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  • Kill Anything That Moves

    The Real American War in Vietnam

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    The New York Times Bestseller2014 American Book Award WinnerWinner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction“An indispensable, paradigm-shifting new history of the war...All these decades later, Americans still haven't drawn the right lesson from Vietnam.” —San Francisco ChronicleBased on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history o... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

    War and Survival in South Sudan

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    "[A] vivid, gripping account of inhuman cruelty, laced with rays of hope and courage and dignity amidst the horrors" (Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects).A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best.For six weeks in the spring of 2015, award-winning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tomorrow's Battlefield

    U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today." In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Changing Face of Empire

    Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Complex

    How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    A stunning breakdown of the modern military-industrial complex—an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives.From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, national security expert Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. He investigates the remarkable range ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Surviving Vietnam

    Psychological Consequences of the War for US Veterans

    by Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Nick Turse, Thomas J. Yager, Melanie M. Wall ...
    The war in Vietnam is a watershed moment in United States history -- the first war lost by the U.S. despite its seemingly overwhelming military might. Surviving Vietnam focuses on the psychological consequences, especially posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of service in such a war for U.S. veterans. The diagnosis of PTSD, termed following and significantly influenced by this war, stirred ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Kill Anything That Moves

    by Nick Turse ...
    Narrated by Don Lee ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were “isolated incidents” in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few “bad apples.” However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Operators

    The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan

    by Michael Hastings ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    In June 2010, Michael Hastings published an article in Rolling Stone that made headlines around the world: In "The Runaway General," he reported on a week he spent in Europe with General Stanley McChrystal, the revered soldier in charge of the war in Afghanistan.McChrystal and his staff's unguarded remarks about the White House, our allies and the conduct of the war led President Obama to order ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Embers of War

    The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

    by Fredrik Logevall ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 15 min

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWritten with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Tiger Force

    A True Story of Men and War

    by Michael Sallah, Mitch Weiss ...
    Narrated by Harry Chase ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 56 min

    At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Wrecking Crew

    How Conservatives Rule

    by Thomas Frank ...
    Narrated by Oliver Wyman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the Washington those politicians have given us, showing why, no matter what happens in November 2008, we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future.Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Goliath

    Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

    by Max Blumenthal ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 19 min

    In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008/9, which brought into ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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