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Tell Them Yourself: It's Not Your Day to Die

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Graverson SP. Ahead of Print. (Book Review)

Frank Butler, Kevin O'Connor, Jeff Butler. Tell Them Yourself: It's Not Your Day to Die. Breakaway Media; May 2024. 304 pages, hardcover. ISBN: 79-8-9902257-0-1.

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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Graverson SP. 23(3). 101 - 101. (Book Review)

Mark Bowden. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Warfare. 1999. 400 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5558-4604-6 (EB)

The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

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Graverson SP. 23(2). 122 - 122. (Book Review)

O'Neill, Robert. The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior. New York, NY: Scribner, Publisher: 2018. 368 pages. ISBN-10: 1501145037/ISBN-13: 977-1-5011-4503-2

The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes

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Graverson SP. 23(1). 127 - 127. (Book Review)

Anthony Sadler; Alek Skarlatos; Spencer Stone; Jeffrey E. Stern. The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes. 2018. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-61039-734-6 (EB)

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi

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Graverson SP. 22(4). 130 - 130. (Book Review)

Zuckhoff M; With the Annex Security Team. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi. Twelve; 2015. 352 pp. ISBN: 9781455538447

What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars

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Graverson SP. 22(2). 167 - 167. (Book Review)

Wood D. What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars. Little, Brown Spark (November 1, 2016); 304 pages; ISBN 978-0-316-26414-3

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

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Graverson SP. 22(1). 141 - 141. (Book Review)

Purnell S. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. Viking; Illustrated edition (April 9, 2019); 368 pp; ISBN 978-0-7352-2531-2

Guerrilla Surgeon: A Thing of the Past or Warning to the Future?

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Lyon RF. 21(1). 125 - 125. (Book Review)

Rogers L. Guerilla Surgeon: A New Zealand surgeon's wartime experiences with the Yugoslav Partisans. Collins: January 1, 1958. ASIN: B000S5M92O. Hardcover.

I Was a Stranger

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Farr WD. 20(4). 141 - 141. (Book Review)

Hackett JW. I Was a Stranger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company; 1978. ISBN: 0-395-27087-1 and ISBN-13: 978-0395270875. 220 pages, hardback.

Resistance Operating Concept (ROC)

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Farr WD. 20(3). 158 - 158. (Book Review)

Fiala OC. Resistance Operating Concept (ROC). MacDill Air Force Base, FL: The Joint Special Operations University Press; April 2020. 283 pages, softback. ISBN 978-1-941715-43-7.

Secret Surgeon

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Farr WD. 20(2). 150 - 150. (Book Review)

Sava G. Secret Surgeon. London, UK: William Kimber; 1979. ISBN-10:0718300068; ISBN-13:978-0718300067.

No Crown of Laurels: An Account of the Author's Plastic Surgery on Resistance Leaders and of Their Adventures

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Farr WD. 20(2). 150 - 150. (Book Review)

Borodin G. No Crown of Laurels: An Account of the Author's Plastic Surgery on Resistance Leaders and of Their Adventures. London, UK: Werner Laurie, Ltd; 1950. ASIN:B0000CHO0V; OCLC:316094528. 224 pages, hardcover. Sava G. No Crown of Laurels. London, UK: Werner Laurie, Ltd; 1950. ASIN:B0000CHO0V.

Medicine and the American Revolution How Diseases and Their Treatments Affected the Colonial Army

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Farr WD. 20(1). 147 - 147. (Book Review)

Reiss O. Medicine and the American Revolution: How Diseases and Their Treatments Affected the Colonial Army. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company; 1998. ISBN 978-0-7864-2160-2. Paperback, 280 pages.

Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars

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Farr WD. 19(4). 127 - 127. (Book Review)

Darden JT, Henshaw A, Szekely O. Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press; 2019. ISBN 978-1-62616-666-0. 112 pages.

Female Special Forces Agents in World War II Europe: D-Day at 75

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Farr WD. 19(3). 128 - 129. (Book Review)

Rose S. D-Day Girls. The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II. New York: Crown; 2019. ISBN 978-0-451-49508-2. Loftis L. Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy. New York: Gallery Books; 2019. ISBN 1-5011-9865-6. Purnell S. A Woman of No Importance. The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Viking Press; 2019. ISBN 978-0-7352-2529-9 Stevenson WS. Spymistress. The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II. New York: Arcade Publishing; 2007. ISBN 978-1-61145-231-0. Stevenson WS. Spymistress. The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II. New York: Arcade Publishing; 2007. ISBN 978-1-61145-231-0. Olson L. Madame Fourcade's Secret War. The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler. New York: Random House; 2019. ISBN 978-0-8129-9476-6.

