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"To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: assume a fake identity, intentionally get captured and sent to the new camp, and then report back to the underground on what had happened to his compatriots there"--Jacket flap.

Contains profiles of modern American women in the United States military who have broken through the glass ceiling and performed extraordinary feats, including Tammy Duckworth, Heather Wilson, Vivian Crea, and more.

When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit fraternity of soldiers, cops, lawyers, and spies. Together, these men have broken down the cultural and institutional boundaries among their respective agencies to engineer a new, network-centric way of fighting: one that uses a seamless web of intelligence analysts, high-tech information networks, and Special Forces units to take the fight to America's enemies as never before.

Provides biographical profiles of exceptional U.S. military leaders, tracing the careers and leadership styles of men including George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and Colin Powell.

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Chronicles the life of TC Koo--Koo Teh Chang--who grew up with a father who was a diplomat in Chinese legislation and a grandfather who was the Premier of China.

Centurions Macro and Cato head to the Eastern edges of the Empire in the first century A.D., where the peace and safety of Rome are threatened by a takeover attempt by long-standing enemy Parthia.

Presents the inside story of a small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who determined to revolutionize the United States military and reshape twenty-first-century military policy.