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Listener Essay - The Retreat

Dan New — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:50:00 +0000

Dan New is a combat Vietnam Veteran and an artist who loves to write and photograph as expression of his life.

"Beyond War" by David Rohde

Joe Donahue — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:10:00 +0000

In Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Rohde distills eleven years of expert reporting into a call for change.

An incisive look at the evolving nature of war, Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons.

"Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution" by Nathaniel Philbrick

Joe Donahue — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord.

"Operation Storm" by John Geoghegan

Joe Donahue — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II tells the riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time.

John Geoghegan has written extensively about aviation history, underwater exploration and marine engineering for The New York Times Science Section, Smithsonian Air & Space, WIRED, Popular Science, Aviation History, Military Heritage, Flight Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine.

"Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic" by Mark L. Donald

Joe Donahue — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:12:00 +0000

As a SEAL and combat medic, Mark Donald served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable.

His new book, Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic, immerses the reader in the unique life of the elite warrior-medic and describes his triumph over Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that threatened to destroy him and his family.

"Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Joe Donahue — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:35:00 +0000

The author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, tells the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the US’s political and military misadventure in Afghanistan in his new book, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan.

In this meticulously reported and illuminating book, Rajiv Chandrasekaran focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of President Obama’s surge, and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the president and a military that increasingly went its own way.

"Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse

Joe Donahue — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Drawing on more than a decade of research in secret Pentagon files and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Nick Turse reveals for the first time how official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded. In shocking detail, he lays out the workings of a military machine that made crimes in almost every major American combat unit all but inevitable.

His book is Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

"Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons" by Ward Wilson

Joe Donahue — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Ward Wilson is a senior fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has spoken before governments and at think tanks and universities on the issue of Nuclear Weapons.

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

Joe Donahue — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:10:00 +0000

A Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a military historian, Max Boot is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. His new book is: Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present.

"No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan"

Joe Donahue — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:12:00 +0000

In a remote, enemy-held valley in Afghanistan, a Special Forces team planned to scale a steep mountain to surprise and capture a terrorist leader. But before they found the target, the target found them…