"The Gun & the Scythe" and "The First Marauder": The Passions of an Army Ranger

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Esposito A. 19(3). 130 - 131. (Book Review)

Ryan L. The Gun & the Scythe: Poetry by an Army Ranger. Independently published (April 17, 2019). ISBN-10: 1717858341. ISBN-13: 978-1717858344. Ryan L. The First Marauder: Book I of III. Independently published (August 3, 2018). ISBN-10: 1091476454. ISBN-13: 978-1091476455.

Ray Banta's War: A Combat Surgeon in World War II China

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Farr WD. 19(2). 138 - 138. (Book Review)

Clark JE Jr. Ray Banta's War: A Combat Surgeon in World War II China. Middletown, DE: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2015. ISBN-10: 1515171256 and ISBN-13: 978-1515171256. Paperback: 264 pages.

Body Cavity Bombers: The New Martyrs. A Terrorism Research Center Book

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Farr WD. 19(2). 141 - 141. (Book Review)

Bunker RJ, Flaherty CJ. Body Cavity Bombers: The New Martyrs: A Terrorism Research Center Book. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse LLC, 2013. Paperback: 350 pages. ISBN 978-1-4917-0310-3.

Military Medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Review

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Quinn JM. 19(2). 139 - 140. (Book Review)

Greaves I, ed. Military Medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Review. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, CRC Press, 2019. Paperback, 687 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-8153-7759-7. Available in paperback, hardback, eBook, and eBook rental.

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

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Farr WD. 19(1). 133 - 133. (Book Review)

Bergman R. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. New York, NY: Random House; 2018. Hardcover: 784 pages. ISBN-10: 1400069718, ISBN-13: 978-1400069712.

Dadland

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Farr WD. 18(4). 157 - 157. (Book Review)

Carew K. Dadland. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press; 2016. 420 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8021-2514-9/978.0.8021-9038-3.

The Mosul Trauma Response: A Case Study

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Farr WD. 18(3). 134 - 135. (Book Review)

Spiegel PB, Garber K, Kushner A, Wise P. The Mosul Trauma Response. A Case Study. The Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Research; February 2018; 140 pages.

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

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Farr WD. 18(2). 147 - 147. (Book Review)

Statiev, Alexander. The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2013. Paperback: 386 pages. ISBN-10: 1107616476; ISBN-13: 978-1107616479.

The Death of The Golden Hour and the Return of the Future Guerrilla Hospital

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Neal CA. 18(1). 155 - 156. (Book Review)

Farr, Warner D. "Rocky." The Death of The Golden Hour and the Return of the Future Guerrilla Hospital. MacDill Air Force Base, FL: Joint Special Operation University (JSOU) Press; 2017. 72 pp. Dr Farr's monograph is available from JSOU Press Publications: http://jsou.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=37706446

The Quiet Soldier: On Selection With 21 SAS

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Farr WD. 18(1). 157 - 157. (Book Review)

Ballinger, Adam. The Quiet Soldier: On Selection With 21 SAS. Orion Books, Ltd.: London, United Kingdom, 1992. Paperback, 240 pages. ISBN 1-85797-158-2.

Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism

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Farr WD. 17(4). 138 - 138. (Book Review)

Ignatieff, Michael. Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 1995. Paperback: 276 pages. ISBN-10: 0374524483 and ISBN-13:978-0374524487.

War Reminiscences by the Surgeon of Mosby's Command

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Neal CA. 17(3). 152 - 153. (Book Review)

Aristides Monteiro. War Reminiscences by the Surgeon of Mosby's Command. London, UK: Forgotten Books; 2015. 236 pp.

Front Line Surgery A Practical Approach

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Farr WD. 17(3). 151 - 151. (Book Review)

Martin MJ, Beekley AC, editors. Front Line Surgery: A Practical Approach. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media; 2011. Paperback, 554 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4419-6078-8.

