Tzu |
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The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s War on American Values |
Brad O’Leary |
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The Barbecue! Bible (Ref) |
Steven Raichlen |
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The Blind Side |
Michael Lewis |
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The Bridge at Dong Ha |
John Grider Miller |
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The Coldest Winter: America and The Korean War |
David Halberstam |
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The Complete M1 Garand Assembly Guide (Ref) |
Walt Kuleck and Clint McKee |
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus |
Joel Chandler Harris |
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The Constant Gardener |
John le Carré |
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The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land |
Andrew P. Napolitano |
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The First Casualty: From The Crimea to Vietnam, The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker |
Phillip Knightley |
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The Good the Spam and the Ugly |
Steve H. Graham |
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The Great New Orleans Gun Grab: Descent Into Anarchy |
Gordon Hutchinson & Todd Masson |
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* The Key West Reader: The Best of the Key West Writers 1830-1990 |
George Murphy (Ed.) |
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The Jolly Rogers |
Tom Blackburn; James Stockdale; Paul McCarthy |
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The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada |
Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D. |
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir |
Bill Bryson |
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The Long Arm of America: The story of the amazing Hercules air assault transport… |
Martin Caidin |
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America |
Bill Bryson |
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The M1 Garand, 1936 to 1957 (Ref)) |
Joe Poyer and Craig Riesch |
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The M1 Garand Complete Assembly Guide (Ref)) |
Walt Kulek and Clint McKee |
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The M1 Garand: Post World War II (Ref) |
Scott A. Duff |
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The M1 Garand: Serial Numbers & Data Sheets (Ref) |
Scott A. Duff |
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The M1 Garand: World War II (Ref) |
Scott A. Duff |
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The Navajo Code Talkers |
Doris A. Paul |
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The Operator’s Manual for Rifle 5.56-MM, M16 (Ref) |
Department of The Army |
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The Phantom of the Opera |
Gaston Leroux |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) |
Robert Spencer |
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The Post-American Presidency |
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer |
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The Prince of Darkness |
Robert Novak |
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The Race Card |
Peter Collier & David Horowitz |
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The Secret Wireless War: The Story of MI6 Communications 1939-1945 |
Geoffrey Pidgeon |
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The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World (Ref) |
Serge Trifkovic |
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The Time of My Life |
Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi |
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The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stunt Man |
Vic Armstrong |
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The Truth About Self Protection (Ref) |
Massad F. Ayoob |
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They Were All Young Kids |
Aaron C. Elson |
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Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot |
James B. Stockdale |
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Trace |
Patricia Cornwell |
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U-505 (Twenty Million Tons Under The Sea) |
Daniel V. Gallery, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) |
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U.S. M1 Carbines, Wartime Production, 6th Edition (Ref) |
Craig Riesch |
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U.S. Rifle Caliber .30, M1, Field Manual FM 23-5 (1943, 1951, 1965 editions) (Ref) |
Department of The Army |
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U.S. Rifles, Cal. .30 M1, M1C, and M1D, TM9-1275, 1947 (Ref) |
War Department |
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Visions From A Foxhole: A Rifleman in Patton’s Ghost Corps |
William A.Foley Jr. |
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War Crimes |
Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson |
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Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers |
Kenji Kawano |
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War, Politics, and Power (Ref) |
Karl von Clausewitz |
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What Makes You Think We Read the Bills |
H. L. Richardson |
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames |
David Sedaris |
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Windtalkers: The Making of The Film About The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II |
Antonia Felix, (Ed.) |
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With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa |
E. B. Sledge |
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Who Cares About Apathy? |
Ludlow Porch |
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WordPress for Dummies (Ref) |
Lisa Sabin-Wilson |




