Military

The Annals Of History Are Littered With Horribly Bad Military Leaders. These Combat Incompetents Found Amazing Ways To Ensure Their Army's Defeat. Whether I...

What Does It Mean To Serve? Bestselling Author Jody Mitic Brings Together Veterans And Active Military Personnel From Across Canada To Tell Us, In Their Own...

Jack Swaab joined the veteran 51st (Highland) Infantry Division on 3 January 1943. He kept a series of diaries over the following two and a half years, reco...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

The powerful memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11, and one of the most respected military leaders...

An absorbing study of the duels fought between the US Navy's escort warships and Hitler's U-boats between December 1941 and May 1945. Although the Battle ...

Now Available In Paperback And Written By The Author Of The Official British Military Analysis Of The Iraq Campaigns, Blood, Metal And Dust Is The First Aut...

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theater.Volume Two il...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade ...

The Astonishing But True Story Of One Of The Most Notorious Spy Cases From The Cold War--and The International Manhunt That Seized Global Attention As It Re...

Since The Publication Of The First Edition Of Why Air Forces Fail, The Debate Over Airpower's Role In Military Operations Has Only Intensified. Here, Eminen...

What Does It Take, Both Physically And Mentally, To Join The World’s Most Respected—and Feared—military Units? Lewis Looks At The Origins, Training, T...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the deadly herald of a new era, co...

A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest d...

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air...

The U.S. Marines' 1942 invasion of Makin is chronicled in full detail, from the role played by the president's son to the capture of Japanese documents to t...

A transcendent history/memoir of one family’s always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia. On a midsummer day in 1937, a black car pulled up ...

Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewr...

The Korean War -- America's forgotten war -- was one of our country's most brutal, claiming the lives of American soldiers at more than three times the rate...

The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese c...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.On...

Explore the unprecedented nature of modern Total War as First World War outlines the origins, experiences, and legacies of World War I throughout and beyond...

The National Bestseller About One Soldier’s Battle Against The Taliban And For His Own Future A Hill-times Book Of The Year Captain Robert Semrau’s Mili...

“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important stor...

Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued wi...

Compelling account of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union The Soviets expected to crush Finnish forces in mere days, but the Finns broke the...

"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was th...

In This Riveting Account, Journalist Stanton Recreates The Miseries And Triumphs Of Specially Trained Mounted U.s. Soldiers, Deployed In The War-ravaged Afg...

The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacif...

This Fascinating Title Offers A New Study Of The Loss Of Six British Ships During The Falklands War Of 1982. Based On New Evidence Released Following Freedo...

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest...

The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy line...

The Inspiring Story Of Two Pioneering Suffragette Doctors Who Ran The Only Military Hospital Staffed Entirely By Women During World War I -- And Who Transfo...

"... the definitive analysis of the battle of Chippawa. Donald Graves establishes its historical background, describes the opposing armies, brings them int...

This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising, and even humorous, th...

Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and no...

The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller'. (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has eve...

david Herrmann's Work Is The Most Complete Study To Date Of How Land-based Military Power Influenced International Affairs During The Series Of Diplomatic ...

WINNER, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2006, MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICAForeword by baseball legend Jim Morris, former Major League pitcher with the...

This is the first-hand account of Rudolf's Vrba's experience as a registrar in the prison camp as well as the story of his daring escape. Categories: Hist...

Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth & Charles W. Sasser Hardcover Pocket BooksCategories: History MilitaryVietnam War

The Sensational True Story Of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's Greatest Flying Ace, Who Above All The Rest Showed A Nation The Way Forward In Its Quest For Spe...

if You Know The Enemy And Know Yourself, You Need Not Fear The Result Of A Hundred Battles. If You Know Yourself But Not The Enemy, For Every Victory Gain...

Using Recently Declassified Evidence O'keefe Provides New Explanations For The Motives Behind The Raid On Dieppe. The Canadian Albatross -- A Very Special B...

Acclaimed journalist Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest gene...

D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on June 6, 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men from America, C...

Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't fo...