Guerrilla Warfare on the Amber Coast

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Farr WD. 17(2). 164 - 164. (Book Review)

Tauras KV, Cherne L. Guerrilla Warfare on the Amber Coast. New York, NY: Lithuanian Research Institute, Voyages Press; 1962. Hardback, 121 pages. ASIN: B06XGNDM5K (ISBN-10: 1258496593 / ISBN-13: 978-1258496593 for newer reprints). Review by COL (Ret) Warner "Rocky" D. Farr, MD, MPH

Opposition to Soviet Rule in Lithuania, 1945-1980

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Farr WD. 17(1). 133 - 133. (Book Review)

Remeiki, Thomas. Opposition to Soviet Rule in Lithuania, 1945-1980. Chicago, IL: Institute of Lithuanian Studies Press; 1980. Hardback, 680 pages. ASIN: B0006COSGE

Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism

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Farr WD. 16(4). 126 - 126. (Book Review)

Ignatieff, Michael. Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 1995. Paperback: 276 pages. ISBN-10: 0374524483 and ISBN-13:978-0374524487.

One Up: A Woman in Action With the S.A.S.

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Farr WD. 16(4). 127 - 127. (Book Review)

Ford, Sarah. One Up. A Woman in Action With the S.A.S. London, UK: Harper Collins Publishers; 1997. ISBN-10: 000638837X and ISBN-13: 978-00063883711997. 288 pages.

Special Forces: A Unique National Asset Through, With, and By

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Farr WD. 16(3). 97 - 97. (Book Review)

Boyatt, Mark D.
Special Forces: A Unique National Asset. Through, With, and By.
Denver, CO: Outskirts Press; 2016. ISBN-10: 1478766395 and ISBN-13: 978-1478766391. 578 pages.

Modern Irregular Warfare in Defense Policy and as a Military Phenomenon

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Farr WD. 16(2). 115 - 115. (Book Review)

English Edition: von der Heydte, Friedrich August Freiherr. Modern Irregular Warfare in Defense Policy and as a Military Phenomenon. New York, NY: New Benjamin Franklin House; 1986.
ISBN: 0-933488-49-1. 299 pages.

German Edition: von der Heydte, Friedrich August Freiherr. Der moderne Kleinkrieg als wehrpolitisches und militärisches Phänomen. Würzburg, West Germany: Holzner-Verlag; 1986.
ISBN-10: 3925725032/ISBN-13: 978-3925725036. 312 pages.

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

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Forsten RD. 16(2). 116 - 116. (Book Review)

McChrystal, Stanley; Collins, Tantum; Silverman, David; Fussell, Chris. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Westminster, London, UK: Portfolio; 2015. 304 pages.
ISBN-10: 1591847486, ISBN-13: 978-1591847489.

Faust's Gold: Inside the East German Doping Machine

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Farr WD. 16(1). 125 - 125. (Book Review)

Ungerleider, Steven. Faust's Gold. Inside the East German Doping Machine.
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2001. 249 pages. ISBN 0-312-26977-3.

Vietnam 1968-1969: A Battalion Surgeon's Journal

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Farr WD. 15(4). 126 - 126. (Book Review)

Holley, Byron E. Vietnam 1968-1969. A Battalion Surgeon's Journal.
New York: Ivy Books, 1993. 211 pages. ISBN-10: 0804109346/ISBN-13: 978-0804109345.

Knife Edge: Life as a Special Forces Surgeon

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Farr WD. 15(3). 120 - 120. (Book Review)

Villar, Richard. Knife Edge. Life as a Special Forces Surgeon.
Windmill Hill, United Kingdom: Vineyard Press; 1997.
Paperback, 310 pages, ISBN 0-9542203-0-7.

Winged Scalpel: A Surgeon at the Frontline of Disaster

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Farr WD. 15(2). 147 - 147. (Book Review)

Villar, Richard. Winged Scalpel. A Surgeon at the Frontline of Disaster.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Pen and Sword Book Limited; 2013.
Hardcover, 224 pages. ISBN-10: 1781591687 ; ISBN-13: 978-1781591680.

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

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Farr WD. 15(2). 148 - 148. (Book Review)

Balko, Radley. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces.
New York, NY: Public Affairs; 2013. Paperback 2014. ISBN 978-1-61039-457-4.

Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits: How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World

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Farr WD. 15(1). 130 - 130. (Book Review)

Arquilla, John. Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits: How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher: 2011. Hardcover: 336 pages.
ISBN-10: 1566638321/ISBN-13: 978-1566638326.

