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Book Description: Zenith Press. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 076032087X. Bookseller Inventory # Z076032087XZN

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Book Description: Zenith Press. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 076032087X. Bookseller Inventory # Z076032087XZN

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Book Description: Zenith Press, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. May have minor shelfwear, cover mar or bumped corner. - May have label on cover and/or remainder mark. **Please feel free to contact us for exact postage pricing on multiple-item orders.** *Note that large or heavy items may incur additional shipping charges.*. Bookseller Inventory # mon0000762154

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Book Description: Zenith Press, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New. No remainder marks. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; 1.5 x 9.1 x 6.1 Inches; 400 pages; It's one thing to write an appreciative history of the Pentagon that hews to the official viewpoint and rarely deviates from orthodoxy. It's another to write an account that pulls no punches and genuflects to nobody, that respects no authority higher than the absolute truth. David Alexander has written such a book. He has practically singlehandedly ferreted out the ground truth that makes up both literal and figurative foundations of The Building. He has written the truth when the truth was noble, and he has also written the truth when it was less than noble. But he has always upheld the truth as his only guide. David Alexander has also brought his keen and discriminating eye for lyrical prose to his account of the Pentagon, truly making this outstanding work of nonfiction "history as the novel, the novel as history."Alexander has also departed from a standard chronological approach to narrative history. In tackling as large and ambitious a project as The Building, Alexander developed a writing plan that replaced an easy and often-used sequential storyline approach with a more complex narrative scheme that was designed to give far greater scope and depth to the narrative he envisioned for his book. It seemed the only approach worthy of a subject as large, as timely, as challenging and as supremely important as the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the global wars in which these icons of military power and global reach have played key and decisive strategic roles. In telling the Pentagon's story Alexander abandoned the strict chronological storytelling format characteristic of other works and wove together a tapestry in prose that drew on disciplines ranging from the technicalities of the building construction trades, to the secrets of stealth warfare, to the intricacies of foreign policy, to the stratagems and behind-the-scenes gambits of international leadership, to the workings of the defense firms that together make up the global defense sector. Nor has he left out detailed coverage of the diverse personalities from Franklin Roosevelt to Robert Gates who envisioned, built and guided the actions and policies of the Pentagon from its origins to its present day operations, and who have launched it into the future. Bookseller Inventory # 38343

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Book Description: Zenith Press, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Brand New with Dustjacket - No Remainder Mark - Multiple Copies Available - Same or next day shipping. Bookseller Inventory # 9780760320877

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Book Description: Zenith Press, 2008. Alexander, David. Book Condition: New. Ships from our UK warehouse within 48hrs. Bookseller Inventory # X0000ON2DV

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Book Description: MOTORBOOKS INTL, 2008. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780760320877

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Book Description: Motorbooks International, United States, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 228 x 152 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The Pentagon has been called good and evil by many people, but for those who work there it is simply "The Building". This instantly recognizable five-pointed structure covers twenty-nine square acres of recovered swamp land, has five stories, and six million feet of floor space. From the beginning there has been more to the Pentagon than merely concrete and steel, and this is the inside story of the men and women who have walked the corridors of power and brought this building to life. From General George Marshall, and Secretary of War Henry Simpson - both charged with defeating Germany and Japan in World War II - to the whiz-kid generation bought in by Robert McNamara under John F Kennedy to combat the Communist threat, up to modern times and the restoration after the 9/11 attack, this book details the progress of this extraordinary building: the personalities, a full analysis of the politics at work both inside and outside the building, and the evolving role that the Pentagon plays in National Security - a story inextricably linked to the story of strength and power not only in America but across the world. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780760320877

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Book Description: Zenith Press. Book Condition: BRAND NEW. BRAND NEW Hardcover Publisher List Price= $28 A Brand New Quality Book from a Full-Time Bookshop in business since 1992!. Bookseller Inventory # 594169

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