On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arli...
Robert M. PooleCreated toward the end of our greatest national crucible, the Civil War, Arlington Cemetery — as revealed in On Hallowed Ground — reflects much of America's history over the past century and a half. The mansion at its heart, and t...
A Short History of the Civil War: Ord...
Fletcher PrattBest one-volume history brings the events, figures, and battles of monumental conflict vividly to life. Absorbing details of military campaigns, battlefield strategies and personalities revealed in an audacious style that carries read...
Operation Garbo: The Personal Story o...
Juan PujolJuan Pujol Garcia, better known as Garbo, was perhaps the most influential spy of World War II. By feeding false information to the Germans on the eve of the D-Day landings he ensured their absence in great numbers from Normandy's bea...
Battle Story: TET Offensive 1968
Andrew RawsonThe Viet Cong campaign that shook the United StatesBy January 31, 1968, the U.S. had been fighting the Vietnam War for more than 10 years, but the American people never thought they wouldn't win. The Tet Offensive changed all that....
Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-...
W. Craig ReedFew know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the Cold War. Now, in this riveting new history, W. Craig Reed provides an eye-opening, pulse-pounding account of the underwater ...
The Gamble: General Petraeus and the ...
Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S...
The Generals: American Military Comma...
Thomas E. RicksAn epic history of the decline of American military leadership-from the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks has made a close study of America's military leaders for three decades, and in TheGenerals, he chronicles the wide...
The Generals: American Military Comma...
Thomas E. RicksFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble comes an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. History has been kinder to the American generals of World War II --...
The Generals: American Military Comma...
Thomas E. Ricksb[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble comes an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. History has been kinder ...
Bringing the Thunder: The Missions of...
Gordon Bennett Robertson JrBy March 1945, when Ben Robertson took to the skies above Japan in his B-29 Superfortress, the end of World War II in the Pacific seemed imminent. But although American forces were closing in on its home islands, Japan refused to surr...
Now in paperback: Linda Robinson's intimate, exclusive-and New York Times best-selling- account of the most secretive and elite soldiers in the U.S. Army today Army Special Forces soldiers have been at the forefront of America's count...
Honor and Betrayal: The Untold Story ...
Patrick Robinson"Written in an even-keeled, reportorial style, the book tells a story that certainly needs to be told. Guaranteed to raise eyebrows and spark debate."-BooklistHonor and Betrayal is a no-holds barred, riveting account of t...
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great W...
Eugene RoganIn The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict...
While Men Slept . . .: . . . His Enem...
Karen Frazier RomeroWhile Men Slept . . . IS A WAKE-UP CALL TO THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA EXPOSING THE ENEMY WITHIN OUR MIDST . . . THEY HAVE PROMISED TO SILENTLY INFILTRATE OUR COUNTRY USING IMMIGRATION IN ORDER TO MULTIPLY THEIR VOTES, SECURE ALL POLITICA...
The Naval War of 1812: A Complete His...
Theodore RooseveltAlthough only 23 years old at the time of publication, Theodore Roosevelt made his mark as a military scholar with this detailed analysis of naval combat between the United States and Great Britain from 1812–15. Engagingly written a...
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the ...
Sarah RoseNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untoldhistory of theheroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, cou...
Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Ric...
John F. RossThe sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into ...
Where the Birds Never Sing: The True ...
Jack SaccoIn this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II as seen through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco -- a farm boy from Alabama who w...
Hellcats: The Epic Story of World War...
Peter SasgenThe incredible true story of nine Hellcat submarines assigned to penetrate the dense minefields protecting the sea of Japan. In 1945-with no knowledge of the development of the atomic bomb- American submarine commanders, desperate to ...
None Left Behind: The 10th Mountain D...
Charles W. SasserA devastating ambush in Iraq, kidnapped soldiers, and the men who wouldn't leave their comrades behindThe 10th Mountain Division is known as the most deployed unit in the U.S. Army. Today, the War on Terror has drawn it to Afghanis...
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons,...
Eric SchlosserA myth-shattering expose of America's nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, ex...
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill a...
Jonathan Schneer[Read by Matthew Brenher]In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the king reluctantly appo...
For Love of Country: What Our Veteran...
Howard SchultzA celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and National B...
For Love of Country: What Our Veteran...
Howard SchultzA celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front. Because so few of us now serve in the militar...
In the Jungle... Camping with the Ene...
W. James SeymourDuring the Vietnam War, when conventional warfare tactics weren't proving enough to eliminate Communist insurgency, the U.S. Army implemented small unit operations to take a new kind of fight to the enemy. Five to six man Long Range P...
On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story o...
Hampton Sides"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceeding...
The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon ...
Bill SloanThe Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, it focuses on the fateful days when the Korean War's most de...
Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes i...
Larry SmithThis first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor. This New York Times best-selling account of battlefield courage celebrates the larger-than-life sacrifice...
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story o...
Sherry SontagOriginally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Blind Man's Bulffis a dramatic, and riveting history. Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew inte...
Step Forward the Hero: The Story of M...
Donald SpiveyThe biography of Milton L. Olive, III, the first African American awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War. We learn not just about Milton Olive the individual, but about the special challenges of an African American coming of a...