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

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Farr WD. 14(4). 139 - 139. (Book Review)

Chenoweth, Erica, and Stephan, Maria J. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. West Sussex, England: Columbia University Press; 2011.
Paperback, 320 pages, 11 figures, 19 tables. ISBN: 978-0-231-15683-7. $22.00/£15.00.

The Daring Dozen: Special Forces Legends of World War II

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Farr WD. 14(3). 121 - 121. (Book Review)

Mortimer, Gavin. The Daring Dozen: Special Forces Legends of World War II.
Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing; 2012. Hardcover, 304 pages.
ISBN-10: 184908842X/ISBN-13: 978-1849088428.

Dark Invasion - 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

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Farr WD. 14(2). 105 - 105. (Book Review)

Howard Blum. New York: HarperCollins; 2014. 491 pages. ISBN: 978-0-06-23075-5.

Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

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Farr WD. 14(1). 103 - 103. (Book Review)

Don H. Doyle, Editor. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press; 2010. Paperback: 392 pages.
ISBN-13: 978-0820337128

Behind the Lines: A Critical Survey of Special Operations in World War II

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Hester RA. 14(1). 104 - 105. (Book Review)

Michael F. Dilley. Casemate; 2013. Hardcover: 280 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-612001-83-8. eIBN: 978-1-612001-84-5.

The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran

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Farr WD. 13(4). 121 - 122. (Book Review)

David Crist. New York, NY: The Penguin Press; 2012. 638 pages. ISBN: 1-59420-341-1. $36.00.

I Remember Nothing More: A Doctor's Powerfully Moving Memoir of Her Struggle to Save the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

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Farr WD. 13(3). 109 - 109. (Book Review)

Adina Blady Szwajger. I Remember Nothing More. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster; 1988.
205 pages. ISBN 0-671-76038-6.

Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

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Farr WD. 13(2). 75 - 75. (Book Review)

Max Boot. Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present.
New York: Liveright Publishing Company; 2013. 784 pages. ISBN-10: 0-87140-4249/
ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-424-4.

War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History

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Farr WD. 13(2). 75 - 76. (Book Review)

Robert B. Asprey. War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History. Two volumes.
Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company; 1975. 1496 pages. ASIN: B002JNCB1C.

War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History. Two Thousand Years of the Guerrilla at War From Ancient Persia to the Present. Revised and updated. New York: William Morrow and Company; 1994.
1322 pages. ISBN 0-688-12815-7.

Atlas of Conducted Electrical Weapon Wounds and Forensic Analysis

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Bollard GA. 13(1). 73 - 73. (Book Review)

Jeffrey D. Ho, MD; Donald M. Dawes, MD; Mark W. Kroll, PhD
Springer, 2012, 204 pages.

Guardian Angel: Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force

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Hester RA. 13(1). 72 - 72. (Book Review)

William F. Sine
Casemate Publishers. 9/19/2012. ISBN-13: 9781612001227

Aid and Comfort to the Enemy: A Surgeon's View of the War in Iraq

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Hester RA. 12(3). 77 - 77. (Book Review)

Timothy Floyd, MD
Artbook Press, 2010.

In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets

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Myatt CA. 12(3). 78 - 79. (Book Review)

Richard Strozzi Heckler
Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. 1992. ISBN 1-55643-116-3. Review by LTC Craig A. Myatt

Green Ghosts

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Hester RA. 12(2). 103 - 103. (Book Review)

Lt Col W.C. Floyd USMC (Ret)
iUniverse, 2004, 2006

The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment

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Hester RA. 12(1). 76 - 77. (Book Review)

Zierler, David
University of Georgia Press, 2011. ISBN-0820338265, 9780820338262. 252 pages.

The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland

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Farr WD. 12(1). 77 - 77. (Book Review)

Karl E. Meyer
Public Affairs Press: New York, NY. 2003. ISBN-13: 978-0756791940, Hardback. 252 pages.

Broken Bodies/Shattered Minds: A Medical Odyssey from Vietnam to Afghanistan

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Hester RA. 11(4). 79 - 80. (Book Review)

Ronald J. Glasser, MD
History Publishing Co LLC, August 2011. ISBN: 9781933909479. 280 pages.

Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War

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Gephart WJ. 11(3). 63 - 63. (Book Review)

Andrew M. Bell
Louisiana State Univ Press, Baton Rouge, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8071-3561-7. Hardback,192 pages.