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Author:Daniel Ford
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror
John Boyd was arguably the greatest American military theorist since the sea power strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the 20th Century. Best known for his formulation of the OODA Loop as a model for competitive decision making, Colonel Boyd was also...- $10.95
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Button
From Simon & Schuster, The Button is Daniel Ford's novel about the Pentagon's command and control system...and whether it works. Author of The Cult of the Atom, Daniel Ford's latest work, The Button, is a thrilling and chilling novel about the Pentagon's command and...- $17.99
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Author:Daniel Ford
Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam
Cowboy was handsome, flamboyant, courageous, clever, and cruel. He got his nickname from the Green Berets who worked with him in the Highlands of South Vietnam in the 1960s. "You've got to take the bad with the good," one Special Forces captain explained. "And...- $10.95
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Author:Daniel Ford
Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and in turn won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited...- $14.95
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Author:Daniel Ford
Incident at Muc Wa: A Story of the Vietnam War
This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack, and the...- $12.95
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Author:Daniel Ford
Looking Back From Ninety: The Depression, the War, and the Good Life That Followed
A remarkable memoir of growing up poor during the Great Depression and the Second World War. The son of immigrants, the author was the first member of his family to go to college, working his way and winning the occasional scholarship. Next came four...- $14.95
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Author:Daniel Ford
Michael's War: A Story of the Irish Republican Army, 1916-1923
When he set out on his road to rebellion, Michael Ford only wanted to keep the foxes out of Hannon's Glen. But before he was done, he found himself exchanging rifle fire with the British army, with an unlikely ally in the form of...- $12.95
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Poland's Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and Exile
The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened. It began in September 1939, with Hitler's Wehrmacht invading Poland from the west, while Stalin's Red Army stormed in from the east. Among their victims was a five-year-old named Basia Deszberg. The Russians...- $14.95
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Author:Daniel Ford
Remains: A Story of the Flying Tigers, Who Won Immortality Defending Burma and China from Japanese Invasion
When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two American fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force, with their English and Burmese girlfriends, and a Japanese...- $12.95
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Tales of the Flying Tigers: Five Books about the American Volunteer Group, Mercenary Heroes of Burma and China
"What God abandoned, these defended / And saved the sum of things for pay" - In the bleak winter of 1941-1942, no American or British force could stem the tide in Southeast Asia, as the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore fell to the victorious...- $12.95
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The Lady and the Tigers: The story of the remarkable woman who served with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China, 1941-1942
Olga Greenlaw kept the War Diary of the American Volunteer Group--the Flying Tigers--while those gallant mercenaries defended Burma and China from Japanese aggression during the opening months of the Pacific War. Returning to the United States in 1942, she wrote The Lady and the...- $12.95
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Author:Daniel Ford
The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam
It's the summer of 1964. The bush hat, not the steel helmet, is the favored headgear of the sixteen thousand American advisors in South Vietnam. They love their work, and they're very good at it. How can they possibly fail?Covering their war are a...- $12.95
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