Military

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning bio...

"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."--The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and t...

The “impeccably researched and thrillingly told” (Globe and Mail) story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France histo...

Describes The Massive Soviet Cold War Effort To Manufacture, Stockpile, And Deploy Biological Weapons. Publisher Description: For Fifty Years, While The Wor...

The Magna Carta Is Revered Around The World As The Founding Document Of Western Liberty. Its Principles--even Its Language--can Be Found In Our Bill Of Righ...

In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Leebaert tells the stories of small forces that have triumphed over vastly larger ones and changed the course of...

Throughout History, The Concept Of Command - As Both A Way To Achieve Objectives And As An Assertion Of Authority - Has Been Essential To Military Action An...

John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separa...

From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about warIn 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl M...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth...

Published to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, and accompanying the television series of the same name, Andrew Williams has created a...

Inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, Scandinavian rulers and German military monks conquered and settled Finland, Estonia and Prussia, before turning...

“A compelling portrait of a man once serenely confident, searching decades later for self-understanding.”—Richard Holbrooke, The New York Times Book Revie...

this Is The Face Of War As Only Those Who Have Fought It Can Describe It.—senator John Mccain Fallujah: Iraq S Most Dangerous City Unexpectedly Emerged As...

What Would The Founders Think? We Live In A Divided America That Is Currently Incapable Of Sustained Argument And Is Feeling Unsure Of Its Destiny. Joseph J...

They came together in the summer of 1942. It was as good a rifle company as any in the world. Here is the story of E Company -- men who went hungry, froze,...

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Arm...

Now in paperback, and following her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, here is a ...

'meticulously Researched And Beautifully Written, The True Story Of A Japanese American Family That Found Itself On Opposite Sides During World War Ii--an E...

Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines --...

The real history of the Amazons in war and love Amazons―fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world―were the mythic archenemies of the ...

This is a fascinating 2008 study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls...

Get Out! Run! We Must Leave This Place! They Are Going To Destroy This Whole Place! Go, Children, Run First! Go Now! These Were The Final Shouts Nine Year-o...

An Accessible New Translation Considers The Author's Lifetime And The Context Of His Work In Light Of The Warring States Period, Providing Two Copies Of 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 ...

The New York Public Library, in looking back on the greatest books of the past century, called Churchill's history "monumental" and said that the author "d...

Examines how space technology is being used for espionage, discusses the clashes between the Air Force and the CIA for control of the vast system, and detai...

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rh...

In Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so sho...

Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives...

A retelling of the April Fool's day invasion of Japan in 1945 by a U.S. Marine veteran offers a perspective of the eighty-three-day battle from American and...

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang ...

As A Seal Sniper And Combat Veteran, Webb Was Tapped To Revamp The U.s. Naval Special Warfare (seal) Scout/sniper School, Incorporating The Latest Advances ...

Reviews The Individuals, Tactics, And Events Involved In Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery's Plan To End World War Ii. Operation Market-garden, September...

Elite sniper Jody Mitic loved being a soldier. His raw, candid, and engrossing memoir follows his personal journey into the Canadian military, through snipe...

The Relationship Between Eleanor Roosevelt And Associated Press Reporter Lorena Hickok Has Sparked Vociferous Debate Ever Since 1978, When Archivists At The...

In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wi...

Product Description From the preserved remains of the mighty Przemyśl fortress to the underwater wreckage of German warship SMS Scharnhorst near the F...

Based on historical ninja training manuals, this witty and informative volume gives you all the tools you need to enter the secret world of ninjutsu. Ninja...

On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as a...

Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden — just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat — Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childh...

By Ronald H. Bailey And The Editors Of Time-life Books. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 171-172) And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingl...

Oxford-educated historian Farrell's sequel to Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops and his best-selling book series on suppressed technology, Nazi survival and pos...

For Frederick The Great, The Prescription For Warfare Was Simple: Kurz Und Vives (short And Lively) - Wars That Relied Upon Swift, Powerful, And Decisive Mi...

This Book Focuses On The Strategic And Operational Dimensions Of The Campaigns Of The Civil War, Showing How Such Factors As Generalship, Organization, Inte...

The Question Of Whether America Should Get Into World War Ii Led To One Of The Largest And Most Consequential Political Feuds In Our History. The British Go...

Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an ...