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Fly by Wire
The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying...
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Community and Identity
The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704

Manchester University Press
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military...
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Only in New York
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City

St. Martin's Press
No one denies that New York City is unique—but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his...
  
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The Long Gray Line
The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

Holt Paperbacks
“Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance . . . A very moving book.” —James Salter, The Washington Post Book World A classic of its...
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Meltdown
The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

St. Martin's Griffin
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea’s nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong-Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea...
  
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Apache Dawn
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

St. Martin's Press
The Apache attack helicopter is one of the world’s most awe - some weapons systems. Deployed for the first time in Afghanistan, it has already passed into...
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The Last Princess
The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter

St. Martin's Griffin
An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother—a powerful and insightful look at two...
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Sniper One
On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq

St. Martin's Griffin
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The Bull of Minos
The Great Discoveries of Ancient Greece

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
This is the story of two of the most heroic, and controversial, figures in archaeology: Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the remains of Troy, and Arthur...
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The Remains of Company D
A Story of the Great War

St. Martin's Press
“Not since Flags of Our Fathers—no, make that, Not since Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory—no, make that, Not ever—has an American nonfiction...

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Night

Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
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Kill Bin Laden
A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man

St. Martin's Griffin
The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world—an operation of such magnitude that it couldn’t be handled by just any military or intelligence force....
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Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America’s first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

Picador
W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Picador
"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey,...
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The Day of Battle
The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

Holt Paperbacks
“A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”—The New York Times In...
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An Army at Dawn
The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

Holt Paperbacks
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war...
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The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century

Picador
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction...
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The Templars
The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades

St. Martin's Griffin
In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic caliphate for over four hundred years, fell to an army of Christian knights intent on liberating...
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Killer Elite
The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team

St. Martin's Griffin
A top-secret U.S. Army Special Operations unit has been running covert missions all over the world, from leading death squads to the hideout of drug baron...
  
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A Night to Remember

Holt Paperbacks
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First...
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Easy Company Soldier
The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"

St. Martin's Griffin
Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and was one of the one in six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to...
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All But My Life

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...