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Lone Survivor Lone Survivor is a 2013 American biographical war thriller film based on the 2007 non-fiction book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Set during the war in Afghanistan, the film dramatizes the unsuccessful United States Navy SEALs counter-insurgent mission Operation Red Wings, during which a four-man SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team was tasked to track down and kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Written and directed by Peter Berg, it stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana.
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Marcus Luttrell Marcus Luttrell, (born November 7, 1975) is a former United States Navy SEAL who received the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for his actions in June 2005 against Taliban fighters during Operation Red Wings. Luttrell was a Hospital Corpsman First Class by the end of his eight-year career in the United States Navy.
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Anton Myrer Anton Olmstead Myrer (November 3, 1922–January 19, 1996) was a United States Marine Corps veteran and a best-selling author of American war novels that accurately and sensitively depict the lives of United States Army officers while in combat and in peace time. His 1968 novel, "Once An Eagle", written at the peak of the Vietnam War, is required reading for all Marines and is frequently used in leadership training at West Point. The novel, considered a classic of military literature and a guide to honorable conduct in the profession of arms, has been compared favorably to Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus "War and Peace". Ten years after publication, "Once an Eagle" was made into a television mini-series starring Sam Elliott. Glenn Ford played a supporting character.
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The War Within (Woodward book) The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006–2008) is a non-fiction book by "Washington Post" reporter Bob Woodward that was released by publisher Simon & Schuster on September 8, 2008. It is the fifteenth book written by Woodward, the fourth in a series of books about President George W. Bush and his administration's foreign policy including "Bush at War", "Plan of Attack", and "State of Denial". The book discusses the debate within the administration about the controversial Iraq "surge" strategy implemented in 2007. Simon & Schuster editor Alice Mayhew said in an official statement that “There has not been such an authoritative and intimate account of presidential decision making since the Nixon tapes and the Pentagon Papers. This is the declassification of what went on in secret, behind the scenes.”
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Timothy Hallinan Timothy Hallinan (born 1949) is an American thriller writer, based in Southern California and Southeast Asia. In the 1990s, Hallinan created the erudite private eye Simeon Grist, who appeared in a total of six novels, all set in Los Angeles. The series was widely and well reviewed, with some titles appearing on critics "Ten Best" lists for the year in which they appeared, such as that of the Drood Review of Mystery, but did not achieve widespread popularity. Hallinan returned to publication in 2007 with a second series, set in Bangkok, where he has lived off and on since the early 1980s. The new series features a rough-travel writer named Philip ("Poke") Rafferty, who has settled in the Thai capital and is in the process of trying to cobble together a family comprising Rose, the former go-go dancer he loves, and a precocious street urchin named Miaow. The first book in the series is "A Nail Through the Heart" (William Morrow). In 2011 he launched a third series starring Junior Bender, private detective to Los Angeles' underworld elite.
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Delivered from Evil Delivered From Evil (ISBN  ) is a non-fiction book about World War II written by Robert Leckie, an American author of popular books on the military history of the United States.
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Allegiance (novel) Allegiance is a novel set in the "Star Wars" galaxy released in January 2007 by Del Rey. The book was written by Timothy Zahn.
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Body of Lies (novel) Body of Lies is an American spy thriller novel by David Ignatius, a columnist for "The Washington Post". It was published by W. W. Norton in 2007. It was originally titled "Penetration" but was renamed after Warner Bros. bought the rights in 2006. It was made into a film of the same name in 2008.
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James Blake Miller James Blake Miller (born July 10, 1984) is a United States Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War, who fought in the Second Battle of Fallujah and was dubbed the "Marlboro Man" (and the "Marlboro Marine") after an iconic photograph of him with a cigarette was published in newspapers in the United States in 2004. Miller suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after the war.
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Steven Callahan Steven Callahan (born 1952) is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor noted for having survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft. Callahan recounted his ordeal in the best-selling book "" (1986), which was on the New York Times best-seller list for more than 36 weeks.
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Brad Colbert Brad Colbert (born July 25, 1974) is a United States Marine, best known for his platoon's role in and perception of the 2003 invasion of Iraq which was featured in a series of articles in "Rolling Stone" by Evan Wright. Wright was an embedded reporter who rode in the backseat of Colbert's vehicle during this time until his departure on May 4, 2003. Wright later expanded these articles into the book "Generation Kill" which was turned into a HBO miniseries of the same name in which Colbert was portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård.
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Digital Fortress Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.
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Guantánamo: America's War on Human Rights Guantánamo: America's War on Human Rights is a 2004 book by British investigative journalist and author David Rose.
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Navy SEALs (film) Navy SEALS is a 1990 American military action film, directed by Lewis Teague, written by Chuck Pfarrer and Gary Goldman, and produced by Brenda Feigen and Bernard Williams with consultant William Bradley. The film stars Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer.
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The Navigator (Cussler novel) The Navigator is the seventh book in the NUMA Files series of books co-written by best-selling author Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos, and was published in June 2007. The main character of this series is Kurt Austin.
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John Loftus (author) John Joseph Loftus (February 12, 1950) is an American author, former U.S. government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and president of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Loftus also serves on the Board of Advisers to Public Information Research. Loftus is a author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including "The Belarus Secret" and "The Secret War Against the Jews", both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.
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A Most Wanted Man A Most Wanted Man is a thriller/espionage novel by John le Carré published in September 2008 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in October 2008 by Scribner in the United States.
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The Short-Timers The Short-Timers is a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Gustav Hasford, about his experience in the Vietnam War. It was later adapted into the film "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) by Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick. Hasford's novel "The Phantom Blooper" (1990) is a sequel to "The Short-Timers". The book was supposed to be the first of a trilogy, but Hasford died soon after completing its sequel and before writing the third installment.
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (ISBN  ) is a 2002 non-fiction book by journalist Chris Hedges. In the book, Hedges draws on classical literature and his experiences as a war correspondent to argue that war seduces entire societies, creating fictions that the public believes and relies on to continue to support conflicts. He also describes how those who experience war may find it exhilarating and addictive. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and a "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of the Year, as well as a national bestseller.
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Year at Danger Year at Danger is a 2007 independent documentary. Nine days after getting married, Steve Metze found out he was being deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Metze, a West Point graduate, Desert Storm veteran, and documentary filmmaker, decided to pack a camera and document his year in Iraq. The film consists of footage shot by Metze during his deployment to Iraq and was edited by Don Swaynos.
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Klopka Klopka (English: The Trap, Serbian: Клопка, "Klopka") is a 2007 psychological thriller directed by Srdan Golubović, based on the novel of the same name, written by Nenad Teofilović.
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The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force The Wild Blue - The Novel of the U.S. Air Force, by historian Walter J. Boyne and Steven L. Thompson, was published in 1986.