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Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families
Keith Armstrong, Suzanne Best, ...
Ulysses Press, 2005
Compelling and pragmatic
As a disability service provider, I found this book particularly helpful. It is practical and to the point. Veterans can find tips on everything from how to sleep better to how to relax and cope with stressors. The triggers of anxiety are explained well, as are the ...
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Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster, 2001
Real American Heroes
Band of Brothers is the kind of stories I used to hear from my father and uncles of their experiences in World War Two. Stephen Ambrose has a particular talent for making the reader feel all the emotions these very brave men went through. I read the book before I saw ...
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It's Our Ship: The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership
Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
Business Plus, 2008
IT'S OUR SHIP
I'm a big fan of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff's leadership methods and his books. His latest, IT'S OUR SHIP - The No Nonsense Guide to Leadership is the third in a series based on his command tour aboard USS BENFOLD (DDG65) and building on his experiences with leaders ...
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Plague Ship (Oregon Files)
Clive Cussler
Putnam Adult, 2008
One of Cussler's best novels
I have read many of Clive Cussler's novels, and I consider this to be one of his best. Since other reviewers have discussed the plot, I will comment on other aspects of the story.
The characters or larger than life, but not ridiculously so. The same is true of the ...
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Skeleton Coast: A Novel of the Oregon Files (The Oregon Files)
Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Berkley Trade, 2006
Skelton Coast-Great Book
Skelton Coast was an excellent book. This is the type of writting that made Clive Cussler one of my favorite authors.
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Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team
Michael Smith
St. Martin's Griffin, 2008
A piercing, illuminating, and recent military history of the shadows and glimmers only touched on by Hollywood
I can pretty well guarantee you that Tom Clancy has already read this book - it assures us that the people who need to die have been doing just that in the US/British war against terror worldwide. (I've personally thought about this theme of Clancy's re: playing God ...
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It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
Michael Abrashoff
Business Plus, 2002
great book
My husband loves this book and the others by the same author. He bought a copy for everyone in management on his staff.
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Dark Watch (The Oregon Files)
Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Berkley Trade, 2005
Fast favorite
I have always been a Clive Cussler fan, I have been enjoying the "Oregon
Files" since the begining. But lately they have become a fast fovorite.
I am also a Jack Du Burl fan. Teaming him with Clive Cussler is one of
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]
Jeremy Scahill
Nation Books, 2008
War by Error
It is hard to add usefully to the encomiums alrady heaped on this book, which details how a profit-seeking company, Blackwater, with the enthusiastic backing of the White House and Department of Defense and State Department,turned relatively innocuous administratve ...
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Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
Robert Young Pelton
Three Rivers Press, 2007
Anybody got a $500,000 bullet ?
I think the title kind of says it all, wait I thought war profiteering was treason ?. Stop, lets start over: problems need solutions, the problem is the solutions, so now we need solutions for solutions. I get it !!!, we got to come up with Doctor Evil ...
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Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
Dandridge M. Malone
Presidio Press, 1983
Well written
I am thoroughly satisfied with this book. Despite any descriptions that claim it is useful to civilian leaders I find that unlikely. The author even spends time in the first chapter to describe how very little of its contents are useful to civilian leaders and why.
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Dragon and Judge: The Fifth Dragonback Adventure (Dragonback)
Timothy Zahn
Starscape, 2008
Another Winner
In this the fifth book of the series, Zahn does something that he's very good at. He separates his characters and has his two stories running parallel. While Jack and Draycos are finding out what really happened to Jack's late parents, Alison and her symbiant find ...
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Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism ...
Aaron Cohen, Douglas Century
Ecco, 2008
a good read
I found this book to be very interesting. It takes you thru the life of an individual who leaves CA to return to Israel to become a special operator. It was interesting to read of the differences between American and Israeli training methods. Easy to read, well ...
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Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
HarperTorch, 2001
i love this book
out of all of the discworld books this one is my favorite.I love the whole dragon bit and we meet everyone for the 1st time.
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Inside Delta Force
Eric Haney
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2007
Great Book
Gave to my father for his birthday. He said one of the best books he ever read. Fast reading, was finished with it within two days.
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