The Glory Guys: The Story of the U.S. Army Rangers

By Mona D. Sizer


Chronicles the history of the U.S. Army Rangers through the dramatic experiences of its officers in conflicts ranging from the French and Indian War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in an account that includes stories about such famous figures as Robert Rogers, William Barker Cushing and Ralph Puckett.

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Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

By Anne Salmond

Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status that has figured so powerfully in European imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of "savages." In this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the center of the shared history to furnish rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti. As she discerns the impact and meaning of the European effect on the islands, she demonstrates how, during the early contact period, the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts and artworks, collections of Tahitian artifacts, and illustrated with contemporary sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages, Aphrodite's Island provides a vivid account of the Europeans' Tahitian adventures. At the same time, the book's compelling insights into Tahitian life significantly change the way we view the history of this small island during a period when it became a crossroads for Europe.

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Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp

By Christopher R. Browning


Drawing on the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust-era Starachowice slave-labor camps, the author of Ordinary Men examines the Jewish prisoners' fight for survival through a succession of brutal Nazi camp regimes.

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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

By Doug Stanton

Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.

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Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945

By Andrew Roberts


A joint profile of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and their armed forces commanders Alan Brooke and George C. Marshall evaluates the pivotal ways in which they determined the strategies of allied forces during World War II, in an account that reveals their divergent agendas and tense efforts to collaborate or outmaneuver each other.

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