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"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
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"Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs. Four tattered scrapbooks found in a Connecticut bank vault in 1994 yielded a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's great national drama. These scrapbooks - plus a five-thousand-page illustrated memoir that came to light later - are the life's achievement of a long-forgotten Union...
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From his medical experiences in South Africa, Kurdistan, Mozambique, and Eritrea, the author reflects on the nature of human violence, the contradictions of war, and the role of medicine in the modern world.
"When Jonathan Kaplan began his medical studies in Cape Town, the prospect of political change in South Africa seemed remote. A police attack on a student demonstration bloodied his hands for the first time, and Kaplan realized that he was seeing...
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Raised in a home where discussions of politics were commonplace, John B. Moullette was fascinated by happenings on the international front. His own involvement was boots-on-the-ground, rather than academic. He served twice in the United States Marine Corps, first during World War II and again during the Korean Conflict. It was during the latter event that a letter he had intended for his father wound up causing a stir on the pages of newspapers and...