Query: American non-fiction non-political book about the United States military
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
For Cause and Comrades
Confederates in the Attic
Thieves of Baghdad
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
A Glimpse of Hell (book)
Absolutely American
The Destructive War
Evidence from documents: For Cause and Comrades: The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and covers the lives and ideals of American Civil War soldiers from both sides of the war.
Confederates in the Attic: '''''Confederates in the Attic''''' (1998) is a work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the American Civil War and investigates the ties in the United States among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously.
Thieves of Baghdad: a non-fictional account written by Col. Matthew Bogdanos about the quest to recover over a thousand lost artifacts from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad after the country's counter-invasion.


=== Story of tracking down stolen objects ===
Mary Chesnut's Civil War: an annotated collection of the diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut, an upper-class planter who lived in South Carolina during the American Civil War. The diaries were extensively annotated by historian C. Vann Woodward and published by Yale University Press in 1981. For his work on the book, Woodward was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History.
A Glimpse of Hell (book): a nonfiction book of investigative journalism, written by Charles C. Thompson II and published in 1999. The book describes the USS ''Iowa'' turret explosion that took place on April 19, 1989, and the subsequent investigations that tried to determine the cause. The explosion aboard the United States Navy battleship killed 47 of the turret's crewmen.
Absolutely American: Absolutely American'' received general acclaim from book critics. In ''Time'', novelist and critic Lev Grossman wrote that it was "fascinating, funny, and tremendously well-written
The Destructive War: "A fascinating history of the ideas held by the people who fought the war…