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Thomas E. Ricks
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war–and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it–draws on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice…
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An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are different-sometimes lethally so.
Thomas E Ricks
After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball --…
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A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in…
Churchill may have played the larger role in Hitler’s defeat, but Orwell’s reckoning with the threat of authoritarian rule in 1984 and Animal Farm defined the stakes of the Cold…
Examines how the educations of America’s first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation’s…
Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers a fascinating, insiders look at Parris Island, the training ground that turns out the best, most disciplined soldiers in the…
Cutting through the headlines and spin, this book gives us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to…
"A new history of the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on its nonviolent use of military tactics and strategy"--
1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and…
Originally published by The Penguin Press, 2012.
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Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led…
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