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Missionaries by Phil Klay
Booksplease Price: $19.38'Expansive, explosive and epic' Marlon James'A courageous book' New York Times Book ReviewA BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign... -
Missionaries by Phil Klay 9781984880673
Booksplease Price: $38.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880673Author Phil KlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Redeployment by Phil Klay 9780143126829
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $24.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126829Author Phil KlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Redeployment by Phil Klay 9781786899064
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'Powerful' Barack Obama'Searing' New York TimesHow do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend?How does it feel to see fear in your wife's eyes?What does it mean to come home? In one of... -
Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil Klay 9780593556412
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $54.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593556412Author Phil KlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher... -
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Winner of the Waverton Good Read Award 2017Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2017Imagine if your whole life changed in... -
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker 9780571325832 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $4.31Winner of the Waverton Good Read Award 2017Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2017Imagine if your whole life changed in... -
Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction by Michael O'Connell
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.82Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in... -
The War Comes with You: Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy Stacey Peebles 9781643365152
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.44How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever? In the post-2011 surge of war stories published in America and Iraq, the defining characteristic is the depiction... -
The War Comes with You: Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy by Stacey Peebles 9781643365145
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $155.97How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever? In the post-2011 surge of war stories published in America and Iraq, the defining characteristic is the depiction... -
Guantanamo Diary: The Fully Restored Text by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.69Now a major motion picture called The Mauritanian 'A vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka' JOHN LE CARREThe first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now... -
The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A man sits collect-calling strangers every day just to hear the sounds of the outside world; an inmate recalls his descent into addiction as his prison softball team gears up for an annual... -
Guantanamo Diary: The Fully Restored Text by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 9781786891853 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.04Now a major motion picture called The Mauritanian 'A vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka' JOHN LE CARREThe first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now... -
Spoils by Brian Van Reet 9781784704322
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS FICTION AWARD 2017*It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in... -
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers 9780316219341
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316219341Author Kevin PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher... -
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature Dr. M. C. Armstrong 9798765112854
Booksplease Price: $64.13Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror stated... -
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature Dr. M. C. Armstrong 9798765112861
Booksplease Price: $200.53Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror stated... -
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary... -
A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat... -
Plain Murder by C. S. Forester
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Taking us into a 1930s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafes and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S. Forester's second crime novel, is a brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal of the dark... -
The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country by Steven Moore 9781469673950
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.85As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it... -
Civilwarland In Bad Decline by George Saunders
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34THE 2017 MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDOIn his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the... -
Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan by Miles Lagoze 9781668000038
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.93"The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war" (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary... -
The Right Kind of Crazy: My Life as a Navy SEAL, Covert Operative, and Boy Scout from Hell by Clint Emerson
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $26.75Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL and author of the bestselling 100 Deadly Skills, presents an explosive, darkly funny, and often twisted account of being part of an elite team of operatives whose... -
Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature by Joshua Pederson 9781501755873
RRP: $77.70Booksplease Price: $61.78In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional... -
Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction by Michael O'Connell 9781531503451
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $133.41Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in... -
The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq by Owen W. Gilman 9781496815767
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39Owen W. Gilman Jr. stresses the US experience of war in the twenty-first century and argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent... -
Head of Household Oliver Munday 9781668078303
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.62A powerful, singular collection of short stories depicting the evolving role of fatherhood in contemporary society-perfect for readers of Jamel Brinkley's A Lucky Man and Phil Klay's Redeployment... -
A Song from Faraway by Deni Ellis Bechard
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14With his first book, the Commonwealth Prize-winning Vandal Love, Deni Ellis Bechard "reinvented the generational novel with innovative brilliance" (Robert Olen Butler). In his second novel,... -
Aftermath: The Fallout of War - America and the Middle East by Carol McCusker 9780983308546
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $64.13Published in conjunction with a major exhibition, Aftermath: The Fallout of War--America and the Middle East captures the response of artists to the impact of war on people and their environments... -
Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Essential Short Stories by Andre Dubus III
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $40.05A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. "A writer," Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, "is a reader who is moved to... -
The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain" Morten Høi Jensen 9780300233742
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $44.04The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the... -
Jungle House by Julianne Pachico 9781800817616
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.30'Stylish, beautiful and strange' Jessie Greengrass Lena has always lived in the jungle with Mother. There they look after a holiday home in surroundings that burst with colour and crawl with... -
Why I Like This Story Jackson R. Bryer 9781640142145
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $51.49Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read, or re-read, the stories... -
How to Think Like an Officer: Lessons in Learning and Leadership for Soldiers and Citizens by Reed Bonadonna
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.50The U.S. military invests heavily in time and resources to train its officers to be leaders in the broadest sense - forming them not only in military art and science (strategy, tactics, command, etc... -
2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman 9781405966429
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A chilling geopolitical thriller and real-world cautionary tale presenting a dark yet very possible future of war between the US and China - from two former military officers and award-winning... -
If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened: The Life and Times of a Domestic War Correspondent Justin Glawe 9781588385734
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $35.91If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened offers one journalist's version of the truth about how we ended up here and how nasty, sad, and disturbing it really is. This is the real,... -
Why I Like This Story by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $86.79Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories... -
The Other Face of Battle: America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat by Wayne E. Lee
RRP: $53.53Booksplease Price: $51.62Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and... -
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.58Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize 'A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale' O Magazine In this vivid, darkly funny and beautifully rendered debut novel, Kirstin...