The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky’s history of the USSR’s nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering perspective on exit options in the region.What makes Kalinovsky’s intense account both timely and impo

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“Opening the enormous metal gate, the guard suddenly took away my blindfold and asked me, tauntingly, if I would recognize my parents. With my eyes hurting from the strange light and anger in my voice, I assured him that I would. Suddenly I was pushed through the gate and the door was slammed behind me. After more than eight years, here I was, finally, out of jail . . . .”

In this haunting account, Shahla Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran. Talebi, along with her h

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A unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date collection of government documents on the threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to American and coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress has appropriated over billion to the Joint IED Defeat Organiztion (JIEDDO) to address the IED threat. IEDs are the enemy’s fires system – their artillery. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the enemy delivers these fires through networks that for centuries have formed the sinews of commerce for tribes and fact

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News from the Middle East finds us wherever we live in today’s world. Children often wonder about this far-removed land, while parents struggle to teach their children about Islam. Tales of Persia is a timely book of missionary tales that will teach readers about Islam and encourage a new generation of Christians. Tales of Persia is especially useful for family devotions and Sunday school classes.

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Don’t Mean Nuthin’ tells the story of Frank Morgan, a young college grad raised on Army discipline who begins his career as a Phoenix Program assassin in Vietnam believing in his country.
The book begins with Morgan on the Freedom Bird to ‘Nam in 1969, sitting next to a grizzled grunt. It’s Morgan’s first realization of what may be in store.
With less the month to go on his tour, Morgan leads a squad of South Vietnamese special forces in a bloody massacre and then mistake

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The true cost of the Iraq War is trillion—and counting—rather than the billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six t

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