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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...

In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of h...

All Quiet On The Western Front : Through The Eyes And Mind Of A German Private, The Reader Shares Life On The Battlefield During World War I.Categories: Ref...

A daring adventure of SAS man, Nigel Ely's journey into war with the United States Marine Corps and his subsequent arrest by British police in 2012. He is t...

The Cold War Was Initiated In Canada In 1945 By The Dramatic Defection Of Igor Gouzenko, A Soviet Cipher Clerk. This Event Marked The Start Of Over Four Dec...

Describes how the Luftwaffe emerged as the world's most powerful air force only 16 years after the Allies banned any form of German air force. Covers earlie...

In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the hear...

though The 'scythian Period' In The History Of Eastern Europe Lasted Little More Than 400 Years, The Impression These Horsemen Made Upon The History Of Th...

He was the only soldier the Canadians executed in the whole of the Second World War. His own countrymen carried out the orders, forbidden to go home before ...

With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. In...

"An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." --Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on...

Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact, covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases (twelve per volume) that have shaped American constit...

A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatl...

Photographs By Michael Collopy ; Edited By Michael Collopy And Jason Gardner ; Foreword By Walter Cronkite.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politi...

The Soviet Union was hardly the first large, continuous, land-based, multinational empire to collapse in modern times. The USSR itself was, ironically, the ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning conflict journalist C.J. Chivers follows the arcs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the experiences of those who fought t...

This Instant New York Times Bestseller—“a Jaw-dropping, Fast-paced Account” (new York Post) Recounts Seal Team Operator Robert O’neill’s Incredibl...

Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April – June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando Brig...

"All the King's Men" is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark,...

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution challenges a version of history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that the Quiet Revolut...

Studies the effects of the Vietnam War on West Point's class of 1966 and on the academy, recounting the loss of idealism that prompted many to leave their m...

military Rule And The Martial Tradition Of The Samurai Dominated Japanese Culture For More Than Eight Hundred Years. According To Thomas Cleary—translator...

Comprehensive yet concise, America’s Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but see...

From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War\“Brillia...

In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the next six mo...

Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has decla...

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...

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Seco...

In The Early Hours Of July 13, 1942, The Men Of Reserve Police Battalion 101, A Unit Of The German Order Police, Entered The Polish Village Of Jozefow. They...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeMovie Tie-in EditionWhen All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one...

Margaret Macmillan. Originally Published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [497]-544) And Index.Categories: Po...

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...

Blind Man's "Bluff meets The Hunt for Red October" in the shocking untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the height of the Cold War - and the f...

NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller "An irresistible history of the WWII Jewish refugees who returned to Europe to fight the Nazis.” —Newsday They were young Jew...

Based On The Acclaimed Hbo Documentary, The Astonishing True Story Of How One American Couple Transported Fifty Jewish Children From Nazi-occupied Austria T...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six ...

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most r...

In The Fall Of 1780, After Five Frustrating Years Of War, George Washington Had Come To Realize That The Only Way To Defeat The British Empire Was With The ...

Collects the dramatic, true-life accounts of the remarkable underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of NUMA volunteers--a group dedicated to ...

In A Shocking And Deeply Disturbing Tour De Force, David Rieff, Reporting From The Bosnia War Zone And From Western Capitals And United Nations Headquarters...

The American Revolution Was Not Inevitable, Nor Was It A Unanimous Cause. It Pitted Neighbors Against One Another, As Loyalists And Colonial Rebels Faced Of...

On a late September day in 480 B.C. Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ...

Describes The Diplomatic Minuets And Military Brinkmanship As Germany Grew To Be A Continental Superpower At The End Of The Nineteenth Century And Became A ...

This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in techno...

Originally Printed In 1935, War Is A Racket Is General Smedley Butler's Frank Speech Describing His Role As A Soldier As Nothing More Than Serving As A Pupp...

The definitive history of the Samurai, by acclaimed author of Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior The inspiration for the Jedi knights of Star Wars an...

The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel Amer...

Ken Bell. Maps On Lining Papers. Bibliography: P. [4]Categories: HistoryMilitary