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The way of Rōnin : defying the odds on battlefields, in business and in life / by Lam, Tu,author.;
A gripping memoir detailing Tu Lam's life, from his childhood as a Vietnamese refugee, his military career as a decorated Green Beret, his time as an underground MMA fighter, to becoming the basis for Call of Duty's Ronin character.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lam, Tu.; United States. Army. Special Forces; Refugees; Soldiers; Vietnamese Americans;

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare : the mavericks who plotted Hitler's defeat / by Milton, Giles,author.; Milton, Giles.Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men--along with three others--formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Gubbins, Colin, Sir, 1896-1976.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Intelligence officers; Espionage, British; Sabotage; Guerrilla warfare;

Death is our business : Russian mercenaries and the new era of private warfare / by Lechner, John,author.;
Featuring exclusive interviews with over 30 of its members, 'Death is Our Business' is the shocking inside story of how the Wagner Group rose to make private military companies inextricable from Russia's anti-Western foreign strategy.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Prigozhin, Yevgeny, 1961-2023.; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Mercenary troops; Private military companies;

Code talker / by Nez, Chester,author.; Avila, Judith Schiess,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Nez, Chester.; United States. Marine Corps; Marines; Navajo code talkers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Navajo; World War, 1939-1945;

Countdown Bin Laden : the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice / by Wallace, Chris,author.; Weiss, Mitch,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Subjects: Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011; Special operations (Military science); Special operations (Military science);

Waging a good war : a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / by Ricks, Thomas E.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A new history of the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on its nonviolent use of military tactics and strategy"--
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Biographies.; Personal narratives.; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Military art and science; Nonviolence; Strategy.; Tactics.;

War is a force that gives us meaning / by Hedges, Chris.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Hedges, Chris.; Military history, Modern; War (Philosophy);

Women warriors : an unexpected history / by Toler, Pamela D.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, Women Warrior reclaims lost stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor, debunking the pervasive claim that women do not, and should not, fight"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Women and war.; Women soldiers;

Pelosi / by Ball, Molly,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political journalist Molly Ball. She's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It's a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party-even though, as speaker under President Barack Obama, she deserves much of the credit for epochal liberal accomplishments from universal access to health coverage to allowing gay people to serve openly in the military. How did a 79-year-old Italian grandmother become the greatest legislator since LBJ? Ball's nuanced, page-turning portrait takes readers inside the life and times of this historic and underappreciated figure. Based on exclusive interviews with the Speaker and deep background reporting, Ball shows Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens to explain how this extraordinary woman has met her moment"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Pelosi, Nancy, 1940-; United States. Congress. House; Legislators; Politicians; Women legislators; Women politicians;

Honey bus : a memoir of loss, courage and a girl saved by bees / by May, Meredith,author.;
Includes bibliographical resources."Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; May, Meredith.; Bee culture; Women beekeepers; Women journalists;

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