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The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson

by Desmond Ryan [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[13.Dec.07] :. Atkinson's earlier work, An Army at Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2003, and, if anything, The Day of Battle is even more engrossing.

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The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[15.Oct.07] :. In the inimitable manner that the famously ambitious author constructed his first sort, The Coldest Winter comes at you not like one but two of the actual tanks that rumble across its pages.

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The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. The Vietnam experience invades Halberstam's account of the Korean War.

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The Changing Face of War by Martin Van Creveld

by Chris Barsanti

[27.Apr.07] :. Van Creveld shows that all the U.S. military's technological prowess hasn't helped much in the current war, and in fact often helps distance its soldiers from the conflict they should be waging.

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