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Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects onebook that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading byall Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were SoldiersOnce . . . and Young. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry,under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopterinto a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediatelysurrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later,only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped topieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray andAlbany constituted one of the most savage and significant battlesof the Vietnam War. How these men persevered--sacrificed themselves for theircomrades and never gave up--makes a vivid portrait of war at itsmost inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway,the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, haveinterviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the Nort

Here is the crucial summer of 1944 as seen by both sides, fromthe British spy, code-named “Garbo,” who successfully misled theNazis about the time and place of the D-day landings, to the poorplanning for action after the assault that forced the allies tofight for nine weeks “field to field, hedgerow to hedgerow.” Heretoo are the questionable command decisions of Montgomery,Eisenhower, and Bradley, the insatiable ego of Patton. Yet,fighting in some of the most miserable conditions of the war, theallied soldiers used ingenuity, resilience, and raw courage todrive the enemy from France in what John Keegan describes as “thebiggest disaster to hit the German army in the course of the war.”Normandy is an inspiring tribute to the common fighting men of fivenations who won the pivotal campaign that lead to peace andfreedom.

In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the riseof the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives ofsome of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands theirown rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimateunderstanding of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean,North America, India, and Afghanistan. Here are harrowing, sometimes poignant stories by soldiers andsailors and their womenfolk, by traders and con men and by white aswell as black slaves. By exploring these forgotten captives – andtheir captors – Colley reveals how Britain’s emerging empire wasoften tentative and subject to profound insecurities andlimitations. She evokes how British empire was experienced by themass of poor whites who created it. She shows how imperial racismcoexisted with cross-cultural collaborations, and how the gulfbetween Protestantism and Islam, which some have viewed as centralto this empire, was often smaller than expected. Brilliantlywritten and richly ill

Writing with passion and intelligence, Said retraces thePalestinian Hejira, its disastrous flirtation with Saddam Hussein,and its ambitious peace accord with Israel. Said demolishes Westernstereotypes about the Muslim world and Islam's illusions aboutitself, leaving a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemicwith the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East.