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With the voice of forty-five years in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes explore crucial conflicts and the lives of astonishing individuals.The former slave who graduated from West PointThe American who would be King of Mexico and NicaraguaThe wild and crazy founder of modern special operationsThe man who taught the FBI to shootThe brave pilots of the Battle of BritainThe rise and fall of Japanese militarismThe Ottomans vs. Vienna . . . twiceThe...

This is a summary of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed "all but lost." In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three's Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that...

"A wonderful book, original in concept and stunningly written." -Ward Just "Elegiac, funny, wistful, deep, and wonderfully human, Dust to Dust moved me to laughter and tears, sometimes simultaneously." -Karl Marlantes, bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War Tim O'Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage...

In this epic thrill ride filled with triumph and tragedy, Jack Treadway takes readers deep into the shadows of covert warfare. As a new SEAL learning to hunt men, a clandestine mini wet submarine comes within inches of slicing and dicing him. In SEAL Team Five, he shuffles through a vomit-spewed C-130 transport plane to jump into something worse-a treacherous snowy mountain in the Korean peninsula. Then he breaks his back in a Special Mission Unit...

This is not your father's war This is Iraq, where a soldier's first duty is reinforcing his Humvee with sheet metal and sand bags. Or, in the absence of plumbing, burning barrels of human waste. Where any dead dog on the side of the road might be concealing an insurgent's bomb and anyone could be the enemy. At age 17, Jason Christopher Hartley joined the Army National Guard. Thirteen years later, he is called to active duty, to serve in Iraq. Sent...

Experience the world of private contractors conducting high-threat missions for a nascent Iraqi government in the hopes of rebuilding after the fall of Saddam Hussein. With limited support, the men of Blackwater protected US diplomats as the country descended into sectarian violence. It was a hazardous mission complete with rockets, mortars, improvised explosive devices, and not knowing who or where the enemy was. Morgan Lerette's irreverently honest...