In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
By: Lindsey Hilsum
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Marie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Wi…
Want to Read $ 8.92"Palestinian youths used stones and marbles, often in slingshots, to taunt young Israeli soldiers, who shot back with tear gas and live fire. The Palestinians always came off worse. Funerals would turn into protests and so it would roll on, violence ebbing and escalating, the world transfixed by the desperation of a Palestinian generation who saw no future."-Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
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1. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus (Meg Langslow, #17)
By: Donna Andrews
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Life will never be the same for Meg Langslow after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole… read more
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2. Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
By: Jessica Alexander
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eye-opening and intimate memoir about life as an international humanitarian aid worker in the fi… read more
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3. Under the Wire: Marie Colvin's Final Assignment
By: Paul Conroy
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Zero Dark Thirty meets 127 Hours--a riveting war journal from photographer Paul Conroy, who accompa… read more
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4. Year of the Jungle
By: Suzanne Collins , James Proimos
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the… read more
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5. The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
By: Wilfred Owen , Cecil Day-Lewis
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the… read more
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6. Strange Meeting
By: Susan Hill
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. 'He was af… read more
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7. Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
By: Andrew Thomson , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the early 1990s three young people attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN… read more
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8. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
By: Lynsey Addario
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit … read more
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9. Heimwee moet je koesteren
By: Floortje Dessing
3.77
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Floortje Dessing maakt de balans wat is haar het meest bijgebleven van de bijzondere ontmoetingen … read more
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10. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more
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11. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
12. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
13. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
By: Lindsey Hilsum
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Marie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Wi… read more
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"Palestinian youths used stones and marbles, often in slingshots, to taunt young Israeli soldiers, who shot back with tear gas and live fire. The Palestinians always came off worse. Funerals would tur…"-Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
14. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
By: Clarissa Ward
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict rep… read more
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15. No Ordinary Assignment
By: Jane Ferguson
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty o… read more
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16. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News
By: Emily Maitlis
4.10
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a… read more
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17. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more
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18. Toucan Keep a Secret (Meg Langslow, #23)
By: Donna Andrews
4.00
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of … read more
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19. The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Meg Langslow, #27)
By: Donna Andrews
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of … read more
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20. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)
By: Alan Bradley
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more
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21. Sticks and Scones (A Bakeshop Mystery, #19)
By: Ellie Alexander
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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